My name is Daniel and I'm profoundly Deaf. I was born in 1976 in Auckland (St Helens hospital) and grew up in Onehunga (Mount Smart Rd) from 1976 - early 1978 then Ranui from mid 1978 - 1989. Moved to Invercargill in November 1989 when I was 13 (my mum was born in Bluff and grew up there, moved back there after living in Auckland for 16 years because she missed her family a lot), lived there for a year then moved to Christchurch to attend Sumner School for the Deaf in September 1990 until May 1994, moved back to west Auckland once again living with my nan in Glendene and lived there until March 1996 before moving to Melbourne.
At the time when I left Auckland, it was very hard for a Deaf person to get a job and many mates were moving there in droves and people were employing Deaf people without any qualms. Loved the Melbourne (at the time) food/fashion/partying culture but the frequently cold windy/cloudy weather not so much. Visited Sydney several times whilst living in Melbourne and loved the warmer and sunnier weather so moved here in 2000 and been here even since. Pre-covid used to visit twice a year and in October, will be visiting/seeing them face to face for the first time in three years
My name is Daniel and I'm profoundly Deaf. I was born in 1976 in Auckland (St Helens hospital) and grew up in Onehunga (Mount Smart Rd) from 1976 - early 1978 then Ranui from mid 1978 - 1989. Moved to Invercargill in November 1989 when I was 13 (my mum was born in Bluff and grew up there, moved back there after living in Auckland for 16 years because she missed her family a lot), lived there for a year then moved to Christchurch to attend Sumner School for the Deaf in September 1990 until May 1994, moved back to west Auckland once again living with my nan in Glendene and lived there until March 1996 before moving to Melbourne.
At the time when I left Auckland, it was very hard for a Deaf person to get a job and many mates were moving there in droves and people were employing Deaf people without any qualms. Loved the Melbourne (at the time) food/fashion/partying culture but the frequently cold windy/cloudy weather not so much. Visited Sydney several times whilst living in Melbourne and loved the warmer and sunnier weather so moved here in 2000 and been here even since. Pre-covid used to visit twice a year and in October, will be visiting/seeing them face to face for the first time in three years
Thanks for this and welcome to the forum. It's Sign Language Week in NZ. Sad to hear you can't hear the sound of thunder but at least you can see the awesome sight of a lightning flash
My name is Daniel and I'm profoundly Deaf. I was born in 1976 in Auckland (St Helens hospital) and grew up in Onehunga (Mount Smart Rd) from 1976 - early 1978 then Ranui from mid 1978 - 1989. Moved to Invercargill in November 1989 when I was 13 (my mum was born in Bluff and grew up there, moved back there after living in Auckland for 16 years because she missed her family a lot), lived there for a year then moved to Christchurch to attend Sumner School for the Deaf in September 1990 until May 1994, moved back to west Auckland once again living with my nan in Glendene and lived there until March 1996 before moving to Melbourne.
At the time when I left Auckland, it was very hard for a Deaf person to get a job and many mates were moving there in droves and people were employing Deaf people without any qualms. Loved the Melbourne (at the time) food/fashion/partying culture but the frequently cold windy/cloudy weather not so much. Visited Sydney several times whilst living in Melbourne and loved the warmer and sunnier weather so moved here in 2000 and been here even since. Pre-covid used to visit twice a year and in October, will be visiting/seeing them face to face for the first time in three years
Hi Daniel
My daughter has enjoyed teaching us some signing (where most conversations involved "marshmellow" ). A work colleague posted this for Sign Language Week: My Son Ash and his wife Emma with a little sign language treat. Both are Deaf and use sign language as their first language. Ash is a qualified mechanic and workshop manager and Emma is a qualified baker with Countdown.
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Awhituobs wrote: ↑Tue 10/05/2022 19:44
I am completely deaf in one ear
does that count?
(means I do not know what stereo is or what direction sound comes from)
That's my wife's situation too. Counts at 75% loss of hearing - even though its only 50% of the ears. The noise confusion in a group, or when there's background music is very tiring.
Resulting from MMR vaccine as a baby.
She didn't realise how much lip reading she was doing until working in theatre - couldn't understand what colleagues were saying when they were wearing a mask.
To those that don't know, it seems weird at dusk when she'll ask for the light to be turned on because she cant hear what's being said. In the twilight lip reading diminishes.
i do know have hearing aids
it picks up the sound from my deaf side and puts that into my good side
and also boosts the high pitch sounds (which I have loss with in my good ear),which helps greatly with tinnitus
amazing technology now
it took my brain like a month to get used to this setup though (ie initially it was tiring)
ps, my hearing loss they think was due to mumps...which the MMR vaccine prevents (it was not invented when I got mumps when I was a baby)
). A work colleague posted this for Sign Language Week: My Son Ash and his wife Emma with a little sign language treat. Both are Deaf and use sign language as their first language. Ash is a qualified mechanic and workshop manager and Emma is a qualified baker with Countdown.