I am the cuckoo in the nest, the changeling in the crib. I am the deaf child dropped into a world of sound, by herself. I am the child who perfected her mimicry to be indistinguishable from the rest. It is a camouflage easy to maintain with distance but which cracks […]

Rush Limbaugh, and what he represents. But even I was rather shocked at his lampooning of Michael J. Fox (see here) in which Limbaugh makes fun of Fox’s current level of disability, also implying that Fox is faking it.
I am not a religious person, but in this case, I know there is a circle […]

Update
Seems that WaPo has finally provided a transcript. Good. Now the only thing left is the complete bizarreness of a president-to-be of the deaf university in this country choosing to be interviewed on a radio broadcast…
So here’s irony on top of irony on top of …
It seems that at Gallaudet university, there is […]

It may shock some of you to learn this, but most health care plans do not cover hearing aids. I have no idea why. If glasses are covered, why not HA? But my current insurance actually has coverage. It’s through Kaiser Permanente, although I don’t know if it’s available to anyone […]

OK, I want to highlight a vlog that I absolutely adore!
In this day and age of vlogs, I’ve been largely shut out. To begin with go here pick out a vlog at random and just see how long it takes to find one that’s captioned. Ironically enough, neither can I make heads or tails […]

If life gives you fences…PLAY VOLLYBALL!!
via:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/28/playing_volleyball_a.html

OK, this is fucking hilarious:
Defining who is “deaf enough” always gives me chest pain. For one thing, that’s a bludgeon the Deaf Culture uses to beat many deafened people with. Whether they intend to leave deafened people bleeding on the sidewalk outside the deaf club (figuratively), that is a frequent emotional consequence, and I personally […]

January 2006 was supposed to be the time when all programs would be 100% captioned, as per the ADA in the United States. This has not happened, in fact the FCC just granted 300 permanent exemptions. Granted, most of these are for religious based affiliations, but I’m more concerned with the precedent being […]

Jesus. Take a look: smoke alarms

http://www.deaf-culture-online.com/hard-of-hearing.html