maybe if you explained how implants make you feel, how you have chosen to identifiy yourself as Deaf, but that there is room in your deaf world for him...anyway, i wish you all the best...oops, just saw the date of this video! maybe it is already done by now. if so, i hope you are doing ok. you can still choose to be deaf with implants....and you can choose to use the hearing you have when you're with your family..maybe that's a good compromise! btw, i LOVE your hair!!! :O) take care!
i really appreciated your story and understand that you have strong feelings about implants. you are 19 and it is important to figure out who you are going to be in this world! i'm sure your dad just wants the best for you, maybe sitting down for a "heart to heart" would help? i have kids of my own, and have sometimes had to make decisions about their well-being that they didn't like at the time. most hearing parents really are afraid of Deaf culture and see the world as "hearing".
I've been losing my hearing slowly since birth. Now at 50 being severely hearing impaired totally blows chunks. Hearing speech is just a fraction of our environment. I recently got the best hearing aids money could buy. I was late for work the first morning listing to my backyard...birds, leaves wrestling in the breeze, water dripping off the gutter. I hope someday you change your mind.
from what I have found out about doctors..they will NOT do anything that you don't want if you are 18. period! I do think your Dad loves you very much, but you need to be firm with him and then say, I'm not going to talk about this anymore Dad!
Hello! I was watching your video. Your signing style reminds me of a good friend of mine! A good reminder.
Anyway. To answer your video, I was angry at the fact that your dad is commanding you to do something like this. YOU ARE 19, which is past the legal age of 18. You are an adult. You can make decisions for yourself!
You said that he is your father so you have to accept. THAT IS NOT TRUE.
IF HE IS YOUR FATHER, THEN HE SHOULD ACCEPT FOR WHO YOU ARE!
I am deaf forever who never has a Cochlear implant for my life. and I don't want cochlear implant for me no thanks. it is a risks in a head. my classmate had it but he said he has a headache almost every day!
I 'm stay deaf for life till death. no matters I love deaf.
I do not mind cochlear implants and I feel that they help people but at the same time they are not for everyone. I strongly believe that getting a CI is a personal choice. I hate when parents force CI's on their children. It's a personal choice whether a person wants to get a CI or not. You should step up and defend yourself and tell your parents that you do not want to get implanted in your left ear and that is your final decision. If they can't deal with it then that's their problem.
however, i do want share with you... my parents was found out i was deaf but they were accepted me who I am. so when i was 5 year old that i was got fitting hearing aid for long times. so my mom was made to decide plan get me to cochlear implant like around young but my mom was thinking not ready for me . she did let me to grew up till at 18 year old but i told them i need wait let me to research about cochlear.. so recently, i did got implant on right side ear with nucleus 5 when i was 25.
i have honest with you , i was totally disagree with your dad. he was not supposed decide to get you to CI but i think your better to more listen with you mom did say who you are deaf person than dad but he was wrong decide but he was very coencer about you for safely for reason for fires or alarm or etc … you know i mean, same things, you are 19 or 20 year old now you are young lady now you can own choose. then not listen your dad shouldn't like he was control on you . not good....
I disagree that u had accepted ur father offer since u are now adult and u have your own rights to refused! I do not understand why u just accept it if u really don't want! And u let ur father win over you!
I think the parents should let kid decide by him/herself once she/he is old enough to understand. my parents offered to get me cochlear when i was 5 years old. but i always say no & they respected. until now I finally decide to get cochlear, only just less than a month ago. sounds' are on for 2nd day now today. I admit sounds are annoying. but i think it might be worthwhile because it will help me communicate with hearing world better, same time in deaf world.
adult should have choice also deaf child have choice want or not want it their body choice ...often hearing parent harder to accept to deaf same idea gay and lesbian no different ..myself hard of hearing/ deaf ..I plan get cochlear implant on my right ear is deafness so it my choice want to still always be me deaf person as well ..I very respect people who are ..cant change people life.
maybe if you explained how implants make you feel, how you have chosen to identifiy yourself as Deaf, but that there is room in your deaf world for him...anyway, i wish you all the best...oops, just saw the date of this video! maybe it is already done by now. if so, i hope you are doing ok. you can still choose to be deaf with implants....and you can choose to use the hearing you have when you're with your family..maybe that's a good compromise! btw, i LOVE your hair!!! :O) take care!
perkins1441 4 months ago
i really appreciated your story and understand that you have strong feelings about implants. you are 19 and it is important to figure out who you are going to be in this world! i'm sure your dad just wants the best for you, maybe sitting down for a "heart to heart" would help? i have kids of my own, and have sometimes had to make decisions about their well-being that they didn't like at the time. most hearing parents really are afraid of Deaf culture and see the world as "hearing".
perkins1441 4 months ago
not all hard of hearing or deaf people can do sign language. Please transcribe what she is saying, as I would love to know her story.
gklacik 4 months ago
I've been losing my hearing slowly since birth. Now at 50 being severely hearing impaired totally blows chunks. Hearing speech is just a fraction of our environment. I recently got the best hearing aids money could buy. I was late for work the first morning listing to my backyard...birds, leaves wrestling in the breeze, water dripping off the gutter. I hope someday you change your mind.
Bruuski 4 months ago
from what I have found out about doctors..they will NOT do anything that you don't want if you are 18. period! I do think your Dad loves you very much, but you need to be firm with him and then say, I'm not going to talk about this anymore Dad!
skylilly1 5 months ago
you need to put words in your video.not everyone is deaf and understand sign?
MrNutlessquirrel 5 months ago
Hello! I was watching your video. Your signing style reminds me of a good friend of mine! A good reminder.
Anyway. To answer your video, I was angry at the fact that your dad is commanding you to do something like this. YOU ARE 19, which is past the legal age of 18. You are an adult. You can make decisions for yourself!
You said that he is your father so you have to accept. THAT IS NOT TRUE.
IF HE IS YOUR FATHER, THEN HE SHOULD ACCEPT FOR WHO YOU ARE!
redfictionn 6 months ago
I am deaf forever who never has a Cochlear implant for my life. and I don't want cochlear implant for me no thanks. it is a risks in a head. my classmate had it but he said he has a headache almost every day!
I 'm stay deaf for life till death. no matters I love deaf.
StreetmanGSD1986 6 months ago
I do not mind cochlear implants and I feel that they help people but at the same time they are not for everyone. I strongly believe that getting a CI is a personal choice. I hate when parents force CI's on their children. It's a personal choice whether a person wants to get a CI or not. You should step up and defend yourself and tell your parents that you do not want to get implanted in your left ear and that is your final decision. If they can't deal with it then that's their problem.
astarrynite07 10 months ago
however, i do want share with you... my parents was found out i was deaf but they were accepted me who I am. so when i was 5 year old that i was got fitting hearing aid for long times. so my mom was made to decide plan get me to cochlear implant like around young but my mom was thinking not ready for me . she did let me to grew up till at 18 year old but i told them i need wait let me to research about cochlear.. so recently, i did got implant on right side ear with nucleus 5 when i was 25.
V1nnie08 11 months ago
i have honest with you , i was totally disagree with your dad. he was not supposed decide to get you to CI but i think your better to more listen with you mom did say who you are deaf person than dad but he was wrong decide but he was very coencer about you for safely for reason for fires or alarm or etc … you know i mean, same things, you are 19 or 20 year old now you are young lady now you can own choose. then not listen your dad shouldn't like he was control on you . not good....
V1nnie08 11 months ago
I disagree that u had accepted ur father offer since u are now adult and u have your own rights to refused! I do not understand why u just accept it if u really don't want! And u let ur father win over you!
shebaby99 11 months ago
I think the parents should let kid decide by him/herself once she/he is old enough to understand. my parents offered to get me cochlear when i was 5 years old. but i always say no & they respected. until now I finally decide to get cochlear, only just less than a month ago. sounds' are on for 2nd day now today. I admit sounds are annoying. but i think it might be worthwhile because it will help me communicate with hearing world better, same time in deaf world.
spicychick1987 1 year ago
adult should have choice also deaf child have choice want or not want it their body choice ...often hearing parent harder to accept to deaf same idea gay and lesbian no different ..myself hard of hearing/ deaf ..I plan get cochlear implant on my right ear is deafness so it my choice want to still always be me deaf person as well ..I very respect people who are ..cant change people life.
limdaf 1 year ago