justmerriwether

“Take his clothes home and wash them”

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I’m so touched hearing an employer caring this much about one of their employees.

Why is this such a rarity that I’m like tearing up? So sad… but I’m so happy OP had one of the good ones

Yeah, OP. We all miss your soft hairless ass.

Hey prison mike, what was the worst part about prison?

You left because the risk was too low...?

Cochlears do not, by any means, recreate sound in the way the human ear can. It's totally different and requires one to entirely relearn how to interpret the new stimulus. There's a vid on youtube that gives an approximation of how it sounds, it shouldn't be hard to find.

Also, cochlears are most effective when given to young kids, so they can learn to recognize and 'translate' the new stimulus while their cognitive language skills are still soaking things up like sponges. Every year older once you are out of the magic period between 2-5 or so (if I'm remembering correctly) it gets harder and harder to be able to adapt to cochlears.

There's a documentary, I think Sound and Fury, that goes in depth on the issues of cochlear implants, their effectiveness at old age, and the controversy concerning them within the deaf community. An elderly couple decide to get cochlears together, and they really don't end up getting much use out of them. They are well set in their way of life without hearing, and the cochlear just made incomprehensible noise to them. They didn't want to commit to the tedious regimen set by the doctors requiring them to wear the implants as often as possible and really sit down and learn a new language, more or less. They more often just took them off, finding them bothersome. If I recall correctly, at the movie's end, they never really commit to learning how to use the cochlears all that much and stick to their old ways, which they seemed to be fine and very happy with.

I hope this is relevant, interesting, and comprehensible. I'm a tad sauced and I haven't been an ASL major for a couple years now...