Embracing my deafness

The world is scary when you first have an hearing aid, I prefer to call it my bionic ear :), every little sound scares the hell of you. The most scary is being outside, there so many noises coming at you all at once, in fact at first it was quite intimidating but then I ask myself geezzz how did I get on so long without one, why did I restrict myself from a better quality of life. Its nice not having to ask people to repeat themselves or pretend to hear what they said. Society has gone on about how deaf people face such ignorance and here is me being ignorant to the hearing people. I decided to embrace my disability, but not really sure I should call it that, I don't see this as a disability at all, in fact I love this new world I can hear, and if it wasn't for seeing the deaf aid in my ear no one would know I was hard of hearing. I love this new part of me.

I embrace my deafness and this new language I am learning, sign language is so much fun to learn, I have surprised myself how far I have come within a few weeks although my finger spelling is not quite up to speed  and the dexterity in my fingers is not that great with some of the letters of the alphabet I really have a hard time with the letter Y. Of course I have met some new friends who are also deaf or hard of hearing they have been great with helping me with this. I am kinda hoping some of my friends will take a little course in sign language but only if they want too.

I cant say it hasnt changed my life because it has, but it is defiantly not in a negative or bad way, what is quite comical though is people thinking they have to shout even though you are wearing a hearing aid, its so funny when I give them a little smile and say you don't have to shout LOL, although I would appreciate it if you look at me when talking to me, it does make it difficult to catch what you say if you are turned away from me. That is my only hearing challenge at the moment

The pros, at least I have mute button for when the world is getting on my nerves LOL but I do miss not being able to hear music like I once did, I can hear it, but its just not the same. I have not always been hard of hearing so I can compare, some sounds I miss like not being able hear the birds singing as well as I used to...............oh and hey you should hear thunder through an hearing aid.....WOW

So this isn't a big blog, but a few people has asked me about this so here I am, I love my deafness, besides I make this look sexy LOL

Take it easy out there folks, peace out and for all the deaf  people PEACE OUT :)