Recent content by stormeing

seems both work, cuz it is oppressively burdensome ;-) - definitely want to drill in the oppression when talking tasks wholly outside my personal scope!

i have had to use it, i have migraine and cluster headache issues. i have had decent interpreters here and there, but i lose central vision with a severe headache and i struggle to be cogent, use all 'parts of speech'... horrible in that moment unless a hearing friend is there to monitor. my...

seems like a pretty common feeling, maybe more so for us introverts? i use ASL so i do connect with the signing community and have deep relationships with ASL users, but introverts like to have few, real, authentic, connections. i have other degrees of separation, 1) i have chronic...

like what?

mute isn't something we identify with, Deaf is good, some like Hoh, 'hearing loss' is a misnomer, i am not going to be finding it anywhere, hell, i ain't even looking :-) anywho, hola!

i seem to have been born deaf, EDS was a late Dx but i can see 3 generations evidentiated.

i am an EDSer too. genetic vascular as well as the hypermobile, not fun, but we are not alone! Deafhood seems to have been my route before birth, the other stuff just decorative.

i see this is an old, old posting, but i do have a fluctuation in hearing. i have almost always had it, waardensburg runs in my family, so the Deafhood wasn't an issue, but i have dark hair, dark eyes, my eyes aren't spaced like other's... i imagine i am recessive. i experience tinnitus though...