Ever Wonder?

Many times have I wished I were hearing. But I know that isn't possible. I do know while growing up I always wanted to join the military (and I still do!) but that isn't possible.
 
Yeah, of course. And also I wondered if I would have figured out something earlier because I could "hear" like working harder on my art skill so I can work for animation co or whatever.

And what would have happened if I went to public school where they gave good education like they did with my sibling rather than me going to school for the deaf and get a lousy education and have my "gifts" being wasted like that.

At least instead of having my "gift" help give me advantages in this world, it helped me with surviving and having enough of it to help other people. And that's okay.

I remember someone getting freaked out when I said if I could hear, I can finally say whatever's on my mind and having people listen to me and he said that won't be me anymore. I was a bit surprised. I guess I am always designed to be a watcher, watching another people and being unable to understand them for rest of my life.
 
Byrdie714 said:
No. That would be like focusing on the "coulda, shoulda, woulda's."
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This thread is not about obsessing over what coulda, shoulda, wouldas...just like every now and then wonder who we would or where we would be if we werent deaf.

Kinda like "What would I be if I was born a male?" Just moments of wondering and if u do have those moments what did u wonder about?

Nothing serious or not about regrets.

I am happy where I am now but I do wonder sometimes. No biggie.
 
Music talent runs big time in my family, especially on my father's side. All of my four sisters play instruments. One of my sisters can play viturally any instrument and writes music. Many of my aunts and cousins sing, play instruments, etc.

So that begs the question. If I was hearing, would I have shocking pink hair and play in a rock band? Probably! :D
 
shel90 said:
This thread is not about obsessing over what coulda, shoulda, wouldas...just like every now and then wonder who we would or where we would be if we werent deaf.

Kinda like "What would I be if I was born a male?" Just moments of wondering and if u do have those moments what did u wonder about?

Nothing serious or not about regrets.

I am happy where I am now but I do wonder sometimes. No biggie.
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Ahhhh.....I see.

Then my answer is no although I do sometimes wonder what it's like to be a female.......
 
My mom n' sis told me that they think, I will get worse like Marilyn Monroe if I was hearing. In my mind thinks that I may be a singer becuz I always luv to sing in my whole life or maybe a music teacher, composer's orchestra or dentist. I really don't know who the hell I am.
 
My ex hubby told me that if I was hearing I would be very stuck up and a bitch. Looking back, he is probably right cuz I have a little bit of those traits in me. LOL!
 
Sure, I've wondered from time to time to think what I would be doing if I were hearing?

Well... Let's see, If I was hearing - I think I probably would have a better relationship with my parents and the rest of the family to be included in laughters, tears, or any kind of conversations that are shared.

As for the career level, I don't think it really matters because my job requires a telephone duty and I've overcame that barrier at my job.
 
I thought I'll probably be a Barrister or a Detective, if I were hearing....

But if someone offered me a cure for deafness, I wouldn't take it. Can you imagine re-learning to listen all over, and going to more speech therapies? *shudder*

I bet I would still have that speech impairment because our brain's not like plastic as we get older.
 
I'm HOH. So I have moments where so clearly I feel like a hearing person. I feel guilty for saying this, but this how I feel most days -like a normal hearing person even though my hearing audiographs clearly do not. Other days, it is definitely apparent that I cannot understand people and feel confused.

People ask how much can I not hear. I don't know how to answer that question because I do not know. How can I explain how much I cannot hear if I've never experienced "normal" hearing.

I wonder more about how I would be different if I was raised in a household involving ASL or in a deaf school. Would I no longer identify myself as a hearing person? But as Shel said, I'm happy.
 
If I did not became deaf, I would be probably either one of these two roads, one turn into shit life or one for a great life. Who knows. I would be straight A's and go straight to college with full scholorship because from what they said I was too smart and talked very advanced for my age before I became deaf. Or that too smart and bored with school, partied head off just alike any other normal kids. I don't have any idea but I do know if I was hearing, I would be into health professional area probably being a RN nurse or somethinng else alike finding a cure for cancer.
 
I do wonder what I would be doing if I was hearing.

I would probably be in a Air Force or other career.
 
If I were hearing, I probably would have joined the military.
 
Dixie said:
If I were hearing, I probably would have joined the military.
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I would assume the same here, too (for me) since my parents/brother all were in the air force. Loved airplanes and helicopters. high probable
 
If i was hearing, I want pro Kiteboarding or Pilot (airplanes) like Lufthansa or British Airways or. that still my dream ;)
 
Fashion designer, it's my childhood dream... I accept the fact that it's unpossible due my deafness but I do it myself a lot before I married... I still do it sometimes...


My dream wish goes neglect when I got a good job at Police Criminal Unit and work there for 5 years before I married and move out to live in Germany. I got a job and work for Army base for almost 23 years and love it.

 
i was a hearing person , considering the kind of family, social strata, and etc etc i was born into , chances are i'd probably would have be an entrepreuer or a physics scientist of some sort, or even a pyschiatrist (dad was a mental hospital RN)
 
The only time I wish'd I didn't have to wear ha's is when I lose my friggin tiny battery's to my CICs. This happens more so now because the battery doors are broken. So, the cost of HA's and Batteries make me want to hear. Other than that, I don't want to hear. I wish I could never put my HA's on again truth be told.

If I was hearing, today I'd be a racist, superficial, judgemental, snobby person. I am really better off being HA. I think God had me lose my hearing at 5 because He knew how I would turn out if I could hear the stuff my family, TV, even church spewed out over the years. I never did hear when we went to church when I was a kid. This christianity 'thing' is very new to me in my life but it's here to STAY!

We have a certain innocence about us and I like that. I didn't watch tv until my sister brought home a CC box when I was in 7th or 8th grade. I read alot. People made fun of me in school but half the time I couldn't hear them so it didn't matter.
 
If I was hearing, I would've probably became more like my two stepsisters, stepmom and my Dad: Snob, bitchy, popular,racist, superficial, and judgemental.

Plus, I would've became CSI (Crime scene investigator, not the show) or Astronaut...but I can't because of my deafness.

I really think it's unfair how we deaf people are limited to the jobs because of our hearing. For example, We can't be fashion designer? What the heck, we can design but yet we can't talk? Just get a friggin interrupter and then all hearing people can understand.

I really look up to Helen Keller...Look all those things she has done and she's quite a hero to me.

But I have always wondered what underwater hear like. I have CI and I have to take off my CI when I go swimming or take a shower/bath...I always wonder what it would be like hearing underwater.

Other than that...I'm glad that I'm deaf...it's who I am and I like the way I am, not the way my family is. Plus I have great friends, and I got to know great people, who's my true friends and who is not. :)
 
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