snazzychica2812
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okay, hi everyone.
my name is jessi, i'm 15, and i live in CT, in a town with a population of, like, 2325 or something. it's small, trust me.
i have tinnitus, and mild hearing loss [25db if i remember correctly] in my right ear and my hearing is literally on the 20db line in my left ear--say it's bad normal or good mild, take your pick. it might be from noise damage [thank you, iPod.] or from a piercing in my right ear that i got infected a while back which screwed with my hearing. it could also be genetic, since a lot of my family seems to have mild hearing loss, but my grandmother and i are the only ones who have done something about it.
i'm first percentile disordered with CAPD, which is a central auditory processing disorder for anyone who didn't know. that pretty much means that i can't understand noise if there's any background noise, which makes school really hard and understanding words of music without reading along nearly impossible most of the time, especially if i'm in, say, a car, and there's other people talking. the 1st percentile part means that i'm worse than 99% of people with CAPD. yay? haha anyway.
cuse of the CAPD and the fact that it's already hard for me to hear due to the hearing loss, if people are talking to me and i'm just finding it too hard to understand what they're saying, i may as well be deaf. . .i just hear random noises and i can't understand them, which i've heard is like hearing for the first time after a cochlear implant, if anyone's had one.
if i get into a situation like that, i do identify as deaf and tell people that they need to give me a minute to catch my bearings so i can try to lipread. [i can actually lipread very well.] with my friends, if it gets too hectic for me to understand, i revert to ASL, which i'm trying to teach myself. i'm pretty good at it, not so much grammar but i'm getting to be a fast fingerspeller and i can often guess what signs are before i look them up, just based on other signs that are similar. as far as i can tell, i'm not that bad, cuse i watched an ASL translator at a conference i went to [there was a boy there who was Deaf and spoke fluent ASL.] and i knew almost all of what they were saying. i don't know anyone else who speaks it fluently, so i've taught my friends a few basic words and we get by pretty well. they help translate words for me in class [out of context, "oedipus" and "odysseus" sound exactly the same.] and it works out pretty well.
they're going to do an MRI of my brain soon to see if there's something up with my inner ear, and if they can't figure it out from there, i'm hoping to get an FM system for school and a hearing aid for maybe just my right ear. we'll see.
haha okay, that's my big long intro post. so. . .yea, not sure how to end these. =P
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my name is jessi, i'm 15, and i live in CT, in a town with a population of, like, 2325 or something. it's small, trust me.
i have tinnitus, and mild hearing loss [25db if i remember correctly] in my right ear and my hearing is literally on the 20db line in my left ear--say it's bad normal or good mild, take your pick. it might be from noise damage [thank you, iPod.] or from a piercing in my right ear that i got infected a while back which screwed with my hearing. it could also be genetic, since a lot of my family seems to have mild hearing loss, but my grandmother and i are the only ones who have done something about it.
i'm first percentile disordered with CAPD, which is a central auditory processing disorder for anyone who didn't know. that pretty much means that i can't understand noise if there's any background noise, which makes school really hard and understanding words of music without reading along nearly impossible most of the time, especially if i'm in, say, a car, and there's other people talking. the 1st percentile part means that i'm worse than 99% of people with CAPD. yay? haha anyway.
cuse of the CAPD and the fact that it's already hard for me to hear due to the hearing loss, if people are talking to me and i'm just finding it too hard to understand what they're saying, i may as well be deaf. . .i just hear random noises and i can't understand them, which i've heard is like hearing for the first time after a cochlear implant, if anyone's had one.
if i get into a situation like that, i do identify as deaf and tell people that they need to give me a minute to catch my bearings so i can try to lipread. [i can actually lipread very well.] with my friends, if it gets too hectic for me to understand, i revert to ASL, which i'm trying to teach myself. i'm pretty good at it, not so much grammar but i'm getting to be a fast fingerspeller and i can often guess what signs are before i look them up, just based on other signs that are similar. as far as i can tell, i'm not that bad, cuse i watched an ASL translator at a conference i went to [there was a boy there who was Deaf and spoke fluent ASL.] and i knew almost all of what they were saying. i don't know anyone else who speaks it fluently, so i've taught my friends a few basic words and we get by pretty well. they help translate words for me in class [out of context, "oedipus" and "odysseus" sound exactly the same.] and it works out pretty well.
they're going to do an MRI of my brain soon to see if there's something up with my inner ear, and if they can't figure it out from there, i'm hoping to get an FM system for school and a hearing aid for maybe just my right ear. we'll see.
haha okay, that's my big long intro post. so. . .yea, not sure how to end these. =P
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