Are You Deaf?

fatknacker

Well....are you?

I used to hear that being deaf was more isolating than being blind, but I imagine in the last 20 or so years with the rise of text based communication that feeling so isolated from the wider community is a thing of the past.

Are there many deaf people on here?

Bepolite

What..........Pardon?

You want carrots in your hat?

kowloon

Sorry, can't read this, I'm wearing a towel.

Also, implants help many.

NipNip

ya whah?

darkpagandeath

Why don't you get a hearing aid from an optician.

Ronin247

Yes. They are known as the Garth Brooks fan club

Lucifer MorningStar

Wha ?

fatknacker

Laugh all you like, but I started this thread with a Braille keyboard attached to my touchscreen device. Feels a lot like my acne riddled teenaged son's face. Who also is a keyboard.

Umadbrah?

No I'm blind computer stop typi

DEFTLEFTHAND

Headphone use will probably give me trouble down the road, I just can't be told to listen at a moderate level. I have to listen to everything pumped up, I'd sooner not listen at all if I couldn't.

I can be selectively deaf.

Wouldn't like to be given a choice between sight and hearing, but I'd probably choose hearing if I had to. I don't know how I'd cope in a world without music or laughter.

fatknacker

Yeah music is great but I have a good catalogue to keep me going in my head, if need's be.

Do you create your own headtunes too, when you're deaf?

fatknacker

fatknacker wrote: »

Yeah music is great but I have a good catalogue to keep me going in my head, if need's be.

Do you create your own headtunes too, when you're deaf?

I have a headtune playlist for the shower, so it's probably a thing. Unless you're born deaf, which would be much harder I suppose.

looksee

Depends on what you mean by deaf. I have enough hearing loss to need to wear a hearing aid in one ear after an ear infection damaged my hearing. Age is affecting my other ear but I don't want a second aid yet so I tend to do a bit of 'sorry, what did you say'-ing. It can have some advantages, on a recent stay in a hotel near a church I was the only one who was not damned by the church bells ringing every 15 minutes all night, and if stuff is too noisy I can always turn it down a bit.

rolliepoley

Yeah, deaf in one ear and blind in the other.

fleet_admiral

I am selectively when the wife is talking, I close my earlids

Shane-KornSpace

Not deaf but hearing is very poor in my right ear due to a series of ear infections I had gotten as a kid.
Always saying "Sorry?" when someone says something in a low tone.

Ditch

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Headphone use will probably give me trouble down the road, I just can't be told to listen at a moderate level. I have to listen to everything pumped up, I'd sooner not listen at all if I couldn't.

Be careful what ye wish for.

BrokenArrows

fatknacker wrote: »

Laugh all you like, but I started this thread with a Braille keyboard attached to my touchscreen device. Feels a lot like my acne riddled teenaged son's face. Who also is a keyboard.

Why do you need a Braille keyboard if you're deaf?

Renegade Mechanic

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Why do you need a Braille keyboard if you're deaf?

Go on, take a wild guess.:p

LowOdour

I'm deaf in my right ear

Madam

I am blessed with super hearing (according to my husband I hear things no one else can). My poor father in law is almost completely deaf in one ear and the other would be minimal but he is the greatest lipreader you ever saw(or he's a good reader of people). Can't bear loud people or music though:)

GTE

Headphone use and some popular music production practices are a serious danger to our hearing. It is an issue I care a lot about as a sound engineer. Quite frankly, hearing issues have lead to many cases of social isolation and depression with a number of cases of suicide.

Here are some stats from the UK.

There are more than 10 million people in the UK with some form of hearing loss, or one in six of the population.

From the total 3.7 million are of working age (16 – 64) and 6.3 million are of retirement age (65+).

By 2031, it is estimated that there will be 14.5 million people with hearing loss in the UK.

More than 800,000 people in the UK are severely or profoundly deaf.

There are more than 45,000 deaf children in the UK, plus many more who experience temporary hearing loss.

More than 70% of over 70 year-olds and 40% of over 50 year-olds have some form of hearing loss.

There are approximately 356,000 people with combined visual and hearing impairment in the UK.

About two million people in the UK have hearing aids, but only 1.4 million use them regularly.

At least four million people who don't have hearing aids would benefit from using them.

On average it takes ten years for people to address their hearing loss.

About one in ten adults in the UK have mild tinnitus and up to 1% have tinnitus that affects their quality of life.

(Source: Action on Hearing Loss)

Bog Standard User

stem cell research is close to curing many forms of deafness

http://www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/news-and-events/all-regions/press-releases/human-stem-cells-restore-hearing.aspx?jse=0

The Diabolical Monocle

OSI wrote: »

Yes, I am deaf. Thanks to a cyst the size of a large orange, a large chunk of the left hemisphere of my brain is missing, and I don't have the "mechanics" for hearing from the left hand side ear.

At least you get a free orange.

DwightSchrute1

You'll have to speak up... I'm wearing a towel.