Hello! I’m profoundly deaf in both my ears I have a CI and a hearing aid. In my senior year I will be taking asl as my foreign language, because I know zilch except the alphabet. Lately I’ve been insecure about being “hearing” cultured because I’ve never had deaf friends or known deaf people, and those I seen I feel left out because I’m not fluent in asl. Perhaps it would be better for me to staying in the “hearing” world but I hope joining this is at least a teeny step in integrating. Do you have any advice? I’d take any whether it’s insecurity or beginning asl

Hi all, I have progressive hearing loss (still working on the diagnosis for why) and I really worry I am going to end up isolated and lonely. I have always been a social butterfly and friend of the world. I thrive off of social interactions and I get really depressed when I am alone for long periods of time.

I am conversationally fluent in ASL, but none of my friends or family are. I used to attend a Deaf church and was getting along well with the community but ended up having to move and there are no Deaf churches in my new area (closest I’ve found is 1.5 hours away…). I know about things like deaf meetups for silent dinners, coffee chats, etc, but it seems like these groups only meet once a month and I often find it difficult to attend with regularity with my work schedule. Such that it can sometimes be multiple months before timing lines up enough for me to be able to go to an event.

I’ve already been left out at family gatherings and work events, so I don’t feel I can even lean on them. I still get along well enough with my hearing aids, lip reading, and the tiny bits of ASL my friends/family know, but I recently lost a little bit more of my hearing and it seems like being left out is happening more and more frequently. Plus it sucks to have to work so so hard to just barely keep up and always feel like I’m missing the joke.

How do I keep myself from loneliness and isolation? I know for a fact that I can live a life just as rich without hearing, people do it all the time, but I feel like I need someone to teach me how, because I’m struggling.

Hey Y'all!

I'm profoundly deaf in both ears and wear CIs. I'm currently looking for a job to start saving for college, and I've been dealing with a lot of anxiety about finding a job that works with my deafness. I'm wondering if anyone has been in my spot before and has any advice on finding a job as a Deaf high school student and what I should be preparing/looking for in a job particularly when it comes to my Deafness? Thank you so much in advance! : )

So I'm trying to get into the Deaf community. My ASL skills are pretty decent I would say I'm about ASL 3 out of four.

Throughout typing and text I just noticed a lot of it comes up as like almost mean.

Like tonight a guy tried to set me up with his straight friend because he thought it was funny.

And the straight friend thought being gay was gross.

And I just noticed that some Deaf people will straight out tell you how they think and feel about people.

I know I'm a sensitive person but how do I realize that someone I guess being completely blunt isn't supposed to be rude.

I don't even think it is 2/10 , you might hear but you just cannot interpret it , it is like hearing foreign language and not knowing the meaning despite knowing they said "konnichiwa oni shan".

I got this today at a Deaf event and thought some of you might find it helpful.

Obviously social events in noisy environments where it’s harder for the person to hear, but are there any other events that become prohibitive to HoH people?

My Deaf brother has a Bachelors in IT and has gotten decent jobs in the past but has faced discrimination a few times and left them. He has been unemployed now for many years struggling to get hired anywhere else. It seems like he gets pretty far but once the interviewers realize he’s Deaf it seems the position is magically filled or they ghost him.

My main question is what types of jobs have you successfully gotten hired at as a Deaf person and do you have any tips on the interview process to get through? Just looking for ideas to try and help him.

I think it’s complete BS with the discrimination and have told him to take legal action but he’s spoken to lawyers and has been told it’s so hard to prove they won’t take it.

I am facing a serious concern regarding my deaf brother's behavior. He has displayed violent tendencies since his school days and is now turning 31 this year. My twin sibling and I love him dearly, as do our parents who treat him like a treasure. However, the love we offer is often met with violence.

A bit of background: he studied graphic designing and worked for three years, but eventually grew tired of it. For the past five years, his routine has consisted of sleeping, eating, watching YouTube, and going out to eat. Despite our efforts to encourage him to find employment, he either ends up quarrelling with his boss or simply refuses to go to work.

Given our family's financial stability, he indulges in late-night outings, which is a concern for my parents. Although my mother initially allowed it, his frequent returns home well past 10:00 pm have become problematic. Recently, I video-called him to come home promptly, which angered him. The next morning, my mother discovered a broken flower pot, and when questioned, he admitted to causing the damage.

We're at a loss as to why he's becoming increasingly violent. Our parents are aging, and I worry about the impact on them if I'm not around to help due to my job. They're growing tired of his behavior, and I can't help but feel sorry for them. It seems like he needs to be encouraged to live independently, find employment, and take responsibility for himself.

I may sound harsh, but how much longer can my parents endure this situation? I'm considering seeking advice from the deaf community on Reddit to explore potential solutions. Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I’m opening a yoga studio right next to a university for the deaf . I would really like to figure out how to make my studio accessible to the surrounding community, including students on this campus. I’d love to hear anyways that I can make the studio and its classes deaf-friendly.

I’ve had one deaf student in the past, and she would sometimes use her phone for voice to text when she wanted to understand what I was saying, beyond the physical poses themselves, like the philosophy and history behind certain poses. Most people don’t like to have their phone by them during yoga, as it takes them out of the moment. Are there any good voice to text devices I could have available? I’m open to any other ideas or feedback. Thanks in advance!

hi! i'm Deaf, i work at a retail store in a mall. the employees use walkies to communicate with each other, and to request backup on the cash register. i'm usually a backup cashier on weekends, and they have trouble getting my attention because i can't hear a walkie, so they try to flag me down if i'm close enough, or have to send someone to grab me.

while they've never expressed any issues with doing these, i imagine it must be frustrating having to run across a store to try to find me and send me up front. and then for me, customers give me nasty looks because of how long it takes me to come up or sometimes customers on the floor come up and are upset that there's not another cashier (i assume, given the angry expression, shaking their head and gesturing toward the register. i'm not perfect at lip reading).

what i'm wondering is, are there any devices that i could wear or hold onto that maybe would vibrate or light up to signal to me to come to the register? i've tried looking up devices like this before but can't find something that is practical. i get a lot of results for things like flashing doorbells, but what i need is more like a singular device where the cashier can hit a button or something and i get a vibration or light on a device i have.

any tips or things pointing me in the right direction are appreciated :))

LO is almost 11 months. She failed 3 hearing tests as a newborn and we confirmed and found out the scale of her hearing loss at 3 months old.

She’s always been a great sleeper. Until recently, I breastfed her to sleep, and she would sleep all night. Lately, she’s stopped breastfeeding to sleep. She eats until she’s full, and then starts fussing and pulling away.

I’ve tried rocking her to sleep, putting her down drowsy, patting her bum/keeping a hand on her belly, she ALWAYS wakes up and screams when I transfer her to her crib. It doesn’t matter how long I stay at it or what I try. I’ve let her cry it out a couple times but I feel intense guilt hearing her scream herself to sleep, so I rarely resort to this, basically only when I’m dozing off myself trying to get her down and I feel it’s becoming unsafe. When she does finally fall asleep, it’s a gamble on whether she’s going to sleep through the night or be up 4-5 times.

I’m so exhausted. I have a toddler as well, and trying to take care of both my kids, myself, the cooking and cleaning AND trying all day to get my youngest to keep her hearing aids in and focusing on learn to listen sounds/ teaching her ASL, I’m seriously drowning. I don’t have a lot of support, and when I’m sleep deprived, I feel like I’m on autopilot. I’m cranky, I try to keep my composure for my kids but I have really little patience and sometimes it spills out, a lot more when I haven’t slept. Between both my kids waking up last night, I got 3 hours of sleep.

Has anyone else gone through a similar stage with a child who has hearing loss? I really need advice on how to settle my baby, or how our sleeping arrangements should be (she’s in a room with her sister at the moment, they both sleep through each other’s waking) or just maybe what I’m doing wrong. I’m so out of my depth, I do have support for my child but don’t have anyone I can go to for questions like this as no one I know has experience with this.

Oh boy my little man is growing up so quickly, I'm currently eyeing a Samsung zflip 3 on facebook market place, because my brother wants a Flip phone.
I currently have the Samsung galaxy S23 ultra, and the updates here are good. And I hope that the same updates I have on this phone are also on the Samsung Z flip, I love the bixpy call to text feature and it would be very useful, also google video call because of the live captioning. I'm aware that a live captioning app would need to be on his phone but what else?

What else can I do to help my brothers first phone be useful to him?
Please

I moved around a lot as a kid but always ended up with other Deaf people, I moved to a different country at 19 for university and started to learn the local sign language

All my friends from university are hearing, apart from one other deaf person in some of my classes, she had also just moved to the area so didn't have other Deaf friends

We've been to the local Deaf club but it's primarily people who are 50+ and grew up in Deaf schools together, so they already have their groups and don't really open up much to newbies, teenagers/children, and a lot of the younger people have CI's and prefer to speak, the only people we've met around the same age as us (~30) are all hearing BSL students, but we don't really know how else to meet other Deaf people locally

Can anyone recommend exercises to help a HOH / DEAF
for listening skills and pronouncing sounds?

Appreciate any advice. TIA -

I've been deaf in my right ear since birth. I am now seventeen years old, and from a lifetime of this, I'm just so exhausted. It's a major inconvenience as I feel like I miss so much from my right side. People can never sit to the right of me, I have horrible sound localization, etc. Long story short, I've been strongly considering the BAHA. I've had hearing aids for years and can't stand them. I've never gotten to the point where I've been able to wear them consistently for over a few months. I have sensory issues and they make me extremely uncomfortable. Plus the maintenance, wax, cost, and more just make going without any aid more desirable. This has led me to consider the BAHA. I like the fact that it's bone-anchored and just snaps on, that would immediately solve the sensory problem. I also like how simple it seems to use compared to the constant maintenance of hearing aids. So, from those who have gotten one, how is it? Do you think getting the BAHA for these reasons is worth it? If I'm completely honest with myself, I never see myself getting to the point where I'd wear my hearing aids consistently. I also have some logistical questions. How long did you take off work/school for the surgery? How bad was the healing process? Any advice is appreciated.

Hello. I would like to ask what's your career and how is it?

Im planning to change career. I'm currently a Math teacher and yes, I can say I'm good at it. However, I feel exhausted and struggle with following conversations. I'm turning 30yrs old. I'm willing to take another bachelor's degree.

Hello! I was wondering if anyone had any tips when it comes to school for someone who’s temporarily hard of hearing. I’ve lost almost 50% of my hearing in both of my ears from a viral infection and have no idea when it’s going to go away so I just have to live with it for now. What are some tips when it comes to quiet teachers and ones that hardly use handouts? Thank you!

Edit: I live in Canada grade 12 Edit 2: I should also add that I already have tinnitus and hearing loss doesn’t run in my family as far as we know

How do you use Relay UK from abroad using the +44 151 494 1260 number when the prefix 18001 is already baked into the app -and I cannot delete this 18001? Or am I meant to dial 18001 0151 etc ?

Many thanks for any help !

Hi, first time posting here, but I had a question. I have severe hearing loss and wear hearing aids during the day. Obviously can’t wear them while I sleep, and wasn’t sure of other solutions for what’s happening. I have noticed I’m not hearing my alarms in the morning to wake up, and it’s starting to affect my job. I was almost an hour late this morning 😅 I was wondering if anyone had any tips for good alarms for this, or if there’s any other solutions? I have a watch that’ll vibrate when my alarms go off but I tend to have to charge it at night. Is there anything else that could work? Advice appreciated.

It still annoys me that I was put in special ed part-time as a kid despite being one of the top students growing up. I was literally always the best in math in my grade level. I was among the top for all the other subjects and graduated my high school as number 5. I got into all the competitive colleges I applied to. F**k the education system.

Hi,
1st post here, I am a hearing person, but my Deaf cultural studies class posed a question should non-deaf professors be teaching ASL? I said I don't think it matters and derailed the discussion and class for about 40mins. I said as a hearing person (my major has nothing to do with language fyi) i think language is a highway for information sharing, so why would anyone of any culture feel that people looking into this language require a Deaf professor for ASL 1? I'm going to have questions and need coherent answers. If we are speaking diff languages how well is that going to work? He said they are taking jobs from real Gallaudet graduates, which I can agree on. However, he extrapolated the convo to men teaching women's suffering, which sure, a good point, but if someone has dedicated 8 years of their life to something, I like to assume they have a fair idea of what they are talking about. I guess my question is, if someone is dedicated to something for almost a decade and willing to share that info, does it matter where they come from or what their physical abilities are if they plan on sharing that info?

TLDR; Should ASL 1-X be taught strictly by Deaf professors?Wouldent the ablility to communicate with someone outside of your cultural bubble open the door to new ideas or thought processes?

(I speak 0 ASL, this is an intro class, I plan on taking ASL in fall however my course load required something lighter this semester and i figured immersing myself in the culture would be a great start)

How do you discover new features or learn about new accessibility technologies? Do you find the marketing websites for these products informative and user-friendly?

So I've been studying ASL and I'm probably at level 4 out of 4 at least 3.5.

I noticed a lot of times I have trouble when I try and understand someone signing without them slowing down.

I've gotten into the habit of having a person sign to me mostly on zoom and me trying to understand when I can.

I'm fine when I'm asking what a sign is which is helping my vocab but I'm too embarrassed to ask Deaf people to slow down.

I always have a feeling that I'm a guest in the Deaf community so I kind of have to force myself to understand them the best I can. If I can't understand them then that's my problem and I just need to keep getting better and better. But it's hard because the only way to get better is to understand the conversation.

How do y’all know when the oven is preheated and again when the timer goes off when foods done? I have an oven thermometer I check. I usually set a timer and check the temp to see if it’s ready, then use my phone to time the food in the oven. If you have any other tips I’d really appreciate

I often find some top voted comment on a sign language related video being a hearing person saying “they should teach ASL from kindergarten! Should be taught in all schools along English!”

Sure yeah I 100% agree it’s be great if ASL is taught to everyone. But there’s something that irks me w these comments, can’t quite put a finger on it but maybe it’s kinda like virtue signaling? Like I bet most hearing ppl commenting this never made an effort to learn ASL themselves when there are free online classes available to anyone to learn. But I do think it’s great ppl are acknowledging the benefits of learning asl. What do y’all think?

I'm editing video of a piano concert (no singing, just piano) that has the pianist speaking before playing each part.

1. What is best to display in the captions during the musical performances ie [ Music ], [ Music:Bob's Sonatta in D-minor ], [ 🎵🎵🎵🎵 ]?
2. How long should the caption stay on the screen during the entire piece? constantly on the screen until the pianist speaks again, or just for a few seconds at the beginning?
3. are "[ ]" preferred or needed, or do I need something different

Thanks

So I’m hearing not deaf but since moving to This new city and starting work I am now around the deaf more than I’ve ever experienced in life well I met someone at work that’s deaf. At first I never noticed them but than they started popping up more and more and would like to joke around a lot even thought they can’t talk it seems like we have a lot of interests in common from when trying to communicate it’s something about them even though we can’t truly communicate like we do we have our own way like we flirt it’s really strange they really intrigue me a lot. I started learning sign slowly and I made the effort to learn some things everyday and even showed this person but at first they kind of told me why? Why do you want to learn? Don’t? Kind of like discouraging so I learned from other deaf people around. But I noticed since speaking now more and more with more deaf people it seems like they maybe date in there community and probably don’t try to date hearing people. Is it discouraging? Or realistic that it wouldn’t work out in there eyes to even attempt to date a hearing person? Any insight please don’t be rude

This is a genuine question and I’m not leaning either way for a specific answer. I’m more so asking out of respect and not wanting to take up any space where I genuinely don’t belong. For some background I am an interpreter and fluent in ASL and English. I ran into someone today on vacation who signed and we started chatting. She’s a CODA and asked me about my family. My mother is hard of hearing and requires a hearing aid but does not identify as Deaf and does not sign. My grandmother is fully Deaf and same thing. Hearing loss runs in our family and it is likely I will lose my hearing at some point too. She insisted that I was a CODA and invited me to a conference for CODAs this summer. Growing up, I did not share the same experiences as CODAs of parents who sign, so in this way I feel like I’m not really a CODA. As much as I would love to be around other people who grew up with HoH parents, I don’t want to take up space where I don’t belong. Thoughts? Please be kind in the comments 🙏