I am Deaf. Can talk very well and read lips though and I use ASL, PSE, SEE, and Central American Sign Language (Costa Rican).
What about you? any of you Deaf, HOH, CODA, Late Deafness, etc?
I have normal hearing, but have trouble understanding some expressions when I hear them uttered by highly-pitched voices (females only) such as "no" and "don't".
Seriously speaking, I have very good hearing, but have a lot of trouble understanding unclear human speech. Also, because my ears are the opposite to "sticking out", as they lie flat onto my skull, (this is no joke) I have trouble understanding my conversation partners. This is so, because my ear does not collect the voice of my conversation vis-a-vis right in front of me, the air waves that leave his mouth go past my ears, they don't get captured. (Most earlobes on mammals act simlarly to radar cups on radar antennas: you've seen dogs turn their ears, even when their eyes are closed and lying down, or cats, whatever; they tune their "radar" to the proper direction to be facing the source.) Then if there is ambient noise, it has a better chance of being heard by me, since it comes from all directions. So I have a real hard time conversing in noisy rooms, in echoing hallways, in rivers, underwater, and when I am hanging upside down, by my toes, bound and gagged, and my ears plugged with hot wax.
Talking about ear wax... but hey, even I need to shut up sometimes. And this seems to be a nice, cozy, cool and shady spot to do so.
Edited by
wux
on Tue 06/05/12 08:47 AM