#nerve deafness

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[living-deaf-society]

Living with deafness is like living on a one person planet.

[living-deaf-society]

Deaf Awareness:

Through the years, I’ve seen t.v., internet, and snail mail advertisements for audiologist and hearing doctor services telling me I can receive help for my hearing loss and/or deafness, and just as they get my hopes up, right at the end of it, they show a PHONE NUMBER and instruct me, the viewer, the deaf/hoh person to CALL for an appointment.

If I could call (which typically depends on the sense of sound to complete, which obviously I’m lacking since I need your services) for an appointment, I wouldn’t need the appointment.

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The silence of discrimination:

Hoh and deaf people get discriminated against all the time.

The hearing world is like:

“Huh, what do you mean discriminating against people who can’t hear? I didn’t know anything was different about them.”

Just because you can’t see someone’s obstacle doesn’t mean they don’t still face that obstacle every single day.

My adult (but still a teen) daughter was told by a major grocery store chain — they wouldn’t hire her until she had new hearing aids. And seeing as she needed a job to make money, she obviously couldn’t afford thousands of dollars for new hearing aids.

They hired a male hearie friend of hers the same day. Surprise!

She was hired for a different job as a hostess at a restaurant, and when she asked if she could be a server because that position paid more, the manager told her no because she couldn’t hear. She can still hear with hearing aids.

So...ya know, more lovely discrimination, based on all that shit they’re not supposed to discriminate you for — class, race, religion, disability, gender, age...that no one ever talks about.

[living-deaf-society]

You can’t understand what it’s like to live with deafness until you’re deprived of all sound and all connections to sound, with only the fading memories of what you heard in the past—replaced with the silence of a different quiet.

[walkingwiththeblackdog]

Picture from a one-minute medical film (1919) about a shell-shocked soldier suffering from "nerve deafness"as it was called. The only word he can hear is bombs and when he hears it he hides under the bed.

[liberaltendencies]

We have the proof of concept that we can use human embryonic stem cells to repair the damaged ear. - Marcelo Rivolta, University of Sheffield, UK

Stem cell research can restore hearing in people with nerve deafness!