Deafness, communication, etc.

[ieuleron]

I'm roughly 50% deaf in both ears, from at least early childhood. It is a peculiar sort of deafness which knocks out my ability to hear midrange frequencies, normally associated with consonants in spoken English, while leaving me sensitive to higher and lower frequency sounds.   I get the missing ~50% of my 'hearing' from lip-reading.   Nobody else

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[litch]

Dude, go take a real sign language class.

I think you might benefit from identifying yourself as deaf, have you had a hearing test lately? Your upper en has to be shrinking steadily so you might be even worse than you think.

A goon venue for getting some ASL practice is youtube, there are lots of videos of deaf people ranting about shit.

[ieuleron]

I do get my hearing tested periodically. It has not varied since I was four. Cross-comparing my exam results over the years does well illustrate the improvements in testing technology, which is interesting on its own. The very high range is dropping, as is typical, but has not impacted the portions used by language and there is no particular evidence that it will do so

[ieuleron]

I hadn't really thought about youtube lately, but that is a good idea.

[stalk_her]

I didn't know about your hearing!!

[ieuleron]

It usually doesn't come up in day-to-day conversation, even less so online. ;-)

I've known girls who thought I was, "super intense", because of how close attention I paid to what they were saying. One girl was sure that I was going to kiss her. She noticed I was watching her lips... not knowing it was me lip-reading.

[rabbitucker]

Dude. I've known you for YEARS and I never knew that thing about your hearing.

[ieuleron]

27 years this fall (I think...). It wasn't until after college that I felt generally comfortable talking about it. The signs are perhaps somewhat subtle unless you've gotten explicit training.

[...alternately] And you call yourself a detective? ;-)