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okay so i'm trying to find a joke for my friend, to help explain to her how different Deaf is from deaf. the joke is a list of "you might be Hearing [with a capital H] if. . ." types of things. it's like a spoof on Deaf\deaf with Hearing\hearing. . . if anyone knows what i'm talking about...

i'll do an interview if you want. my name's jessi and i'm HOH\Deaf-identified with 1st percentile CAPD [a comprehension disorder]. idk if it's too late or not, but you can message me if you want. x x x j.

well, in the last year i've lost a bit of my hearing but a good deal of my comprehension [i'm 1st percentile disorded with a central auditory processing disorder] and i have to agree a little bit with all the hearies you've asked. it's not so much music i miss, but lyrics. i hear the music...

hey ryan! hope you have fun getting to know us all. =] x x x j.

wow, how did you communicate at school with friends\teachers? looks like you've found a story of when inclusion goes horribly wrong. . .it's called mainstreaming. =P x x x j.

WOW. kudos to you for managing to not go insane! i've heard that only like 30% of speech is able to be lipread, which can cause some pretty serious errors. . .i've made a few myself on my worse days. =P so did you use cued speech or homesign or anything, or just straightup lipreading? haha...

i'm trying to teach my [hearing] friend ASL. . .mostly so that she and i can communicate [we do this in chorus, when she's across the room in the soprano section trying to tell me something, but i can't lipread from that far away, so we use exaggarated sign.] but also because, with our chorus...

thanks! i'm hoping to become Deaf, though i'm only a little bit deaf. [that's my favorite thing to say to my friends. it confuses them so much. =P] x x x j.

okay, hi everyone. my name is jessi, i'm 15, and i live in CT, in a town with a population of, like, 2325 or something. it's small, trust me. i have tinnitus, and mild hearing loss [25db if i remember correctly] in my right ear and my hearing is literally on the 20db line in my left...