me too. I do have sensitive tactile but probably not as sensitive as yours but close. Here's a funny thing - when I was fishing.. i could not handle hooking a worm with my bare hands unless i'm wearing gloves. i can feel intrinsic detail of its texture and it was horrible. <shiver> bbbrrrr
Serious???????
I love hooking a worm on a hook with my bare hands.
i don't like the way it feels when worm's responding to pain when being hooked so I just need to wear gloves to not feel it.
i've always loved to write and was fortunate enough to have a wonderful 8th and 9th grade english teacher who encouraged me to do so. (my 9th grade english teacher was a published author)
That is what precisely what Michelle Rhee talks about. She's the front cover of December 8, 2008 TIME magazine. She's revamping DC education system so that students can have CONSISTENT quality of education like you did. As the result of awesome 8th and 9th grade English teacher... look at you now.thanks for the compliment regarding my writing.
How do you know they feel the pain? Did you ask the worm?
the term "deafblind" means a person is both deaf and blind.
however, 97% of all deafblind people have some degree of hearing and/or vision. only 3% of the deafblind population (like myself) are totally deaf and blind.
i read and write in a variety of ways:
* computer with screen reader and braille display (see above for more info)
* braillenote (see above for more info)
* handwriting guide (a guide that has metal horizontal frames where i'm able to write within)
* hard copy braille
* perkins brailler (see "are there any deafblind ad'ers?" thread for more info)
i do all of my errands and shopping by myself since i'm able to hear pretty well with my ci's.
the only exception is when i see my neurologist who has an accent. since i have difficulty hearing him, i use a tactile terp during our appointments.
when i write a shopping list or my appointments for the week, i keep track of them on the computer and on my braillenote. if i want to carry this information with me, i'll type it on the perkins brailler so i have it in hard copy braille.
thanks for the compliment regarding my writing!
i don't know if i'm the next helen keller, but i appreciate the compliment just the same.
jiro,
you might as well add my 7th grade english teacher to the list. she was a real stickler when it came to grammar. so much so that an "a" paper could easily turn into an "f." although i hated her with a passion back then, i am very thankful for what she taught me.
thanks for passing that article along. i'm definitely going to check it out!
and you're right about the importance of consistent education. i was misdiagnosed as having a learning disability from 3rd-11th grade (when the problem was really due to my total blindness and inability to hear well). when i entered university my freshman year i asked to have a test to determine whether or not i actually had a learning disability. the test was negative and (not to brag) showed that i was 4 years above grade level in all subjects except math (in which i was 2 years above grade level).
my freshman english professor was the same. He was a grammar nazi. that's why only 0.00001% of students in his class gets an A. 
Hear Again,
have you considered moving to Washington state due to best services for the deafblind?
Are you sastified with living in Wisconsin which you are the deafblind services good to you?
Do you have any talents that no blind people could do?
sleep? what's that?
50% of the time i sleep 8 hours per night and 50% of the time i don't sleep at all.
when i'm manic (i.e. having a manic episode) or rapid cycling on an hourly basis, i don't sleep at all because i don't feel the need to. i have tons of energy and feel like i could do 100 things at once. there have been times where i haven't slept for over a week at a time. i know that's not healthy, but it's part of the bipolar that can't be helped.
