Hello Cindy,

>> > Looking to ave this echo in my system.
>> > as it may be a good place to yak.

>> > I was diagnosed with MS in june.
>> > with a vertigo problem and called disabled. :(

>> Glad you found your way here :)

> Me too.

Yes, same here.  Doug's coming down with MS was quite a surprise to him, no doubt.

It can happen to anyone, at any age, though I first got it when I was 24
years old.  It was a bit of a hassle to say the least 

> I have been advised by hearing kin to 'find my own kind'....
> Well I guess! I have! They're all people in cyberspace....  What is
> 'my kind' anyway? I guess , 'my kind' is the kind who love to chat!
> And are not limited to speech hearing.

Find your own kind?? Lol, what a line! :)  I bet you had to hold off from
slamming them in the head   I don't know if I could have :) :)
:)

> You know what I find buzzard? Hearing people who won't use
> cybercommunication. I find this buzzard.
> As in "I can't talk to you because you can't hear"....

That's probably people afraid of technology, that's all I can guess..

> I feel like screaming, "can you read????" But mostly I just give up on
> them in exasperation because experience has proven talking them into
> using alternate methods is like trying to convince a flat Earther the
> Earth isn't flat.

> Then I start to swear. I have to chill out and learn to cop a sense of
> humor. My beloved sister reminds me that people are shallow and tend to
> think only of themselves. Don't take their attitude personally. She is
> right. Don't take their attitude personally.

Yep, that is very true.

> She means: It's not because of you (being deaf) they don't want to
> cyber communicate, it's they don't want to cyberchat with anybody!

That's what it would seem like to me.


> Note on MS: please research online as there are many many very good
> support groups. And even though this sounds cruel, please if it
> helps... just remember this when you are down, " At least I can
> hear"...


Actually deafness, blindness, and much more can be a part of MS.  It
depends on the type of MS you have, moreso what part of your brain is being
affected at the time.  For me, it  happens with Replapsing/Remitting MS
like I have, "now and then"..  When MS first hit my ears and
eyes, my right ear was just "gone" one day, and so was my vision
in both eyes.  My vision and hearing came back though. For some people with
MS, it never comes back.

>please. Again I know this is mean to say- but believe me,
> even though we who are latent deaf 'get used to it' as any of us do to
> a disability- as said- the hardest part to get used to is the attitude
> of the hearing world.

That can be very true :)  I just ignore the idiots in the world.. It's
their problem, not mine 

> I guess I TOO count my blessings. I do. Yes there
> are worse things than being deaf. And, sorry I know it's a sorry fate
> indeed but the worse thing is not MS.

I would never try to categorize someone's disability as "better"
or "worse" or "easier to take" or anything like that,
but I will say that getting MS did force me to look at my life in a
different way.  I taught myself to program computers, and then I taught Ron
... I don't know if I would have even bothered to get a
computer way back then if I hadn't gottten MS . Sometimes it
takes a shock to one's system to realize one's potential.

Take care,
Janis

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