GrizzleBear
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Hi, I'm GrizzleBear! I'm 25
About 10 years ago I started losing my hearing due to repeated head trauma. At the time, my high school offered ASL courses, so I had at least a basic way to communicate. However, my school was hearing, my family and friends were hearing. I went to a hearing college. Now I am married to a hearing wife and I'm living with her and my hearing partner. So, I feel very isolated.
My hearing loss feels a bit strange. Basically, I mostly can't hear around the frequencies of human speech. It's frustrating, because I can hear a lot of other things, just not about half of what people say. It also cuts out a lot of my music, sound effects from video games, sounds of most cars going by, etc.
But I've been steadily learning ASL, and now I want to reach out for community. I want to make friends who understand and have been through some of the same things.
A lot of my learning ASL comes from translating and performing songs, since I was a vocalist in another life. It has given me an... eccentric vocabulary.
About 10 years ago I started losing my hearing due to repeated head trauma. At the time, my high school offered ASL courses, so I had at least a basic way to communicate. However, my school was hearing, my family and friends were hearing. I went to a hearing college. Now I am married to a hearing wife and I'm living with her and my hearing partner. So, I feel very isolated.
My hearing loss feels a bit strange. Basically, I mostly can't hear around the frequencies of human speech. It's frustrating, because I can hear a lot of other things, just not about half of what people say. It also cuts out a lot of my music, sound effects from video games, sounds of most cars going by, etc.
But I've been steadily learning ASL, and now I want to reach out for community. I want to make friends who understand and have been through some of the same things.
A lot of my learning ASL comes from translating and performing songs, since I was a vocalist in another life. It has given me an... eccentric vocabulary.
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