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This is just a fun statement. You know I have been mutt and jeff all my life and still it is incredible how few people ignore it including very much my own family. Brother on phone years ago - saying "are you deaf or what" - eff off says me.
Had a friend on for like 3 minutes today - in that time - garbled out - we are going out for lunch on Friday, she has left her job in NI and is starting work in South of Ireland.
I'm going - uh, wha, eh, slow down, where are we going, eh, what, eh.
Jes us Christ give us a minute.
Had a friend on for like 3 minutes today - in that time - garbled out - we are going out for lunch on Friday, she has left her job in NI and is starting work in South of Ireland.
I'm going - uh, wha, eh, slow down, where are we going, eh, what, eh.
Jes us Christ give us a minute.
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JJ...you have my sympathy....if you are deaf, you are just a pain in the neck, annoying unable to join in with the conversations BUT, if you are blind, you attract all the sympathy in the world because at least you can hear and join in with the topics of conversation.
If you are deaf it is almost certainly due to a nerve deafness and the treatment of this hasn't changed much over 100years....still a hearing aid. Cochlear implants ar limited only to a few specific sufferers.
If you can't hear what someone is saying.....they just raised their voice a few decibels and then keep raising their voice until they are shouting.........and that just makes things worse.
Deaf OR blindness? I would take blindness.
If you are deaf it is almost certainly due to a nerve deafness and the treatment of this hasn't changed much over 100years....still a hearing aid. Cochlear implants ar limited only to a few specific sufferers.
If you can't hear what someone is saying.....they just raised their voice a few decibels and then keep raising their voice until they are shouting.........and that just makes things worse.
Deaf OR blindness? I would take blindness.
are you saying you would rather be blind than deaf Sqad.
I am very happy to be deaf - walk, clean, drive etc - was offered cochlear implants some years ago after not hearing words being said through a headphone.
I do have a cuppla of friends who turned deaf in later life and my heart does go out to them as they don't my ability of lip-reading.
I am very happy to be deaf - walk, clean, drive etc - was offered cochlear implants some years ago after not hearing words being said through a headphone.
I do have a cuppla of friends who turned deaf in later life and my heart does go out to them as they don't my ability of lip-reading.
Gosh Sqad, I would definitely take deafness over blindness. I met a customer at work many years ago who was both deaf and blind. His carer communicated with him by tapping into the palm of his hand. I always wondered how anyone managed to teach him those techniques being that he had been that way since he was a small child.
A bit of info - I think I was born hearing ok - then about 3 months later I contracted (can't remember) now - but they were like boils in my ear. My mother took me everywhere.
I was a very unpopular baby as I cried 24 hours a day for 2 years. In those days nobody detected this but it resulted in nerves being destroyed in both ears. It never stopped me from doing much but I do know I had the speed of perhaps 100 word per minute in shorthand but had to make do with passing 30 wpm as I lipread my teacher.
I was a very unpopular baby as I cried 24 hours a day for 2 years. In those days nobody detected this but it resulted in nerves being destroyed in both ears. It never stopped me from doing much but I do know I had the speed of perhaps 100 word per minute in shorthand but had to make do with passing 30 wpm as I lipread my teacher.
They are not an incumberance if you have patience and understanding. I meet quite a few deaf people in my job and I know how to work with them. I agree that a failure to hear properly can be a bit difficult in a social situation with more than one person though and the deaf person does tend to get left behind in the conversation.
No Sqad - please change your mind.
When you are blind you do not have independence.
Nothing (as I have said before) kept me back. I was pretty good at DIY, at 12 years old, decorated and painted outside of mother's house at 16. Became a typing manager - sometimes managing 28 women in one office. (heartache).
Played the recorder and some years ago learnt the piano (after a fashion).
Got my driving licence at 21 after 11 lessons (first time).
No, Sqad you must change your mind.
When you are blind you do not have independence.
Nothing (as I have said before) kept me back. I was pretty good at DIY, at 12 years old, decorated and painted outside of mother's house at 16. Became a typing manager - sometimes managing 28 women in one office. (heartache).
Played the recorder and some years ago learnt the piano (after a fashion).
Got my driving licence at 21 after 11 lessons (first time).
No, Sqad you must change your mind.
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