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Digital Signal Processors
I’m like a spy. I eavesdrop. I think about sound more than most people. And not just cuz I’m a musician. I wear ‘da ma’fuckin hearing aids. Preference is leaning, however, towards referring to them as...
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This is a guest post by Paul Harrison As a Deaf person who hears a little bit and adjusting to the life of wearing hearing aids it can be difficult to feel comfortable interacting with others,...
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Everyone Should Have Hearing Aids
I think everybody should have hearing aids, but I would call them Everyday Digital Signal Processors (EDSP’s). (UPDATE 8.3.14 I just learned there is a term called “Hearables”). Market them to the...
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How Do Deaf People Eat?
I want to be Deaf so I can minimize my interactions with hearing society to an amount whereby I can sustain a peaceable existence with my well being and centeredness. I am used to hearing aids as...
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Conspiracy Against Deaf
It is not a hearing loss, or hearing impairment, or hard-of-hearing, it is a Variation of Deafness. By reframing the semantics and epistemological approach to the discourse, we can change the hegemony...
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I Am Not Your Audio Reactor
Fuck you. yeah, Im feelin’ it. angry. wanna break somethin. Im done. dont know with what. Maybe I can fast tmrw. I can. but while driving job? It’ll make me more alert actually? and I dont know, just...
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Swiss Cheese Model Of Communication
You have to know and accept you are Deaf before you can perceive that you are not hearing. The reason this is important, and why the HOH label is potentially epistemically violent: one, because of its...
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Being Deaf in the Holographic Universe
Being Deaf in the Holographic Universe, I am connected. Not by virtue of hearing aids, which is an external, but by an internal feeling. Ultimately people just want to feel good. If I am happy now then...
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Questionnaire of My Deafness and How I Define Myself Within Deaf Culture
I was interviewed by Virginia Parker and here is the transcript: Hi, My name is Ginny and I am hard of hearing. I grew up in Spokane and was mainstreamed in the public schools. My education was...
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Fucking Guy At Bar Says…
I’m watching Blackhawks hockey game and this guy at bar says, “That’s what I said!” because I said or somehow responded wrong. He was L.A. Kings fan and I was nodding in acknowledgement, not agreement...
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