What matters deafness of the ears, when the mind hears?

Now, now. This site hasn’t suddenly gone smutty (always wanted to use this word, and now comes the chance!).

It’s on - a little bit - about Deaf artist Matt Daigle winning a national (American) contest to design a logo/symbol for breast-feeding, and - a lot - about the rights of nursing mothers to breast-feed in public.

I support the cause, by the way.

It’s crazy that celebrities who are practically undressed are allowed to grace our teevee screens, while people frown upon mothers feeding their babies in public. So what if they feed them milk from their breasts? Get over it, oh self-righteous prudes!

Have a look at the winning logo and the article.

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Hiatus over! (I hope!)

A deaf blogger’s experience of going from analog to digital aids, as what I did over the past 2 years for both my ears.

Another I-can-so-relate post!

I read the blogs by people who just got cochlear implants, and much of what they’ll write about is hearing this sound or understanding that. One of them described how she could hear the sound of scotch tape being ripped off the dispenser by someone else in the room. I can hear that kind of thing with a good pair of HA, but I just find it annoying. I really don’t care about noises in general; for me sound is strictly functional — I want to hear what people are saying. Most other noises simply irritate me. That’s why I don’t wear them much when no one else is around or when I’m just walking around by myself.

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