One person's rant(& a good discription of my life)

He can call himself hearing impaired all he wants and I hope it makes him happy.
 
I Could not have

I could not have gotten any assistance from the Ohio Reabilitation Services commisssion if I did not have a serious impairment. Also annyone who has had to deal with the fustration I have had over the last 15 years would understand.
 
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I could not have gotten any assistance from the Ohio Reabilitation Services commisssion if I did not have a serious impairment. Also annyone who has had to deal with the fustration I have had over the last 15 years would understand.
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I was born with a bilateral severe-profound hearing loss and have endured frustrations but I have never let anything stop me from achieving my goals. I dont see myself as disabled but see society as putting obstacles in my way and up to me to overcome them or not.
 
If that's what the OP wants to be called, so be it. Me? I prefer hard of hearing.
 
I have achieved

I have achieved two college degrees, I am married to hearing wife & and have a career, but to say hearing impairment has not given me plenty of, trouble and still does would be lying. Also if I was going to lose my hearing I would have rather been born that way and got it over with, but instead this genetic time bomb(progressive hearing loss runs in the family) ia going to make me have to do it slowly and annoyingly.
 
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it suxs, 2 college degrees, shit thata better than me, never been married, and dotn have a job........I arent gonna say whats your problem because I KNOW exactly what is to be like treated as second class citizen in the land of the hearing...(sometimes even in the deaf world im treated as such too- bloody deafism) im impressed or even maybe i should say you're lucky, but yes its hard to hang on to 'oh im lucky feeling' when in life its not as rosy as your 'achievements' makes it out to be. I am emphasis with you absolutely, by the way im working on 2 diplomas simutaneously, a degree is too much , too long and too expensive... just got to be realistic within my means...
thing id mention very quickly i dislike the way society sets up 'rehab' or requirement to 'admit' you are hearing impaired to qualify for any assistence, its like they wants us to side along the 'medical deficiency' ideology not by our consesus (its theirs) but by consent in a way that is seem 'legal' (which it is legal, but it shouldn't because forcing us to label ourselves hearing impaired in order to receive services/treatments'
 
I don't identify as hearing impaired at all, I am Deaf, but I do understand why some people do.

If you are always surrounded by hearing people, if the hearing people make little allowances for your hearing loss, and if you grew up with hearing and all of the sudden lose it then yes, maybe you do have an impairment.

I don't feel like I do though.
 
I don't really know what hard of hearing really means. My attitude is that my hearing is impaired since it's not normal. It doesn't mean I am impaired although I certainly am when my back is turned from something and I don't hear it. When people ask if I am hard of hearing, hearing impaired, have trouble hearing my answer is yes. I don't take offense. Instead I am happy that they have taken the time to ask.
 
I don't mind if people ask me if I'm hearing impaired (or visually impaired) but if they ask me which terms I prefer, I'll answer blind and hard of hearing or deafblind. It's just a preference of terminology, but I don't get bent out of shape at the word "impaired."
 
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