I love the way you explained the ability to adapt!! Us hearing people rely so much on sound that we don't pick up on how many other cues there are related to sudden noises, especially social ones and being 'tuned-in' to other people. Thanks for all your videos!
UR COMEDY IS SO GOOOOOD 😂🤣🤣🤣 I love seeing someone who is just so unafraid to be themselves! And you should never be afraid to be who you are! You are an inspiring individual because of your attitude and creativity! I follow you for the fun, adventurous, wholesome content but I really enjoy learning from your experiences and perspectives! Best of luck in wherever life takes you!
Yes! Problem solving is so important when you have a disability! The creative ways people of all kinds find to do stuff that doesn't come naturally to them is so, so interesting to me. The creativity and ingenuity of humans is amazing! (And animals too, even, I read about a corvid who had a broken beak and couldn't preen himself, so he learned how to find a rock the perfect shape to do so and essentially found a little prosthetic for himself!) When you're disabled, there certainly things you just can't do, but there's also way more things that are difficult, but people have figured out an alternative way to make them still possible. For instance, I'm hard of hearing, and I use a lot of lip reading, but I also use another tactic for my phone to catch what I don't hear: I can guess the parts of words I miss from the vibrations I feel from the speakers! Not all the time, and I certainly can't do it without at least some sound to give me context, but it helps a lot when lip reading isn't an option, as well as in conjunction with it. I got excited recently, because I'm trying to learn Norwegian (fun but challenging, especially with dyslexia on top of being hard of hearing), and though I only have the vocabulary of about a 3 year old in Norwegian (and probably not to par with a 3 year old's grammatical abilities, but I'm trying), I recently started being able to guess some of the words I know by their vibrations on my phone speakers! I only realized consciously that it's something I do when I did it for Norwegian the first time, because before then when I used it for English it was always unconscious. I always kind of lightly press my fingers to my phone, and certain words vibrate in different patterns or different pitches. I'm pretty good at bone conduction (basically the tactile feeling of sound vibrating your skeleton), so certain pitches of sound, I can feel in specific places on my hand and finger bones, or if it's louder, in individual vertebrae or sections of my skull or on different places on my ribs or arms and legs. Or, sounds that don't quite reach my bones but I just feel exteriorly with my skin can also be a clue for what kind of sound it is. I don't really know how to explain it in more detail since it's kind of an intuitive thing and also individual people have their own pitch and cadence and patterns of vibrations, and I kind of have to figure out in the moment what a specific pattern of vibrations mean alongside their location. But to me, something like that is as important for fluency for me as understanding grammar rules, and lip reading is just as important as my ability to understand what I hear. Honestly it's kind of fun to see when I can guess a word by the bits of it I hear and what I can feel, like a puzzle! ... But, some of those more subtle sounds are really giving me a hard time. I learned the words for shirt, the shirt, skirt, and the skirt (skjorte, skjorta, skjørt, skjørtet) a few months ago and they still all sound almost exactly the same to me (the -et in skjørtet sounds like an "eh", and in these particular words it's really hard for me to hear the difference between "o" and "ø") and I still have no idea how to prounce them differently from each other or tell the difference when I hear them but don't see them written, send help.
Quick question: how much would you say the cochlear implant helps. Like with 100% being "I'm not disabled anymore with this" and 0% being "I wish I didn't have it"
Hey, my friend’s got cochlears and she explains it like this: No matter how well they work, Cochlears will never make you 100% hear normally again. What they do is help you hear pitches of sounds and make out what people are saying. My friend says it is very robotic-like. For example, when us hearing people listen to the sound of rain, it sounds clear, natural, and relaxing. When my friend hears rain sounds, it sounds fuzzy and has static - not really relaxing at all. I guess a good way to explain it is that Cochlear Implants help you hear things and understand the world around you in a very unnatural way; it doesn’t necessarily sound good! 😂
Hey, love your channel. I am very curious about your accent. I hear you have an American accent and that is fascinating to me! English is my second language and I have a very clear non-native accent (hispanic). Could you explain a little how you learned to speak, cadence and inflexions?? All the best!
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You killed me at "I'm a wizard, Harry." 😂😂😂
Me too
I'll show you magic
That got me too 😂
I love the way you explained the ability to adapt!! Us hearing people rely so much on sound that we don't pick up on how many other cues there are related to sudden noises, especially social ones and being 'tuned-in' to other people. Thanks for all your videos!
im a wizard harry. perfecttt lineee
You are adorable and amazing. , people learn to adapt under the craziest circumstances. 🥰
Its already been said but your glowing and bright smile and happiness just irradiates off you, thanks for giving me something to appreciate
I don't know if you could be any more adorable!
Ur so pretty 😭😭💕
"im a wizard, harry" 😂😂😂 perfect
You’re amazingggg. That personality doeeee
Oml I absolutely love watching you. I swear you are so awesome and it’s just fun to watch your videos because it brings life to my day ❤
UR COMEDY IS SO GOOOOOD 😂🤣🤣🤣
I love seeing someone who is just so unafraid to be themselves! And you should never be afraid to be who you are! You are an inspiring individual because of your attitude and creativity!
I follow you for the fun, adventurous, wholesome content but I really enjoy learning from your experiences and perspectives! Best of luck in wherever life takes you!
That’s really cool how technology can help. It helps you adapt to what’s CC around you
Absolutely, it's amazing what humans can adapt to given different situations. It's how we got to where we are today :)
Yes! Problem solving is so important when you have a disability! The creative ways people of all kinds find to do stuff that doesn't come naturally to them is so, so interesting to me. The creativity and ingenuity of humans is amazing! (And animals too, even, I read about a corvid who had a broken beak and couldn't preen himself, so he learned how to find a rock the perfect shape to do so and essentially found a little prosthetic for himself!) When you're disabled, there certainly things you just can't do, but there's also way more things that are difficult, but people have figured out an alternative way to make them still possible.
For instance, I'm hard of hearing, and I use a lot of lip reading, but I also use another tactic for my phone to catch what I don't hear: I can guess the parts of words I miss from the vibrations I feel from the speakers! Not all the time, and I certainly can't do it without at least some sound to give me context, but it helps a lot when lip reading isn't an option, as well as in conjunction with it. I got excited recently, because I'm trying to learn Norwegian (fun but challenging, especially with dyslexia on top of being hard of hearing), and though I only have the vocabulary of about a 3 year old in Norwegian (and probably not to par with a 3 year old's grammatical abilities, but I'm trying), I recently started being able to guess some of the words I know by their vibrations on my phone speakers! I only realized consciously that it's something I do when I did it for Norwegian the first time, because before then when I used it for English it was always unconscious. I always kind of lightly press my fingers to my phone, and certain words vibrate in different patterns or different pitches. I'm pretty good at bone conduction (basically the tactile feeling of sound vibrating your skeleton), so certain pitches of sound, I can feel in specific places on my hand and finger bones, or if it's louder, in individual vertebrae or sections of my skull or on different places on my ribs or arms and legs. Or, sounds that don't quite reach my bones but I just feel exteriorly with my skin can also be a clue for what kind of sound it is. I don't really know how to explain it in more detail since it's kind of an intuitive thing and also individual people have their own pitch and cadence and patterns of vibrations, and I kind of have to figure out in the moment what a specific pattern of vibrations mean alongside their location.
But to me, something like that is as important for fluency for me as understanding grammar rules, and lip reading is just as important as my ability to understand what I hear. Honestly it's kind of fun to see when I can guess a word by the bits of it I hear and what I can feel, like a puzzle! ... But, some of those more subtle sounds are really giving me a hard time. I learned the words for shirt, the shirt, skirt, and the skirt (skjorte, skjorta, skjørt, skjørtet) a few months ago and they still all sound almost exactly the same to me (the -et in skjørtet sounds like an "eh", and in these particular words it's really hard for me to hear the difference between "o" and "ø") and I still have no idea how to prounce them differently from each other or tell the difference when I hear them but don't see them written, send help.
“I’m a wizard Harry” gosh you’re so funny lol
I love my CI Bluetooth , thanks for the vid
Quick question: how much would you say the cochlear implant helps. Like with 100% being "I'm not disabled anymore with this" and 0% being "I wish I didn't have it"
Hey, my friend’s got cochlears and she explains it like this: No matter how well they work, Cochlears will never make you 100% hear normally again. What they do is help you hear pitches of sounds and make out what people are saying. My friend says it is very robotic-like. For example, when us hearing people listen to the sound of rain, it sounds clear, natural, and relaxing. When my friend hears rain sounds, it sounds fuzzy and has static - not really relaxing at all. I guess a good way to explain it is that Cochlear Implants help you hear things and understand the world around you in a very unnatural way; it doesn’t necessarily sound good! 😂
@@Mxncheriithank you for the explanation! 😊 Even though it may still be hard to "visualise". But your explanation did kinda help.
young ppl can adapt to almost anything
I’m thinking now with neura link, hearing will be givin back to people who never could.
I like your freckles 🙂
I’m a wizard harry made me lol
You are so cool
Hey, love your channel. I am very curious about your accent. I hear you have an American accent and that is fascinating to me! English is my second language and I have a very clear non-native accent (hispanic).
Could you explain a little how you learned to speak, cadence and inflexions??
All the best!
I believe she went through a lot of training with a speech therapist!
God you are so beautiful
She’s cute
I’ve heard that a lot of people with cochlear implants hear things as very robotic, which is really interesting to me. Has that been your experience?
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Gooooood your perfecttttt
I don't know how some people make it to adulthood with such ignorance.
Ur so funny
Your implant has Bluetooth,so in theory someone could Bluetooth harass you with stuff?!😒🤔😂