Comments | jeca_pereca: mind boggling indeed

jeca_pereca

mind boggling indeed

Jun 24, 2005 14:03

yesterday i saw this girl i know who has been deaf since she was born. a couple of months ago she had surgery where they implanted a device in her head that allows her to hear for the first time in her life ( Read more... )

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watchamacallit June 24 2005, 18:23:24 UTC

did you ask what it was like to hear her own voice? that must be strange.

jeca_pereca June 24 2005, 20:13:36 UTC

i didn't! i remembered i forgot to ask her that because i am very curious about it as well. her spoken english is really good, she just sounds like she has some minor speech impediment. you would never know she was deaf.

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jeca_pereca June 24 2005, 20:14:53 UTC

yeah, i know that my mom who sort of grew up without music or with very little of it in her life has very hard time with any pop. i myself found punk and hard core atrocious until i gave it a proper listen and identified melodies and such. it was a huge revelation for me.

sadotter June 24 2005, 18:30:44 UTC

try giving her some Boredoms or Deerhoof.

ruxxell June 24 2005, 19:17:56 UTC

hannah torash.

jeca_pereca June 24 2005, 20:15:09 UTC

erm, i'd like to keep her as a friend, thanks.

verbminx June 26 2005, 08:23:49 UTC

yeah... deerhoof? that's just mean. ;)

j_u_d_i June 24 2005, 18:51:54 UTC

That must be so weird. Especially now that we live in such a noisy world. Constant beeping blipping honking screeching. I hope the girl can cope! I wish her lots of luck.

boyinstatic June 24 2005, 18:57:07 UTC

even in places we consider quiet, there's so much background noise we've learned to block out... right now there's AC blowing in my left ear, computers humming all around, low frequency street noise leaking through the windows...
the unstoppable hum:
http://www.raaf.org/Electronic_Works/Electronic1/UHum.html

jeca_pereca June 24 2005, 20:20:26 UTC

i know! ever since i started thinking about all this i keep paying more attention to various sounds. i think we ignore about 95% of the sounds we hear as irrelevant. but that comes from years and years of training. hopefully she'll be able to get around all this much faster!

ps. i just saw you on newbury -- you were having coffee and i waved but i don't think you saw me.

boyinstatic June 24 2005, 20:29:01 UTC

oh no! i didn't see you. i'm usually fairly clueless to people around me, but especially so on the street. sorry!

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thewicked3000 June 24 2005, 19:01:12 UTC

this is absolutely fascinating. there is so much we take for granted in life. reminders like this are so humbling.

jeca_pereca June 24 2005, 20:17:49 UTC

isn't it? totally crazy!