> A cyberfriend asked me if I can hear myself talk.
 > Being late deaf I do
 > have speech. I too thought if you can't hear at all
 > you wouldn't hear
 > yourself talk but I DO even though my test says I'm
 > zero .. etc etc
 > etc. blah blahblahblah...

 > Anybody know anything about this? Thanks. Cindy

I don't *know* why you can hear yourself, but you did say some time back
that you get a sound track when you see physical events happen.  Maybe this
is a manifestation of that.  Do you sound normal to yourself or not?

Another thing that occurred to me (belatedly) about your communication
problems:  Do you have a cellphone?  If not, do some homework.  They can be
made to vibrate instead of make noise when a call or text comes in, and
there ought to be a number of people who will be perfectly willing to text
message with you.  I had to get a new phone recently, and I was interested
to see that it has TTY capability, too, although I haven'y called a
business's TTY number yet to try it out.

This won't help with voice calls or voice mail, of course, but someone
could record a greeting for you to the effect that they need to text or
call this other number to speak with someone.

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