0n (01 Oct 07) Janis Kracht wrote to Douglas Connor...

 JK> Hi Doug!

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

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

 JK> Glad you found your way here :)

 Me too. 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.

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"....

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.

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!

I'm still getting this notion to sink into my thick skull.... it
really is good medicine. Just don't give ding about people like that.
Don't care! Simply don't care is all. Tune them out the same way they
tune me out. Amen!

Maybe they need smack of a good solid life altering disability
to make them appreciate alternate methods of doing things.

I have seen this happen in fact and then OH BOY are they s

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"...  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. 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.


Cindy

... Cats: Murphy's way of saying, "Nice furniture!"

--- PPoint 3.01