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Yet another of my curiosity threads. I've been totally deaf for a few months now. That is to say, no technology in the world can offer me the ability to hear at this point. Since the last of my hearing slipped away into a fading memory, there has been no sound in my life, not even tinnitus...

Lately, I've been feeling like I have to remind myself to take each breath. There seems to be no pain or blockage that I know of. This is aside from times when I'm sick with bronchitis, of course, which would seem to be obvious. However, I'm wondering if this difficulty breathing has anything...

Though I don't technically qualify as late "sudden" deaf, my psychological preparation for a complete lack of audio input (or lack of it) seems to have left me with the psychological and possible physiological side effects of it. I asked my doctor about it, and he handed me a very small booklet...

Many of you have been good to me, so I decided it would be unfair of me to leave without a word other than a few posts that will probably be deleted in my absence on some obscure thread. I was, in fact, under medication when I made those posts last night, which were entirely against my...

I consider myself fluent in SEE because I have been encouraged to learn it for the purpose of communicating with my family. More boring details available in various other threads across AD. Over the past couple of months, I've been endeavouring to learn ASL. In an effort to attempt to aid...

If this is in the wrong place, hopefully it can be moved without issues :D I've been wondering if this kind of a thread would be interesting to anybody besides me, so I guess one way to find out is to create it and watch! :popcorn: (Okay, I'm supposed to come up with one myself, so I tried...

I need a quick concise sign or gesture for the concept of a basketball falling through the hoop without touching the rim, commonly known as "Swish!" or "Nothing But Net" things like that. Of course, I can wait until I become more fluent in ASL and come up with my own if nobody wants to tell me...

WARNING: Thread created by drugged post surgery patient! Read at your own risk! I'd like to make a thread about signing mythical or fantasy stories, mainly centred around specific signs, but any signs about myth, legend, lore, fantasy places, things, creatures. Unicorns, whatever. You...

I'm sorry, but I've been searching high and low for the meaning of this. I see it so often. I think it may be a few examples of the use of a classifier, but as far as I know, it's a series of related signs. Let me try to describe an example. If it's my classifier theory, it makes use of the...

(Note: If you're further away than 20,005km, you're not on the planet since Earth's circumference is less than 40,010km.)

I have been thinking about going to Gallaudet, and it's clear to me that SEE isn't gonna cut it there. I have very quickly become fluent in SEE, and am using it with some ASL and a touch of PSE to talk with my family, who are learning SEE (the mix is mostly with my sister, who is learning ASL...

What do you think would be your best career choice? Feel free to elaborate if you wish. You might consider things like minimal need for "special accomodations," what you might consider appropriate social needs met, attainability, good hours, and of course, comfortable income.

I have a hard time saying this. My mom told me yesterday that she hopes I don't turn out like "other deaf people." I probably sat there for a long time before I finally thought of something to say. I questioned what she meant by it, and she'd seen a TV show where some deaf people were pro...

I've seen a lot of people signing where if they're doing a one-handed sign, their other hand would be doing something to emphasise what they're trying to say or add emotion to it. I've even seen people combine two different one-handed signs, one with each hand, to make a compound meaning. Or...

Okay, this is getting a little harder now than it was at first. This is an issue I don't think I want professional help on, but I want personal experiences. Now, the doctor did tell me that I have no hearing left, but these past few days, I've been feeling like a really miss listening to music...

Is there any sign for mint? Any at all? In any language? Every dictionary I can find says to fingerspell it. I use the word MINT about 300 times a day. I don't wanna fingerspell it every time. If I can't find a sign for Mint, I'm gonna make one up :giggle: Oh, if I have a choice, I'm...

Please forgive the sarcasm. I'm not literally going into cardiac arrest every time my dad appears out of nowhere. Many deaf children as well as those who are non-verbal are born into a family that doesn't provide them with a source of developing language skills during a critical period along...

I'm learning ASL, but I'm afraid my family will be daunted with the idea of learning another language. I want to communicate with my family, so I want to provide them with an alternative that they will think is easier for them. A free online dictionary would be ideal. Don't get me wrong! ASL...

Hi. I posted a little bit yesterday, but I just thought I should introduce myself. I've been totally deaf for only a few months, but have been gradually losing my hearing for several years, and wore several different kinds of hearing aids over the years until they serve no purpose. I spent...