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Originally Posted by nycfembbw

Just watched this video tonight: What it's like to be Deaf. I recommend it.

Thanks for posting these videos, I watched them both. I must say I understand a lot of what was being talked about in this particular video. Now I am not deaf but I live in both hearing / deaf cultures. As I am getting older and I am losing my hearing steadily by the year. I am growing more and more frustrated in not being able to hear. It's a rude awakening for me, because a lot of what the deaf culture experiences on a daily basis I am starting to experience. I know what it's like to see closed caption for the first time, I think I saw it at a house I was baby sitting for at one point. I was a teenager, the mom was hard of hearing. But none of the TVs at my parents house had them, so the first tv I was around that did was in college due to the ADA laws for TVs to have them as of 1995. I need to learn to sign and really crack down on it because I think I am going to need it in the future.