Reply to warrior
My comment is in response to Warrior's
Dec 29, 2023 8:42 pm
Reply to Beachboy
The discussion took the route of discussing deafness from birth and the impact this has upon people's behaviour and understanding:
Thank you both Beach Boy and Warrior for this as I learned from you both:
GReat Insight .... Thanks for this - most enlightening.
I have gradually lost my hearing since the age of 50-something - maybe a tadge before that.
Fact is that so much of what we perceive is governed by visual cues and feeling .....
When I first had hearing aids I used to find them irritating / inconvenient ....
now I have sophisticated digital slim ones - and yes, the're actually great .....
But still there are days where I like to really 'work' my hearing - because rather like eyesight, when sight deteriorates with city pollution, stress, lack of sleep IT work [screen stain - not it person - lol] and fine detailing on the drawing board, painting easel, it used to be the constant change ..... contact lenses for close up - then specs for driving and large presntations / board room meetings and so on - all packed into a working 16 hour day. .... Then, when you down shift to a clean air environment and a better quality of life the eyes 'recover' and eyesight impoves.
Now with hearing loss / decline I do realise that there is also the brain adjustment thing when we use our aids .... but fact is I still like to know I can live - and live well without the aid - either from choice , or out of necessity ..... BUT I do warrent that it is unfair to expect - in my case - for an upped volume or continual voice projection by others , just because I prefer not to 'normalise' on occassions. SO my own two penneth on my own limited understandings are aired - as prior to reading your post - I probably knew little more concerning Audiology - let alone the Physchology involved as you have shared here!
Thanks for you own explanations - In a short focussed read, you have imparted what audiolologists do not have the insight to even expose!
On a separate point entirely,
My School used to be geographically next to a special school for the deaf [and in those sad old days some folk thought 'dumb' ..... the School was known as " the deaf and dumb school" !] ..... My-Oh-My
We [The school I went to for Hearing kids, situated next door in the same rooad] used to play the school for a joint sports day ..... hockey rounders in the in the Autumn / and Tennis / Netball in Spring / summer.
I was a very sporty person.
This got me to know fairly well, within the school context, a few of the girls, who were deaf from birth.
MAny years later in life I found myself in business, fronting a Presentation Company - and used to go to meetings and presentations - to pitch and bring in work, service the briefs and then present finished products / tools.
ONE OF THE MOST MOVING EXPERIENCES I HAD was when I first went into a Charity Board Room Meeting where everyone - apart from myself used their full senses to supplement their non hearing sense.
IN fact the very particular atmoosphere of 'a quiet in depth knowing' was palpable - Those People were the most perceptive and deeply enquiring audience I had ever had the privilage to present to, and later to represent!
I, have as I have grown a little, come to know that, that whilst I would love for All to experience fine symphnnies [for not everyone hears stuff in their heads quite like Beethoven did for example] .... and the magic of bird song when the dawn chorus lifts my spirit on a dull winters day, I know, in my own heart, that if I ever have to trade one of my senses - my hearing would be missed, ohhhhhhhh yeah .............. v.v.v.much, but touch, feeling, sight and our other 6th+ senses I would feel severly numbed if they were absent indefinately!
Sooooooooo just saying
Thanks Warrior. Thanks Beach Boy.
Your words have resulted in a read I never expected to have tonight!
R E S P E C T
Aged, 'Listening' Member across the pond - who tries to keep her ears young!
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Jayne