What kind of a world did you grow up in?

Daredevel7 said:
Maybe I should clarify myself. I don't mean to say being deaf is "nothing". Sometimes when people have a bigger issue at hand, it can make other issues seem trivial, if that makes sense? It has nothing to do with the issue itself, but rather how much the issue affects you.
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That does make sense. Thank you for clarifying. :)
 
shel90 said:
It was the same thing...those were my friends from the lower elementary years and they turned onto me. By high school, the bullying eased but to them, it was like I didnt exist anymore. Sure, they said hi to me and stuff but I was never invited to socialize with them. I was told by someone that they didnt want to put up with repeating everything for me. At first I thought that person was saying it to be mean but I am sure that person was right. Through facebook, I am finding that many of them are still friends and have posted about their memories while in high school. I have none with them so it was kinda a reality bite discovering that.
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Note the edit in the last sentence of my post.

I'm sorry you went through that shel. It's stories like yours which are exactly why so many students with disabilities report hating high school. I happened to love high school myself, but my freshman year was pretty tough once I started wearing hearing aids because not everyone accepted the fact that I was hard of hearing.

By the time I was a sophomore, all of my classmates knew I wore hearing aids. Once they saw how well I could communicate, they never mentioned them except to tell me how great it was that I could hear better.
 
Hear Again said:
Note the edit in the last sentence of my post.

I'm sorry you went through that shel. It's stories like yours which are exactly why so many students with disabilities report hating high school. I happened to love high school myself, but my freshman year was pretty tough once I started wearing hearing aids because not everyone accepted the fact that I was hard of hearing.

By the time I was a sophomore, all of my classmates knew I wore hearing aids. Once they saw how well I could communicate, they never mentioned them except to tell me how great it was that I could hear better.
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High school wasnt too bad..I just got used to being ignored or not taken seriously. I preferred that than being bullied.
 
Hear Again said:
I'm glad your high school experiences didn't bother you too much. :cool2:
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Thanks...that's why I am so happy that I discovered the Deaf community. I finally was able to have real connections to people for the first time in my life.
 
shel90 said:
Thanks...that's why I am so happy that I discovered the Deaf community. I finally was able to have real connections to people for the first time in my life.
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I feel the same way about my local deafblind and Deaf communities. Once I learned tactile sign (PSE, SEE, ASL), it's as if a whole new world opened up to me. :)
 
shel90 said:
I wore mine all my life and was never embarassed about them until some kids started bullying me about them on a daily basis in 5th grade. 5th grade was when EVERYTHING changed for me and the next 3 years were just pure pure pure pure hell. I wouldnt repeat those years of my life for a million dollars.
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It is like a description of my life, but it went on through high school too.
 
shel90 said:
I wore mine all my life and was never embarassed about them until some kids started bullying me about them on a daily basis in 5th grade. 5th grade was when EVERYTHING changed for me and the next 3 years were just pure pure pure pure hell. I wouldnt repeat those years of my life for a million dollars. I have met many mainstreamed deaf kids and a few of them were never bullied nor made fun of. I tell them that they were very very very lucky that the kids werent bullies. For some reason, my school had a lot of them.
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Wow! That is soooo typical. 4th and 5th grade are when the problems with social aspects start to show up. Mostly because of developmental issues. It is when kids start to notice and place a value judgement on differences.
 
I agree with you, I notice a lot of people became who they are through their experiences. Every one of them are different, that make their own lifestyles.

There are some of examples of my past that change my life today:

*I was in serious motorcycle accident when I was 4 years old, and I am now very sensitive to the "reality of violence" pictures and videos, but not to the faken corn syrup/flours/food colorings made bloods that we saw on the movies. I fainted several times from seeing the violence that the polices and hostipal show at my school. Evenually when someone talk to me about his/her pain experience, I tend to try to ignore depends on how they make it look like.

*From the motorcycle accident and miscare from the hostipal, my parents sued for the money and I got the money for my house. I start to hate the money because me and my parents argue about my money for too long time, also I lose interest into people who won or became rich, for some reason it doesn't impressed me. I also tend to become bitchy and rebellious when my parents tried to talk with me about helping with my house that I bought with that money.

*My house is not so far from the location where my motorcycle accident happens. Since I was little boy, I always love the area where my house is at and feel close to that area.
 
Middle school seems to be a shithole universally. High school (currently for me) seems more like that I'm not being outright ignored or bullied since I demonstrate I'm fully capable but the physical loss makes it hard to start or keep a conversation with people especially when many of them just won't bother. Outside of a few friends I've probably had three or four conversations that lasted more than two minutes, group conversation is impossible.
 
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