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Hello everyone.
My name is Desiree, I live in Ontario Canada. I am 28 years old, and have been deaf since birth. I wear one hearing aid in my left ear, and I barely sqeak into being able to understand speech. My right ear has practically no usable hearing. I was given speech therapy when I was a baby
Unfortunately, I was born in an era when specialists were pushing for oralism, so I was never given ASL lessons. What didn't help was that my parents were of the attitude that once I had my hearing aid, I was cured. Yeah, right.
However, in the last few months, I have been taking ASL classes, and am soaking it up like a sponge. I am loving it so much! I have always wanted to learn ASL, and had in fact picked up quite a few signs over the years. I have known the manual alphabet since I was about nine or ten.
Although I am mostly deaf, I have a love for music and musical instruments. I am able to hear just enough to enjoy classical, jazz, some rock, folk, celtic, bagpipes. I don't play, but I love musical instruments such as piano, drums, violin, cello, trumpet.
I have a degree as a Library Technician. As you probably have guessed by my name, I love reading and books. I could browse a library for days, never mind hours. I like reading historical fiction, some fantasy, drama, select horror. My non fiction reads include topics like autobiographies, animals, some medicine, paranormal, and of course history. I like reading about Scotland, as I am part Scottish and very proud of it.
Movies are another thing I enjoy immensly. I like medical dramas, documentaries, dramas, select comedy, and of course historical dramas. I have been able to enjoy them all the more thanks to my discovery of closed captioning.
I grew up in the country with many animal companions, so I have developed a love and appreciation for animals and nature. I've had dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs. My younger sister even had a pet frog at one point! I once had a whole tank of turtles, which I find very interesting creatures.
I hope to get to know some nice people on here!
My name is Desiree, I live in Ontario Canada. I am 28 years old, and have been deaf since birth. I wear one hearing aid in my left ear, and I barely sqeak into being able to understand speech. My right ear has practically no usable hearing. I was given speech therapy when I was a baby
Unfortunately, I was born in an era when specialists were pushing for oralism, so I was never given ASL lessons. What didn't help was that my parents were of the attitude that once I had my hearing aid, I was cured. Yeah, right.
However, in the last few months, I have been taking ASL classes, and am soaking it up like a sponge. I am loving it so much! I have always wanted to learn ASL, and had in fact picked up quite a few signs over the years. I have known the manual alphabet since I was about nine or ten.
Although I am mostly deaf, I have a love for music and musical instruments. I am able to hear just enough to enjoy classical, jazz, some rock, folk, celtic, bagpipes. I don't play, but I love musical instruments such as piano, drums, violin, cello, trumpet.
I have a degree as a Library Technician. As you probably have guessed by my name, I love reading and books. I could browse a library for days, never mind hours. I like reading historical fiction, some fantasy, drama, select horror. My non fiction reads include topics like autobiographies, animals, some medicine, paranormal, and of course history. I like reading about Scotland, as I am part Scottish and very proud of it.
Movies are another thing I enjoy immensly. I like medical dramas, documentaries, dramas, select comedy, and of course historical dramas. I have been able to enjoy them all the more thanks to my discovery of closed captioning.
I grew up in the country with many animal companions, so I have developed a love and appreciation for animals and nature. I've had dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs. My younger sister even had a pet frog at one point! I once had a whole tank of turtles, which I find very interesting creatures.
I hope to get to know some nice people on here!
...nice Introduction!....Welcome Aboard.
Take care and nice to meet you 
