Oh i thought "completely deaf" meant hearing aids wont work at all, but they will help partially deaf people. But my limited knowledge about that stuff is probably 20 years out of date lol so i have no clue

Thats super interesting though. Does the hearing aid give you pretty standard hearing levels, or do you still have to play things a bit louder than the average hearing person to get the same experience?

And did you inherit it from your parents or develop it in life due to something else?

Sorry for all the questions fam, i was just really interested cause i had no clue you were deaf, and double-interested in how your hearing aid works and stuff haha

Think I was partially can hear for couple months and gone deaf over time. It can be he hereditary that comes from my dad. That’s all when I was little and got hearing aid by then. I got an audiologist who is knowledgeable about that stuff and helped me to hear naturally. Now I got a Cochlear and been using it for years with a Bluetooth option which I can listen music clearly. I got an iPhone and Apple put accessibility options for people with hearing aids with loads of option which it’s awesome. You’re fine but don’t wanna get too personal lol

Yeah i was worried i was being rude by bombarding you with tons of questions haha, sorry bout that.

And i was about to add to my last reply: "i wonder if they got aids with bluetooth nowadays or something that just send audio straight to your ear." Technology wild.

But thanks for sharing that stuff man. Crazy how long we can chat with people on sites like this and never know things like that about them.

Now i just gotta prevent myself from thinking @DELON is deaf in the future when i inevitably confuse you two again

My Cochlear got loads of features like background noise cancellation which it’s cool for when it’s getting noisy in a convo. All with a touch of a finger on my phone though. I kind of like to share that stuff because it’s kind of an underrepresented population and part of the statistic. Awareness matters and people are a******s to make fun of and discriminating against them. That’s my thoughts

I totally agree. I get excited when learning about new things in general, especially when im talking to someone with in-depth/firsthand knowledge (hence questions).

What's odd is I've always had an unconscious tendency to assume deafness (and blindess) aren't all that rare in our population, relatively speaking. But i have no clue why or what that assumption is based on because it makes no sense, even from my personal life experience... I didn't grow up or attend school/college with anyone who was deaf. I went to high school with several blind people, but never knew any deaf people at all. (And still don't.)

The only reason i can think of that explains that ignorance is how throughout grade school there were reoccuring bits of sign language put in front of me. Like i remember learning a dozen or so signs by middle school from various classes, posters, and playground interactions — almost everyone i knew could sign "i love you" by age 10. And in middle school language arts class we had to learn and sign the alphabet in front of the class. But i never learned any part of braille, and only ever saw it on signs outside of rooms around school. Which makes it even more strange considering i knew multiple blind people but not a single deaf person, haha.

But I suppose learning things like that early on is good for awareness regardless, even if it made me (and possibly others) assume deafness was more common than it actually is.

See, perspective also matters and I like to see what's on them. I grew up with people I knew with classroom aides to help with people like me or on the alternative setting (people with ADHD, autism, etc) can get extra help and interpreting what the teacher would say. I can't remember who's deaf like me, but it seems long time ago and my memory is kind of vague. Speech therapists is also I worked with to perfect my speech and listening skills which it works in the classroom setting. I learned many things from my dad too when it comes to social settings like "can you repeat that again please" or "can you speak up." Now I'm in college, (graduating in a mere weeks) sometimes professors with thick accents are a problem, but using what ability I can is to read lips which it's easy for me. I knew a couple who spoke in Nigerian or Chinese accents though. My college's disability office is a backup plan, but I can deal with it just fine. World is just small, man.

Didn't realize this won best picture

Absolutely loved this movie. I took a few years of ASL in college, and got to hang out in the deaf community a decent bit. So happy to see them being represented like this

finally got to this movie after being reminded bout it on the last ep of barry

enjoyed this one, apple tv with a oscar winner so quickly compared to streaming competitors