Do you feel sorry for any hearing loss

No.. I am glad to be HOH. However, it does scare me a little thinking about losing what is left of my hearing with little ASL experience and knowledge, which is why I have been trying to get into ASL classes around my area.
 
Bottesini said:
Do you think it is easier for deaf people who speak?


I don't.
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Botti, great post!!!!! I sure needed to hear this right about now. As soon as I speak almost everyone forgets that I am deaf.
 
Oink said:
No.. I am glad to be HOH. However, it does scare me a little thinking about losing what is left of my hearing with little ASL experience and knowledge, which is why I have been trying to get into ASL classes around my area.
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that's why you should look into ASL camps etc......I know a lot of people with progressive losses....losing their hearing didn't bother them, but being ill prepared for losing their hearing did!
 
Angel1989 said:
Botti, great post!!!!! I sure needed to hear this right about now. As soon as I speak almost everyone forgets that I am deaf.
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Yea, that's my problem too. It is like there are higher expectations put on me to hear better simply because I can speak well. That was a heavy burden to carry all of my life...trying to hear better when it was biologically impossible.
 
diehardbiker said:
I feel sorry? Nah! I am happy to be Deaf and strong ASL user. Zero skills with speaking and listening. Zero is best for me as I know.

However, in the last few years I start to open my eyes up and got curious about what I am missing out from Hearing world. What is it there that they considered extremely important and can't live without them. Whats so darn special about it? It does not make me want to be able to hear because I know for sure that if I were able to hear I would be in complete shock and will not be able to handle them.
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you got good english skill, im terrible at nzsl but weirdly i still believe in the value of NZSL, just not the way NZSL culture is portrayed, it's pissing me off no ending as you see. im a damaged goods from the 1970-1980's mainstreaming shiut...as soon as i finishe my MA or PhD id just just off the cliff as its just a useless peice of work but that's all i believed in, and other deafies in NZ are bunches of racist assholes, and unwittingly sports-driven dicheads like they have NO clue on politics, real bad, its themselves its getting harmed....and im DOing the bloody work for them!!
 
but...go back to OP's title...what hearing loss???it's more like oppurtunity lost to LEARN things but no...thanks to idiots who assumes its perfectly ok to try make us 'hearing-like'...its llike Dracula's will to make us a living dead...against our will - that's the same kind of evil i see...
 
its just mean oralism ALL OVER AGAIN


im amazed, we're never govem attention,,...why shall i do?? puke?
 
Taken a while for me to get to this point, but no I don't feel sorry for it. I had a long journey with this and will continue this journey and see where it takes me. I am open to new challenges and will try my hardest to not let them get the best of me.

I am struggling with learning ASL and I have only myself to blame as I am unable to devote enough time and attention to it. Now, when I have more time, I find I can't pay attention long enough.
 
Sometimes I feel sorry for myself that i became hard of hearing as an adult because there are so many frustrating moments, and I had to work so hard to learn asl , but I also open a new chapter and have a new part to my life and new friends. I am happy about that :)
 
I used to be a very happy deaf little girl from babyhood to almost 9 years old (8 1/2 years old) until I got into the hearing test and had my first hearing aid. I wish I could go back in time where there was no frustration and no forcing me to go through the mainstream schools. I was not happy in those schools. I had wished that I wanted to go into Deaf school where everyone can sign and that we would be comfortable and happy. But no, the stupid hearing Superintendent told my mother that I can not be in the Deaf school because I would pass with flying color and that I should remained in the mainstream school.

Living in the hearing world has made me upset, angry and frustration. It was bad enough not being able to find a job where they told me that I had to use the phone, even in my last college. I am very disappointed with the hearing society. :(

So I am not sorry because I am happy to be in the Deaf community and can do signs with them. This is my Deaf world, not my hearing world.
 
Frisky, just for clarification......you weren't asking if people felt sorry for themselves just because they have hearing loss were you?

You were asking if we felt sorry for deaf people that cannot communicate orally at all, and use ASL only right?
 
ambrosia said:
Frisky, just for clarification......you weren't asking if people felt sorry for themselves just because they have hearing loss were you?

You were asking if we felt sorry for deaf people that cannot communicate orally at all, and use ASL only right?
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Ditto...I was unsure of the question too and that's why I haven't answered.
 
Frisky Feline said:
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In that case, no...and I'm sure neither do they...I only feel sorry for people who allow the deaf community and forums such as this to make decisions for them and their family instead of relying on themselves and their own judgement.

Laura
 
I feel sorry for those who let a few bad experiences with the Deaf community blind them into thinking that everyone in the Deaf community are the same.
 
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