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I'm still young... ! but I am a cook and cashier at a fast food restaurant (A&W). Primarily I work in the kitchen, but I've also been trained for the front. (The longest I've worked the front at a time was one day for 4 hours straight, so it's not really a regular thing.) Sometimes it comes to...

If you're writing a subjective essay about it, then my own answer would be no, deaf people are not disabled. It's just a question of the Other - the dominant culture sets the definitions for everything and this goes for pretty much all cases, not just hearing/deaf. Interpretator mentioned the...

Might have gotten meningitis, which can be caused by drug allergies/chemical irritation...?

this has nothing to do with deafness, but i just wanted to say that I am really glad you posted this about Freud. I just finished my first year at an art college and tried to create a manifesto of my artistic "beliefs", the reason/motivation behind my style which has a lot to do with childhood...

No that's a pretty big myth. I hear basically all sounds and I have a profound loss in my good ear (left) that I wear a really powerful digital BTE in. My hearing loss was progressive and I was not born/early deafened, so I probably receive more benefit from my aid than other people who were...

i personally don't like to see people mouth things (preference, i mean). to me it just shows ASL dependency on english when really it is a language of itself and should exist that way. the only times I mouth words while signing are when i'm actually doing total communication and it's not in ASL...

you can remember some of the exceptions by this phrase: "Neither leisured foreigner seized the weird heights." (except "leisured" has an "ay" sound so you might as well exclude the word altogether. the word "financier" is also exempt.) also i think the "weird" spelling has something to do with...

i don't mean to drift from the topic that's ensued at this point, but going back to the original post, i have to disagree somewhat. maybe i missed the point entirely, i'm not really trying to stir a forum-wide debate or whatever, so just bear with me because i'm throwing out random thoughts. I...

I used to use a BAHA, i mean of course i still have the screw and whatnot haha. but I never wear it anymore. I was implanted because of ear drainage... then had a tympanomastoidectomy (i love that word).

yes i KWYM =)

CIs maybe but i completely disagree about wearing a hearing aid to bed. it's grossly unhealthy not to give your ear a chance to air out, since HAs use an ear mold and CIs don't. i had to be implanted with a BAHA hearing aid because my regular BTE was giving me way too many ear infections. i...

haha someone finally noticed! Marlee Matian, Marleen Matlin, Marlee Martlin... MAR-LEE MAT-LIN. have some deaf pride people, lol. (jk! :dunno2: )

What?! unfair! how did you get in trouble?!

i'm pretty sure the answer is Elsinore (in english, or Helsingor i guess) and that it is mentioned more than once in the play.

haha okay thanks for clarifying, I think my friend might have exaggerated a bit about the risks! =)

thanks!! I'm very thrilled! Assynt - sure, I think i could do that once I get a copy of the audiogram sent to me. i'll try to keep it in mind! =) good luck with your appointment with Dr W, he's a great doctor and he's operated on me like three times...! neecy - wow you really lucked out!! good...

i think that's one of the big things that they DO tell you about CIs haha. anyway, thanks everyone for clarifying all of this for me! =) about the metal detector thing - my friend always puts her CI in a box and lets it go through the conveyor belt x-ray thing. so could i like just take the...

i watch plenty of TV, mostly everything i come across is captioned. i usually avoid live TV... most live shows don't interest me in the first place, unless they are special things, like annual events. i rarely watch the news, for instance, since i just read the paper in the morning. but i do...

i'd appreciate it for sure. it's a nice gesture and i think it's just common courtesy. i think it applies to all languages. i have a hearing friend who is fluent in ASL and worked at an exhibition last summer serving root beer floats. a deaf customer came and ordered a drink in English and she...

i just gave my friend (who has a CI) the news that i'm getting a CI this summer. she got all excited and started telling me loads of things that i should expect after the surgery. a lot of it was stuff I alreay knew, but then there were some other little things, like removing the CI when you go...