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09-26-2013, 11:34 PM
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
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I'm deaf, not blind.
But thanks for shouting. PS ... Sorry you feel like a vet, sexobon. Oh, wait ... never mind.
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09-26-2013, 11:59 PM
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The future is unwritten
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What?
 I never thought she was deaf, just dense, unhip, clueless, kind of like everyone's previous generation.
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09-27-2013, 12:46 AM
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
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 I know that coming out as HOH/deaf loses me ... oh, a gajillion hotness points. But I have some great stories about my more severe misinterpretations of conversation. Like the turtle weenie soup conversation ...
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09-27-2013, 01:44 AM
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The future is unwritten
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I've been wearing two hearing aids since 1981 and should have way before that. As of two months ago they told me they had good news, my hearing is so bad there's no sense in buying hearing aids with all the bells and whistles because I wouldn't hear either. So don't lecture me on misinterpretations of conversation, eh. 
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09-27-2013, 01:43 PM
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To shreds, you say?
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Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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09-27-2013, 04:52 PM
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
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Deaf girls have all sorts of advantages. For one thing, we're easier to approach. If you blow your pick-up line it won't matter, because we didn't hear it. We're likely to smile and nod and hope desperately that you didn't just inform us that our mother was just killed in a terrible accident. At the very least we're amusing. When 'tortellini' = 'turtle weenie', everything is amusing. (NB - to clarify, I am not profoundly deaf, although I've been hearing-impaired since childhood. I don't use ASL, I lip-read pretty well, and I get by one-on-one in an exam room. Or one-on-one generally. Just not in crowds.)
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09-27-2013, 12:11 AM
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I love it when a plan comes together.
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Funny you should say that. When I went through Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS, a.k.a. goats on wheels) conducted by the American College of Surgeons to qualify US physicians to work in ERs, I named [for the patient charts] my Human Role Model (HMR, a.k.a. goat) Gilda ... after Gilda Radner. I always admired that comedienne's innate ability to enable people to laugh at their adversities and my HMR was certainly in an adverse situation facing euthanasia after surgical procedures. Gilda was quite popular for her namesake as was her namesake. Maybe trash talking dead comediennes is a Canadian thing, ay? |
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