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Frisky Feline said:
Curious, anyone of you who have CI. Do you not mind if someone touches your head or hair where the scars position were?


Just curious.
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I think the OP was originally looking for the experience of CI users with regard to having the implant site touched, physically (she quickly clarified this to mean when someone strokes or hugs the person when bbb asked if she meant discomfort when the implant area is shown to others or physical touching).

So, Cloggy has a really good (and very much on-topic) point: IF the CI is on when hugging is going on, the issue of the CI engaging could be a factor if it's knocked off or aside in the process and someone is sensitive to that change. My daughter has described the first wearing the morning as being very loud initially, and then normalizing, and then, she says, she doesn't get the same startling effect each time it's on and off later in the day. But, since we've upgraded to the N5, she gets a beeping and sudden rush of loud sound at first every time she changes programs, from her everyday program to a music program, or to what we call her 'chaos' program (for loud restaurants, airplanes, concerts, etc.).

But if it's off, that wouldn't be the case. Again, my daughter loves the area around/over her implant being rubbed, she doesn't mention the scar down along the back of her ear -- which is in a different area from where we can feel the implant, itself -- as being either sensitive in any way or a place she wants me to touch (as she does the sides of her head: "that's my favorite!").
 
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AlleyCat said:
Oh, grow up already.

Thanks for continuing to derail this thread. You don't have any more right to be in this thread than those you are accusing of. Some of us are actually interested in reading this thread.
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Oh, grow up already.
"Continuing to derail"... :roll: ... I never started... I cannot continue, nor have any desire to start...
I'm interested in the thread and participating... How about you?
 
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Cloggy: have you missed something-actual experience with a Cochlear Implant is irrelevant. Do you have the "right thinking/ideology"?

Hasn't this been a constant in your 6 year interlude here?

Implanted A B Harmony activated Aug/07
 
Cloggy: have you missed something-actual experience with a Cochlear Implant is irrelevant. Do you have the "right thinking/ideology"?

Hasn't this been a constant in your 6 year interlude here?

Implanted A B Harmony activated Aug/07
 
Here we go with another derailed thread. Hearing parents jumping in to defend each other just because they are hearing parents; offering their perspective of what the OP was asking, when the OP was very clear about that; etc. I guess they get so used to answering for their children that they can't separate "CI user" from "parent of a CI user.":roll:
 
Cloggy said:
Oh, grow up already.
"Continuing to derail"... :roll: ... I never started... I cannot continue, nor have any desire to start...
I'm interested in the thread and participating... How about you?
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Participating as a CI user?
 
jillio said:
Here we go with another derailed thread. Hearing parents jumping in to defend each other just because they are hearing parents; offering their perspective of what the OP was asking, when the OP was very clear about that; etc. I guess they get so used to answering for their children that they can't separate "CI user" from "parent of a CI user.":roll:
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Here we go with another derailed thread. d/Deaf members jumping in to defend each other just because they are d/Deaf; offering their perspective of what the OP was asking, when the OP was very clear about that; etc. I guess they get so used to answering for d/Deaf children that they can't separate "CI user" from "d/Deaf person":roll:
 
Cloggy said:
Here we go with another derailed thread. d/Deaf members jumping in to defend each other just because they are d/Deaf; offering their perspective of what the OP was asking, when the OP was very clear about that; etc. I guess they get so used to answering for d/Deaf children that they can't separate "CI user" from "d/Deaf person":roll:
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Yep. This is a D/deaf forum.:cool2: D/deaf adults know more about the experiences of D/deaf children than any hearing person, parent or otherwise, ever could.
 
Cloggy said:
Here we go with another derailed thread. d/Deaf members jumping in to defend each other just because they are d/Deaf; offering their perspective of what the OP was asking, when the OP was very clear about that; etc. I guess they get so used to answering for d/Deaf children that they can't separate "CI user" from "d/Deaf person":roll:
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You really don't get it, do you?
 
jillio said:
Yep. This is a D/deaf forum.:cool2: D/deaf adults know more about the experiences of D/deaf children than any hearing person, parent or otherwise, ever could.
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:hmm: You are suggesting that the deaf adults on this forum without CIs know more about the experiences of my child than I do, know more about the experiences of Cloggy's child than he does, etc. ? That's not the case at all. Let's take this particular question. Frisky wants to know if it bothers CI users to be touched on the implant site, when hugged, stroked. Several CI users and several parents of those with CIs provided their or their child's input. I don't think that Deaf adults who have not had a CI can possibly know more about whether that part of the body is sensitive to touch than the parent of the child in question.

You can know your own experience as a child, and your insight can be helpful to someone growing up today. But, you don't know my child, you aren't in her environment, you aren't experiencing deafness in the same way she is. And any random d'Deaf person picked solely on the basis of the shared characteristic of being deaf can't possibly know what my child is experiencing better than her parents do. It's silly to suggest otherwise.
 
Cloggy said:
Here we go with another derailed thread. d/Deaf members jumping in to defend each other just because they are d/Deaf; offering their perspective of what the OP was asking, when the OP was very clear about that; etc. I guess they get so used to answering for d/Deaf children that they can't separate "CI user" from "d/Deaf person":roll:
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LOL. That was funny :P
 
GrendelQ said:
:hmm: You are suggesting that the deaf adults on this forum without CIs know more about the experiences of my child than I do, know more about the experiences of Cloggy's child than he does, etc. ? That's not the case at all. Let's take this particular question. Frisky wants to know if it bothers CI users to be touched on the implant site, when hugged, stroked. Several CI users and several parents of those with CIs provided their or their child's input. I don't think that Deaf adults who have not had a CI can possibly know more about whether that part of the body is sensitive to touch than the parent of the child in question.

You can know your own experience as a child, and your insight can be helpful to someone growing up today. But, you don't know my child, you aren't in her environment, you aren't experiencing deafness in the same way she is. And any random d'Deaf person picked solely on the basis of the shared characteristic of being deaf can't possibly know what my child is experiencing better than her parents do. It's silly to suggest otherwise.
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No, I'm not suggesting it at all. I am stating it outright.
 
jillio said:
No, I'm not suggesting it at all. I am stating it outright.
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Ah, well then, you are very much wrong there. There's not a person on this forum who can tell me more about what my daughter feels at her implant site than she can.

And I do not know more of a someone's hearing child's experiences than his or her Deaf parents do based solely on the commonality of being hearing.
 
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