DeafGamer189

Lots of annoying high-pitched sounds at first, but as I trained my ears it got better. It wasn't easy.

I got my first implant when I was ten months old, so about three years of speech therapy made it so that people couldn't even notice I'm deaf.

I have heard some from the adults, but none from the children. I think it's because Cochlear markets their implants poorly and says they will work perfectly for adults, when in reality you have to work in therapy for a long time to get it to work.

I have a piece that rests on my ear, and a magnet that sticks on my head a little farther from the ear. The surgery is comprised of putting a magnet into my head so that it can connect to my cochlea.

At first, everything you hear is noise at the same frequency. As therapy continues, you are able to discern different pitches and so on until you can discern speech. That's the highest level; most adults can't reach this because they're too old. Their brain has already gotten too conditioned to hearing nothing.

My parents wanted me to have an ordinary life, I guess. They had tried implanting my mom but since she was too old it never helped. I assume they didn't want that to happen to me.

ASL and SSL have very minor differences. I know a little bit, like Monday being signed with an L instead of an M, since in Spanish it's Lunes.

Your last question made me smile. Yes, she actually does. Signing often is good exercise.