CougarKat
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I signed up on this forum a long time ago... In 2009, A month after I got my bilateral CIs. I'm 23, engaged with 2 boys, I'm the only deaf one. I speak well, and sign. I currently live in Colorado, I started becoming deaf at the age of 2.5 years and it slowly progressed until I was 14, when I turned 14-18 years I lost big decimals of hearing until I was 92% deaf. I love to hear, so that influnced my decision to get the CI, both at the same time. I was raised mainstream my whole life. No one in my family is deaf, and none of them either learned sign. My parents tried to raise me as "hearing" Oral speaking only, they frowned on sign language and me being who I am.
Figured that would sum it all up, as a short introduction. I'd love to get to know other people. I don't have any deaf friends here because there wasn't a lot of HOH or deaf students when I grew up going to schools I did, I was majoritly mainstreamed. Hopefully the high school drama has been left behind here!
Btw. I'm Jennifer. Feel free to chat!
Figured that would sum it all up, as a short introduction. I'd love to get to know other people. I don't have any deaf friends here because there wasn't a lot of HOH or deaf students when I grew up going to schools I did, I was majoritly mainstreamed. Hopefully the high school drama has been left behind here!
Btw. I'm Jennifer. Feel free to chat!