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Audiology Results
Today was my first day back on campus. Sex & Gender class went fine in the morning, I am caught up with everything (I think). Tomorrow we’ll find out how much I fell behind in my other classes, and whether I can catch up quickly or what. I know I fell behind in my linguistics … Continue reading
More Thoughts
I’ve been thinking more about identity and stuff, with regard to the hearing loss. One person asked me if I was sad or excited, a hearing friend said they would be excited, and another person was surprised I wasn’t excited. I guess the reason I am on the fence about my feelings is because of … Continue reading
Audio Results
Today I finally had my audiogram. It’s really been bothering me that I’m not hearing as well as I used to, so I was very excited about the test. The answer was “hey, you do have a mild hearing loss, but we don’t know why – come back in a few weeks, we’ll stick electrodes … Continue reading
Accessible Gallaudet History
I have big dreams for the future. I am planning to major in Deaf Studies and minor in History, and I want to become a researcher of deaf history, with a possible focus on international deaf history. I already know what I want to do first. I am hoping to write an accessible book about … Continue reading
Hearing Girl in the Deaf-World
Today I had an interesting experience relating to Deaf identity. Yesterday, my Honors first year seminar did an activity in which we placed ourselves on a scale of 1-10 where 1 was 100% hearing and 10 was 100% deaf. Nobody was a 1 or a 10; I picked 5, as did a couple of CODAs. … Continue reading
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RIP Gil Eastman
I was so sorry to learn via Ridor that Gil Eastman has died. For those of you not familiar with him, Gil was an amazing voice in the Deaf community. Watching him sign was like listening to James Earl Jones speak…rich, powerful, and intense. He contributed so much to the Deaf arts community and the … Continue reading
Hearing vs. hearing
This post is the result of seeing the capitalized word “Hearing” used to mean a hearing person who is pro-Deaf people. I have seen it before, I believe in deaf, it bothered me then and it’s time to think about why. It strikes me as wrong for two reasons. First, it’s mis-capitalized. A Deaf person … Continue reading
CI Test
I took my CI test yesterday at Gallaudet. I can’t go into details because we sign a confidentiality agreement – I can’t tell anything about the warmup or test materials themselves. I got there right on time, though, and there was hardly anybody in Fay House (the home of Gallaudet Interpreting Services). I filled out … Continue reading