witchiewormie
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Hello! My name is Juno, and I've been losing my hearing at a progressive rate since I was a young, young teenager. I'm nineteen at this point, and have lived with some kind of hearing loss from around the time I was thirteen. By this point, without my hearing aid I might as well be considered deaf in conversation.
I can hear that there is sound going on just fine, and to most extents can tell between each sound I hear. But, understanding speech at all without some kind of aid—or me lip reading and piecing the sentence together—is a moot point.
It's become to the point where I want to start making a major change in my life to not be as oral as myself or anyone around me is used to. It's something I wanted to do for a long time as someone who preferred ASL over English right off the bat, but was unable to do since I'm pretty much deprived from the Deaf community and know only hearing people.
I was wondering if anyone had any experiences with prolonged, progressive hearing loss and making a conscious decision to transition to a more accessible way of communication. How would I go about it besides simply urging others to learn ASL?
It's become terribly fatiguing to try and track conversations, hearing aid or not, so this really is becoming a necessity to me for others to learn, and for myself to stop trying to pretend to be a hearing person, because I'm just not one anymore.
I can hear that there is sound going on just fine, and to most extents can tell between each sound I hear. But, understanding speech at all without some kind of aid—or me lip reading and piecing the sentence together—is a moot point.
It's become to the point where I want to start making a major change in my life to not be as oral as myself or anyone around me is used to. It's something I wanted to do for a long time as someone who preferred ASL over English right off the bat, but was unable to do since I'm pretty much deprived from the Deaf community and know only hearing people.
I was wondering if anyone had any experiences with prolonged, progressive hearing loss and making a conscious decision to transition to a more accessible way of communication. How would I go about it besides simply urging others to learn ASL?
It's become terribly fatiguing to try and track conversations, hearing aid or not, so this really is becoming a necessity to me for others to learn, and for myself to stop trying to pretend to be a hearing person, because I'm just not one anymore.