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Frisky Feline

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When you were born profoundly deaf or any form of hearing losses. And You don't have any issues about being depression about being deaf.

So I have created a place where you can share your experiences of being deaf that you do not have any uneasy issues, but joy.





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Well I can say I have the experience of being born HOH and don't have depression because of it.

But on the other hand, I am not happy all the time either. Anyone who tells you they are always joyful is likely to be less than truthful.

I have quite a bit of anxiety, but it is related to autism not hearing loss.
 
I was born deaf but if you want the specifics, I am hoh enough to know what I am missing. However, it was no effort at all to come to terms with this. IT just IS, nothing more, nothing less....
 
Born hoh, now total deaf. Had bout of depression a few years ago about it. Fine now.
 
:aw: ? related specifically for people with any loss from birth? Fine if so - just wanted to be sure I understood if I can answer in here or not:wave:
 
Oh, that's a good point. I mean in general for anyone who happen to lose their hearing at a much later as well.
 
oh, ok, :ty: Frisky. It is true I started losing my hearing couple years ago ....although interestingly, the doctors at my birth did tell my mother I was missing inner ear bones <born 3 months premature>. But anyway, for me personally, I feel happy with how I am in general. Now because I'm only human, I'm not always cheerful, considerate etc. But generally I don't have any sorrow/depression issues relating to being hoh. And I'm pleased to be part of AD!
 
Born profoundly deaf, no depression but do get anxious when I am doing something new/meeting new people/new job but once settled in routine/system, I am fine. I find things little tough due to my parents being in other country and cannot be here when I needed them for example calling up car insurance to change the insurance over to my new car, or other important stuff that needs calling up for but have no email address (sigh) I don't trust a lot people to do these important stuff due to what had happened in the past. I often feel disappointed with myself that I was unable to do simplest thing that could have been sorted via Email.
My friend (hearing) who is my genuine friend had been helping over summer she is leaving the country for couple of months so we are in the process of sorting important stuff so I won't need to worry about it until my parents comes back in UK.
I am usually cheerful person with wicked sense of humour but I do get emotional/or be hard on myself mentally, if things got too much for me. At work they are fantastic with me, always make sure that I am ok, if I say things are too much, they don't question it but asks me if I would like to work somewhere else where I won't need to deal with the public but it's very rare that it happened.

Although I do accept that I am deaf, I wouldn't be the person I am today if I wasn't deaf but I do find being deaf has it's disadvantages but on the plus side they do have advantages such as beauty sleep and turning off HA/CI when things are too noisy/annoying is often a sheer bliss! LOL
 
For those that don't know me here; I am now deaf in my left ear and only about 40% hearing in right - w/ aid. Unlike 20 some yrs ago, when I had 30% hearing in the Left ear, and 70+ish% hearing in the Right ear.
In all my years of hearing loss - including the most recent serious changes in my lack of hearing - I have never, ever had any emotional problems related w/ my hearing loss. And this, on top of the fact that I am Bi-Polar! ;)

-charles
 
I can raise my hand now when 20 years ago, I wouldnt be able to lift a finger.
 
I've gone thru periods of depression myself and seeked out help....what turned me off tho', was one counselor who told me that it was my deafness that was causing my depression.....and she was a mental health counselor for the hearing impaired.....I never went back there, sought out a much better, board certified psycharist, and after a few months, felt much better.

Everybody has their good days and their bad ones. Life has it's ups and downs....change is constant....just rolling with the flow is about all we can do mostly....I do know that my deafness was not the reason for my depression. I'm a much more happier and stablier person than I was in my 20's, 30's....Time takes care of it all.
 
I was really happy to be deaf, but frustrated when I could not use sign until I had my first hearing aid at almost 9 years old. Over the years in mainstream schools, I was always frustrated trying to understand in the hearing classrooms with no accommodations like ASL and other need accommodations for me to understand what is being taught in my schools. I was very happy to be in the Deaf Communities in other cities in U.S.A. before coming into Canada. No problem with that. Being deaf is my whole life and I would not trade for anything to be able to hear. No way! Deaf Culture is here to stay. :thumb: :D
 
Bebonang said:
I was really happy to be deaf, but frustrated when I could not use sign until I had my first hearing aid at almost 9 years old. Over the years in mainstream schools, I was always frustrated trying to understand in the hearing classrooms with no accommodations like ASL and other need accommodations for me to understand what is being taught in my schools. I was very happy to be in the Deaf Communities in other cities in U.S.A. before coming into Canada. No problem with that. Being deaf is my whole life and I would not trade for anything to be able to hear. No way! Deaf Culture is here to stay. :thumb: :D
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I am glad you grew up being happy about your deafness. I grew up HATING it.
 
Bottesini said:
Well I can say I have the experience of being born HOH and don't have depression because of it.

But on the other hand, I am not happy all the time either. Anyone who tells you they are always joyful is likely to be less than truthful.

I have quite a bit of anxiety, but it is related to autism not hearing loss.
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I agree with Bottesin , anyone that said they're alway happy is lying. I have depesssion and it not because of being HOH , it from the treatments I got for being HOH growning up.
 
Bebonang said:
I was really happy to be deaf, but frustrated when I could not use sign until I had my first hearing aid at almost 9 years old. Over the years in mainstream schools, I was always frustrated trying to understand in the hearing classrooms with no accommodations like ASL and other need accommodations for me to understand what is being taught in my schools. I was very happy to be in the Deaf Communities in other cities in U.S.A. before coming into Canada. No problem with that. Being deaf is my whole life and I would not trade for anything to be able to hear. No way! Deaf Culture is here to stay. :thumb: :D
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that is difficult to not easy!! I understand you frustrated. I can frustrated community low people not deaf and hearing I am disappointment
 
I was born Profoundly Deaf and I never had depression from being deaf.... I love for who I am and I accepted my deafness from the start.
 
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