any other HOH person live with a HOH parent just losing their hearing?

Dannie

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My complication is huge, I've worn a hearing aid all my life.

I'am pretty much deaf without my hearing aid, and wish I didn't have to pay so much money to learn sign language. In Toronto there's no other way to learn apparently that I know of, and the Deaf aren't willing to teach, and the Cdn. Hearing Society only helps those that are deaf, and if your HOH they just label you with a bunch of quack labels.

Now my Dad who is 69 is still denying his hearing loss and refuses to wear a hearing aid.

The problem is that he either purposely can't hear me and then barks at me "or" he really can't hear me and always gives me shit!

Even when I answer him he shouts at me to answer his questions!
And this is happening now on a daily basis.

So when I ask Mom if I need to speak to him face to face so he can hear me, she outright almost bolted with anger in my face "Don't you dare ask him that", you need to think about moving out"!

So what I'am I to do?? I' live in Toronto and can't move into an apartment here because they're too dry and I have multiple chemical sensitivites, plus I'am not working. Meanwhile my parents want to just throw me out because Dad keeps hollering at me because he doesn't hear me! They wouldn't care if my health goes insane again and I can't afford food - actually they wouldn't even let me even go back to school years ago either!, every time I purchase something I also get in shit or yelled at and I'am 37.

I lived in another city once and was going back home and changed my mind but my Dad yelled like an ape on the phone so I moved home and he's just a total insane jackass! Has anybody else lived with this shit from their parents?

If I'am sane, and I know I am......this is wrong and normally this doesn't happen and he either really does have dementia and the family covers it up nicely and I'am still the rotten one, or it's just an excuse their doing to get me out of their house, and I used to be their daughter!

But then I'am the one with a hearing loss, and doesn't work so they shun me!
My old boyfriend from college even thought my parents were ashamed about me, but I really didn't see it back then - apparently they are and always have been. When they found out I was HOH, (I was three) they had to decide whether to keep me or send me back to Child Services from where they adapted me at 21/2 months.
 
I'm truly sorry to hear that, but my question to you is why does your dad always hollering at you even if he is unable to hear you?...
 
Because he really thinks I deserve the shit becasue he's mishearing me!

If I say absolutely anything to him, he's always asking me to repeat it or he makes up some completely different thing he thought I said and I still get in shit.
And I'am the only one he does this to! So I really think he's doing this purposely! But I mean how insane is that!

Then if I ever bring up do you need me to face you? Do you have trouble hearing my voice? But I am answering you and you keep yelling at me! I still get in shit!

This just isn't right!

I for one never shout or yell at people, just my Dad over the last two years since he visted the Cdn. Hearing Society has been acting this way, and my brother is tense too, and I also hate men so it's aggravates my hatred of men even more!
 
Hmm...Do you think he yells at you because he think you will be able to hear him if he was to speak louder?

I can understand how you feel, I hate it when some people yell or hollering at me, it sad to know that your dad treating you like this... :(
 
Well for the last 10 years I've been telling them that loud noises hurt me ear, so you can imagne who the slow learners are in the family.

I guess no one else has to put up with this shit.

How do you move out in Toronto when your on Disability and wouldn't have enough money to eat, and you react and have allergies to the food given at the food bank?
 
Man.. It sucks...... Lucky my best friend/Dad is HOH, and wears hearing aids, and have no problem because I am deaf, thank god.....

Just tell your dad how you feels...
 
My mother is HofH so she understands.
My grandmother (dad's mom) she has been more my mom
then my real mom. My dad..still has no clue sometimes although he
thinks he does.
My inlaws, I had a long talk with them. How it is for us.
About the deaf culture and no matter how hard they try
sure we may LIVE in the hearing world but we will always
remain part of the deaf culture (nothing can change that.)
I think sometimes hearing people may get alittle intimated,
like it's coming across that if you don't accept us we have somewhere
else to go (we don't have to be FORCED into the hearing world but
we have to tolerate living in it).
All I can say is talk, tell him how you feel. No one knows that better than
yourself. Trust me at times I wish I could just have all deaf family members.
I would get less (make her talk, and oh I think I have more to offer her talking then learning to "SIGN"."
Well I can say one thing, she is closer to my mother...wanna know why?
Because she SIGNS with her. She has that bond, that bond will carry her
and keep her until the end. I have that bond with deaf people, they are
part of who I am. I am part of who they are. Sure we may not always agree but we are all the same in that factor.

:hug: We face a lot of trials in this life. This is just one wall that
you won't be able to go over but through.

Get better on the other side thing (I mean once you are actually through it).
 
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