carlmeister
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Hello, uh, I don't quite know what to say here, but whatever. My friends call me Carl, I'm 16 and yeah. I've been hard of hearing for 15 years, a hearing aid wearer for 12. I also have mild tinnitus, but it doesn't really bother me, except when I'm trying to sleep. Weirdest moment of my life when my grandma told me she'd developed tinnitus, and asked me how I deal with it. 
Up until about 2 years ago, I didn't even know it wasn't 'normal' Uh, I've never really been immsersed in deaf culture, but lately I've become very interested in it, and I'm trying to learn ASL, though I'm pretty sure at some point I'm going to have to take classes.
I'm in a totally hearing society, on that part. My hearing loss isn't so bad that I can't function; I do pretty well in school and I play music. There are still moments when I wish I had a friend who was hoh, or deaf. Sometimes people just don't get it. Like today, when we were talking about jumping in the lake, and I said I couldn't do that [my eardrums are perforrated] and said it was because of my ears. My friend said , 'just take your hearing aid out!' like it was the most obvious thing in the world. I explained that the hole in my eardrum was what I was most worried about, to which she suggested earplugs. I've explained so many times to so many people that earplug are not the magic cure that keeps infection causing water out of your ear. Yeesh.
I'm also concerned about hearing people who abuse the fact that they can hear. When I listen to other people's Ipod's with them, I have to ask them to turn down the volume, becuase my ear starts hurting from the volume after about a minute. Do the perfectly hearing not understand what they have?
Anyways, yes. I just wanted to hang around and see what peoploe here think. It's a deep dark fear of mine that my hearing will obliviate into nothing [because of music, mostly], but I'm aslo prepared that it can happen, so I thought I'd prepare myself now.
Anyways...hello.
[edited like...5 paragraphs lol]
Up until about 2 years ago, I didn't even know it wasn't 'normal' Uh, I've never really been immsersed in deaf culture, but lately I've become very interested in it, and I'm trying to learn ASL, though I'm pretty sure at some point I'm going to have to take classes. I'm in a totally hearing society, on that part. My hearing loss isn't so bad that I can't function; I do pretty well in school and I play music. There are still moments when I wish I had a friend who was hoh, or deaf. Sometimes people just don't get it. Like today, when we were talking about jumping in the lake, and I said I couldn't do that [my eardrums are perforrated] and said it was because of my ears. My friend said , 'just take your hearing aid out!' like it was the most obvious thing in the world. I explained that the hole in my eardrum was what I was most worried about, to which she suggested earplugs. I've explained so many times to so many people that earplug are not the magic cure that keeps infection causing water out of your ear. Yeesh.
I'm also concerned about hearing people who abuse the fact that they can hear. When I listen to other people's Ipod's with them, I have to ask them to turn down the volume, becuase my ear starts hurting from the volume after about a minute. Do the perfectly hearing not understand what they have?
Anyways, yes. I just wanted to hang around and see what peoploe here think. It's a deep dark fear of mine that my hearing will obliviate into nothing [because of music, mostly], but I'm aslo prepared that it can happen, so I thought I'd prepare myself now.
Anyways...hello.
[edited like...5 paragraphs lol]
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Happy to have u with us! 
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