as a musician your plight is unimaginable horrifying to me, i strive in vain to put myself in your shoes, and quail at the implications.
i try not to depend on hightech as fantasy way out of my problems, (that's why it's so wonderful when it does work that way, like with this laptop!), but if i were in your shoes i think i would place my hopes there.
last night i was watching a nat. geographic documentary on the human body and there was a lot of tech stuff to be awed by, such as an eye surgeon who put in 16 tiny electrodes into the back of a blind person's eye, to replace 100s of 1000s, and she regained her vision to a great degree.
there was some amazing stuff about stem cells too.
blind people usually make great masseurs, do deaf people attain excellence in other fields?
thanks for this expression of your anguish, we all need reminding of what should be obvious once in a while.
sometimes i think i get the tiniest of hints of how you might feel, when i expend a lot of energy explaining something to someone who isn't really listening, or the experience of being surrounded by people talking in a language i am clueless about, like it was for me in many of my travels in india, iran, afghanistan, turkey, greece, morocco, it got to be extremely frustrating, and made me consciously choose to settle where i stood a chance of understanding what people are chattering about around me.
but this pales to insignificance when i think of living in a silent world...
i respect your attitude to life enormously, in wales, and a m regularly inspired to care more deeply about my fellow man and woman because of your posts.
and i pray that science or healing will eventually learn how to resolve this affliction you have, so you can learn all there is to learn through the worlds of sound.
please continue to share... rest assured, you are a mistress of communication, through your pix and posts, and i always look forward to your offerings here.
your pain is equally valued as your positivity, it's all fuel for who you are, and who you are is much bigger than what you imagine, we are all wounded in different ways, and must walk on just the same, often surrounded by people who seem better equipped for life's difficulties.
you might not feel the vibrations in my voice, but i believe you have ears in your heart, which still work very well.
i'm sorry if this sounds mawkish, it's hard to express right, though i'll die trying...
good luck, we're rooting for you! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
I guess there are quite a few points to respond to there. One is that you look at this from the point of view of loss. You think what would it do to you if you lost your hearing? You see, I've never lost anything, I just work with a different set of tools. But the fact remains is that I am the one that is different from the majority and therefore I have to try to fit in. Assimilation rather than integration.
I don't think the problem lies with me and I don't know what I haven't got so I don't feel aggrieved about that. I do feel aggrieved about being reduced to a lower status, less deserving, not so valuable in society.
My world isn't silent but you wouldn't recognise it. The same way you learn to recognise sounds and what they mean, I do as well but the information I work from is far more ambiguous and patchy and misinforms a lot of the time.
I think some obscure sense takes over. I read people and interactions rather than listening. So sight obviously, but I have some talent in interpreting the meaning of what I see before me, although that still leads often to different conclusions than others seem to reach! Ad astra per aspera
although that still leads often to different conclusions than others seem to reach!
that dosn't mean you're wrong though, just because your in a minority. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
although you could just call the general view Institutional blindness. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
But the fact remains is that I am the one that is different from the majority and therefore I have to try to fit in. Assimilation rather than integration.
Well, not so different. I think everyone has areas which they find difficult, and it's rare to get the consideration that might be wanted for them.
My expectations of sales and marketing people are so low that I'd be surprised if they did manage to remember to email you. Or anyone.
Sometimes it's not so much about people's inability to respond intelligently to someone with a disability, as to respond intelligently to anyone in general.
