Wow. The Cochlear forum has some uptight people

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I joined the forum at cochlear and posted a blog with some humor about having an implant or hearing again. The purpose of the post was to start a place where we can share funny stories, jokes and ideas that have to do with having a CI and begging to hear things again. Humor is a great way to ease those moments someone asks questions about it. You know there are some people out there that if they see it might ask about it. I'm not talking about the jerks that are out there in the world. I'm talking about good people who just ask what it's like, if you like it, how long you've had it or perhaps they are ever thinking about getting on themselves.

So it's nice to share fun and funny things that might have happened. Like the first time hearing yourself pee in the toilet (It made me jump). I made a joke about how now that I have a magnet in my head I can find a girl with the implant so I can say I finally found a girl that can be "Attracted" to me.

Anyway I posted this blog there and the people acted like they where offended by it. Made comments like, "Many of us here work hard to hear again and you're making fun of it". Well, I'm one of them that's working hard to hear again too. I just got activated on the 22 of last month and I can have a sense of humor about it. What's wrong with having a sense of humor about life?

So be warned. I'll stick to alldeaf. We aren't so uptight over here.

Ron Jaxon
 
hmm weird..that sucks sorry u had a bad experience there..i am apart of the forum as well but have had nothing but kindness on the forum
 
I chuckled at your joke about the attraction. It was funny. I guess these people haven't accepted their deafness. So they work so hard to be hearing.

Or it is because you are new, and they think you are just another troll who came to mock them or something. who knows? But you can tell if they are truly uptight by how they post with regular members.
 
RonJaxon said:
I joined the forum at cochlear and posted a blog with some humor about having an implant or hearing again. The purpose of the post was to start a place where we can share funny stories, jokes and ideas that have to do with having a CI and begging to hear things again. Humor is a great way to ease those moments someone asks questions about it. You know there are some people out there that if they see it might ask about it. I'm not talking about the jerks that are out there in the world. I'm talking about good people who just ask what it's like, if you like it, how long you've had it or perhaps they are ever thinking about getting on themselves.

So it's nice to share fun and funny things that might have happened. Like the first time hearing yourself pee in the toilet (It made me jump). I made a joke about how now that I have a magnet in my head I can find a girl with the implant so I can say I finally found a girl that can be "Attracted" to me.

Anyway I posted this blog there and the people acted like they where offended by it. Made comments like, "Many of us here work hard to hear again and you're making fun of it". Well, I'm one of them that's working hard to hear again too. I just got activated on the 22 of last month and I can have a sense of humor about it. What's wrong with having a sense of humor about life?

So be warned. I'll stick to alldeaf. We aren't so uptight over here.

Ron Jaxon
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Ya Ron know what you mean. Did the same thing to me. Makes you feel like your the only Republican in a room full of Democrates. :bump:
 
I have met people like that in real life. My take is that they havent come to terms with their deafness and trying so hard to be hearing but failing. I used to be like that. It is sad.
 
Speaking of "Female Magnetic Attraction".. if 2 people with CIs were to put the magnets near each other, could you feel them attacting? (I would have thought they would repel since it would probably be ++ or --, not one person with + out and one person with - out)
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*EQL*
 
Well then you've got to line them up and test them one by one. The ones that attract you keep. The ones that repel you send home. :)

Another joke is that I call my CI my early warning device. Before I got one I didn't know if anyone passes gas until it was to late. :)
 
my audi was telling me about her old CI centre she used to work at in NY this doctor she put in this 2 year old girls electrode in backwards so the magnet is obviously the wrong way so the processor repelled when they tried putting it on as well as the electrodes are the wrong way as well. My audi said she hasn't followed up yet and if the dr is going to lose her career..she's done hundreds of CI surgeries and she screwed up baddddddd
 
Wow, that would be terrible. If just the magnet was backwards that could easily be fixed. But the electrodes to? Man, that would be terrible. A huge mistake.
 
ya the processors magnet polarity was reversed but they dunno whats gonna happen when they activate if it will work so she might need another op to get it fixed
 
Some people just have no sense of humour at all.
 
I just posted another thing about the Sound and Way Beyond software that comes with it. For those who aren't familiar it's a software for "hearing training". It's actually pretty cool and I like it. But I found a couple of bugs in it so I posted to share them. I wanted to let others who use it now of these "bugs" and also made a suggestion that I think would make the software even better. For instance in the "Training" part of level 3 for environmental sounds. The "Heart beat" is the wrong sound. It says the sound is a heart beat but it isn't. Had a hearing friend confirm this for me to make sure it wasn't just me. So I pointed that mistake out.

I also mentioned that it would be better is the sounds where closer to the same duration. For example the sound for a fax machine lasts over 30 seconds. The sound of a horse running only lasts about 3 seconds. This means that you could tell the difference between the sounds by how long they play rather then just what they sound like. So we can kind of cheat. And cheating won't help us learn to hear better. So I just suggested it might be better if they leveled the duration of the sounds a little better.

Anyway, most of the members replied with helpful replies. But then the "Uptight" ones showed up. One of them said this:

Well I guess this is another example of what I said last night Ron My magnets can't seem to pull this thru my brain. It just doesn't stick. There are going to be difficulties in learning things always. And this community is open to suggestions as Cochlear Corp. also is. There must be a kind way to do this that would help everybody, but yet not be insulting. I get the feeling there might be some anger mixed in here. You must learn how to direct that in a rational way. Would be more benefit to all working so hard at try to learn to hear again.
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Where the heck did I say anything "insulting" or suggest I was "Angry" about anything. I thought I was being helpful.
 
Glad that you're back here to share your jokes where they are appreciated! Life is too short to go through it with no fun or no sense of humor. A sense of humor is the only thing that keeps me sane sometimes!
 
RonJaxon said:
So it's nice to share fun and funny things that might have happened. Like the first time hearing yourself pee in the toilet (It made me jump). I made a joke about how now that I have a magnet in my head I can find a girl with the implant so I can say I finally found a girl that can be "Attracted" to me.
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:rofl2: Hilarious.

Ron, some people just don't have a sense of humor and probably never will. Some people do have a sense of humor but bar anything related to "disability" as bait for humor.

You just gotta let those people be who they are and find the ones of us that know how to laugh a little! :yesway:
 
About toliets and CI's-

Hearing a toliet flush for the first time with her implant was the moment she decided she loved it! It has been all uphill since then!
 
shel90 said:
I have met people like that in real life. My take is that they havent come to terms with their deafness and trying so hard to be hearing but failing. I used to be like that. It is sad.
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I agree. Any idea who made them feel that way? :|
 
Well, it took me a long time to come to terms with my deafness. I spent a few years in what I call "My cave". Avoiding any situation where I was around people talking and would feel left out. Then I finally came to terms with it and faced it head on. I got sick of things so I started looking for solutions to issues my deafness causes. But it took a long time to get there.

Id imagine many of them over there where never "deaf" but profoundly HOH. To them it's "I want my hearing back" instead of someone like me who has come to terms with being deaf. Yes, I just got my CI but I've spent almost 20 years of my life without sound at all.

So basically I think some of them have never became comfortable in their hearing loss and only think of it as a negative. The more they can hear the further they get from that "Negative". Any reminder of it makes them upset.

Then again. There are some who are just uptight Mr. or Ms. goodie two shoes. You know the kind of person who will open their front door and yell at the squirrels to "Get off my lawn!" :)

Ron
 
Frisky Feline said:
I agree. Any idea who made them feel that way? :|
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The environment I grew up in enabled me into believing that being deaf was a bad thing so I adopted that way of thinking that hearing people were superior than me. No more...fuck that shit.
 
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