Do You Remember Your First Time?

shel90 said:
Tell them if u cant CC, they cant have the volume on and everyone can watch TV without understanding the dialogue. That should be fair, right?

U can tell them that the volume bothers your hearing aids just as the CC bothers them. LOL!
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Shel, for years I tried everything, I get so fed up with having to fight with them.So I will get my own T.V. that way everybody can be happy.
 
Pepsi Lover said:
My family gets mad if I use CC.So I will be getting my own T.V. for my bedroom. :D
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I always make it a point to put the CC on any tv I am watching. Last month I went over to a friends house and after finally figuring out how to put the CC on his tv, I couldn't turn it off when it was time for me to go home! :giggle: It took him a week to figure it out. He was so mad! I do that to everyone!
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There were 2 incidents where I fully understood what was happening to me. The first time was when my mom ran the vacum cleaner and when she turned it off, I couldn't hear anything. That's when she got me into the ENT to figure out if my hearing was going. I was 5. I got tennittus (sp) while in 4th grade. One morning, my mom was out giving my sib's a ride to school when I suddenly heard buzzing sound. I swore it was a bee in my ear. I tried to shake it out. i got so scared i ran out of the house and waited for mom got back home.
 
Yes, I saw kids on floor, sleeping at night. It was most brief I first remember. Yet, it's blur.
 
NEWIDME said:
I always make it a point to put the CC on any tv I am watching. Last month I went over to a friends house and after finally figuring out how to put the CC on his tv, I couldn't turn it off when it was time for me to go home! :giggle: It took him a week to figure it out. He was so mad! I do that to everyone!
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That is funny.:giggle:
 
I was born hearing but all my family were Deaf, I was brought up in a deaf culture. When I started to lose my hearing in my teens I suppose I just thought here it comes. Now Im very deaf but my life is the same as before same friends as when I was hearing.
 
I found out first day in school. (Mainstream) I was watching a small light going around the ceiling and oblivious to all else. Then when glancing down saw several children laughing at me because it was some boy reflecting the sun with a metal pencil top, and they thought funny I didn't know they were laughing at me. I had good friends at home though. Another kid on block was profound deaf (this was rubella epidemic days) and all neighborhood kids our friends.
 
Since I was born with normal hearing, I don't have any experiences with regards to that, but I do with regards to my blindness. I was born totally blind. The first time I remember being "different" was when I was in the first grade. I was quietly reading a Braille book when someone placed their hands on the book and asked me what those "bumps" were. :) Since I couldn't see, I thought everyone read the same way I did. No one had explained to me that blind people read Braille and sighted people read print.

Now that I think about it, I do have an experience with regards to feeling different as it relates to my hearing. I was 15 years old at the time and had received my first pair of hearing aids. It was the first week that I received them. I'll never forget the moment I walked into the room and the first thing my itinerant teacher asked me was, "How do you like your new hearing aids?" I could have just about died from embarrassment because I didn't want anyone to know I wore aids *and* was blind. (Hope that doesn't sound insulting. I don't mean for it to. It's just the way I felt at the time.)
 
Hear Again said:
Since I was born with normal hearing, I don't have any experiences with regards to that, but I do with regards to my blindness. I was born totally blind. The first time I remember being "different" was when I was in the first grade. I was quietly reading a Braille book when someone placed their hands on the book and asked me what those "bumps" were. :) Since I couldn't see, I thought everyone read the same way I did. No one had explained to me that blind people read Braille and sighted people read print.

Now that I think about it, I do have an experience with regards to feeling different as it relates to my hearing. I was 15 years old at the time and had received my first pair of hearing aids. It was the first week that I received them. I'll never forget the moment I walked into the room and the first thing my itinerant teacher asked me was, "How do you like your new hearing aids?" I could have just about died from embarrassment because I didn't want anyone to know I wore aids *and* was blind. (Hope that doesn't sound insulting...I don't mean for it to be. It's just the way I felt at the time.)
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It is not Insulting,I had many moments like that myself.
 
deafbajagal said:
The very first day that they put me out of the deaf school and placed me into a public school. I was in first grade. I knew then that I would never be the same. My parents and older sisters said it was years before they heard me laugh again.
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I had a similar experience sort of, except mine was more into middle school.
I had been getting a bit delayed, and had fallen behind a year, until they finally had the sense to ask me what the problem was, and it turned out I was was bored!

My parents wanted to try putting me in a 'regular' school, they did and actually I loved it at first. It was a bit hard also because I am and have always been very shy, and was placed with people who were unfamiliar, but I liked the challenge it presented, I was fascinated to discover a kind of 'relativity'. I worked hard for a year and rapidly caught up to where I was supposed to be, with my assistant and a private tutor, and then was advanced an extra year and still did well. The bad thing was when I made it to high school, I got bored again and became a bit rebellious, and ended up dropping out... but still, my experience gave me a thirst for knowledge, and apparently I had exceeded a lot of people's expectations at times (it didn't seem special to me but apparently I had impressed several teachers), I still continue studying and reading a lot of things in my own time.
 
jiro123 said:
I was born with it and I don't ever remember complaining or being angry about my hearing disability. I guess I was just born with keeping my head up high and grin.
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D.H. Lawrence on self-pity: "I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."

I was different because I had a deaf sister, and I could "talk" with my hands. Most first-grade classmates wanted to learn it.

As an adult, I became deaf gradually, so it wasn't a shock -- and certainly not the end of the world. I learned some speech-reading naturally, so I was ready for formal schooling.

I'm discriminated against because I'm deaf, but it's just an annoyance, not the worst ignorance we encounter.
 
Chase said:
D.H. Lawrence on self-pity: "I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."

I was different because I had a deaf sister, and I could "talk" with my hands. Most first-grade classmates wanted to learn it.

As an adult, I became deaf gradually, so it wasn't a shock -- and certainly not the end of the world. I learned some speech-reading naturally, so I was ready for formal schooling.

I'm discriminated against because I'm deaf, but it's just an annoyance, not the worst ignorance we encounter.
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You say that so perfectly, Chase!
 
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