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What is deafness?

Posted on 10/08/2001 2:31:04 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection

In light of the recent news concerning Rush, I thought it might be interesting to provide some reality here. For anyone who has no conception of deafness, what is it like?

I hear about 30 percent of what the average person does. It obviously effects many areas of my life. I am wondering who else out there lives with some form of deafness, and if there is anything anyone wants to share with "the hearing" to make this lifestyle easier to comprehend.


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To: liliana
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You're the first one to get it.

21 posted on 10/08/2001 3:37:58 PM PDT by El Sordo
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To: AngrySpud
Please wear your hearing aids more often. According to my audiologist, the more you wear your hearing aids the better you hear. And the more you wear them the more you get used to all of the background noise that is so annoying.
22 posted on 10/08/2001 3:40:28 PM PDT by Atlantian
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To: BabylonXXX
You say something?
23 posted on 10/08/2001 3:44:22 PM PDT by MAWG
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To: El Sordo
Thankfully I was elligible for a Cochlear implant. After 1 year with the implant I count myself blessed. In June I sat outside, in the dark, getting all teary eyed just listening to crickets. I had not heard a cricket since I was seven. 2 Posted on 10/08/2001 14:36:35 PDT by El Sordo

Can I cry with you? We so often take the common for granted that we fail to appreciate the ordinary... I can not imagine loosing ,my hearing,never to hear a hymn,or my sight,never to read my bible...

God Bless you

25 posted on 10/08/2001 3:49:29 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: Trog
One of the points I wanted to make to "the hearing" was the constant noise (associated with nerve degeneration) which is a bigh part of deafness. To take the hearing aids out and sit in a quiet space, I would actually hear noise.
26 posted on 10/08/2001 3:55:39 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Atlantian
" ... wear your hearing aids more often."

I hear 'ya. I've also thought about going in for a new check-up. I got this pair almost six years ago. I expect the military hospital gave me "cheap seats" with older technology. I suppose in these past six years my hearing has deteriorated a bit more ... state of the art aids would be nice.

27 posted on 10/08/2001 3:57:02 PM PDT by AngrySpud
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
" ... the constant noise."

I used to think that if the dang loud-as-a-jackhammer tinnitus would go away, I could hear everything just fine.

28 posted on 10/08/2001 4:01:07 PM PDT by AngrySpud
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I wasn't talking about frequency range. If I and a normal hearing person are standing in an area with a constant high level of background noise, with the selective amplification of speech and suppression of background noise, I can hear speech better than he can. Been there, done that.

About the only place the technology doesn't help is at places like "schmoozing parties", where the background noise IS more speech, but for things like fan noise, engine noise, etc. it DOES work.

29 posted on 10/08/2001 5:09:49 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: Wonder Warthog
Digital does that. I was referring to the ability to achieve a higher frequency requires that the user give-up on some of it though, the hearing aids must be reset.
30 posted on 10/08/2001 5:17:29 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: El Sordo
I have tinnitus in both ears, and would like to ask,
if you have tinnitus and go deaf, does the tinnitus stop?

I couldn't imagine this ringing being the ONLY thing I could hear!

Wasichu

31 posted on 10/08/2001 5:23:42 PM PDT by Wasichu
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I can pass the tone test OK but I have damaged sensory interpitation. I have constant multi frequency Tinnitus also. From what I've learned about it childhood and adult sinus allergies have damaged a substancial portion of my inner ear. This means it effects hearing, sight, and balance. Concentration is now a commidity. Sensory overstimulation results in Anxiety Attacks to the point I have given up movies and tv.

I've had this about all my life and the doctors back in the mid 60's thought it was ADD ADHD. In the past 7-8 years it has came to the point of disability. I can only understand one on one conversations. Also it may take up to a minute for what is said to be processed. I usually say What or Huh and by the second or third repeat it has been processed the first time. The closest diagnoses is called Central Auditory Processing Disorders. It's often mistaken for ADD ADHD and has the same behavioral traits in children.

32 posted on 10/08/2001 5:26:56 PM PDT by cva66snipe
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To: El Sordo
hee hee i took spanish classes,is that cheatng???
33 posted on 10/08/2001 5:34:49 PM PDT by liliana
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To: cva66snipe
The disorder is a gold mine for the psychs and a crutch for too many parents. This society has grown into the idea that there is a reason for everything except a way. Too many ADD's v. solutions, let alone alternative dianosis.
34 posted on 10/08/2001 5:50:45 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: El Sordo
No, no sabía si usted realmente habló, todavía no . La porción de gente es tímido. ¡Nunca sabe quién está escuchando!
35 posted on 10/08/2001 6:07:34 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Looks like it's time for me to admit that I swiped the name from Hemmingway.
36 posted on 10/08/2001 6:10:06 PM PDT by El Sordo
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To: Wasichu
Sadly there's no garuntees. For some, the tinnitus persists after hearing is gone. For other, perhaps not.

In my case I appear to be stuck with it until I die.

37 posted on 10/08/2001 6:12:01 PM PDT by El Sordo
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To: El Sordo
God bless you! :)
38 posted on 10/08/2001 6:16:34 PM PDT by Garin Hunt
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To: AngrySpud
My deafness is genetic, my late grandmother became deaf when she turned 40. I guess I'm not so lucky, I've been deaf since I was born. I use hearing aids and lip reading to help me to communicate. You know what sucks the most, I'm only 17, and I never liked music.
39 posted on 10/08/2001 6:21:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Trog
Same here. The ringing is probably a result of too much headphone use. Then again, my father couldn't hear worth a crap either. I miss hearing the creek down the hill from my deck. I refuse to wear hearing aids because everyone I know who did wear them got worse. Plus I live with two females. What's the point?
40 posted on 10/08/2001 6:24:04 PM PDT by AppyPappy
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