Ex-deaf people, what sound surprised you the most when you started hearing?
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I'm surprised how many people think plants make sound, to the point feel ripped off. Plants should make sound
They do make sounds all right, just not ones we humans can hear
its like the deaf version of Paris Syndrome
TF are they supposed to sound like? A constant low hum?
Most animals can hear plants as they make high pitched noises when they’re touched. We just aren’t those animals.
A lot of people who have had Near death experiences talk about how the plants would sing. In a weird way it connects.
OP *talking about how powerlines don't make noise*
Me *looks up in concern*
depends on how many volts are going through it, if there's 500,000 volts going through it, you can walk under it and actually hear it but when it comes to just every day 120/240v, no not unless you have superhuman hearing
100k volt lines are quite loud, maybe its eastern europe power line quality
Some people have sensitive ears plus the vibrations and a lot of things sound horribly loud that most people can't hear.
I don't tend to hear power lines themselves that often, but power transformers definitely make quite a bit of noise.
See I'm on the spectrum and grew up with extremely acute vision and hearing. I can hear fluorescent light tubes warm up, and the buzz and flicker they make when they're about to die sets my teeth on edge. I have tinnitus now, constant for the past decade, and my day to day ability to hear electronics and power in the lines has diminished drastically, thank God. But whenever I get within a certain distance of a transformer or high power lines I just get so agitated. The sound makes me so physically uncomfortable. It trips my danger alarm like nothing else.
There's a bunch of stories about noise being overwhelming. They now know the autistic "the world is too noisy and I want to rip my skin off" experience
Yes!!! Thank you exactly i could do without the chewing, farting,sirens,loud truck hirns,motor cycles and car engines, blasting music, generators, etc. This sounds actually hurt and are anxiety inducing at times. But i do understand a deaf person not taking those sounds for granted as well as maybe finding them disturbing.
🤝🤝 electronics are personal attacks against my senses and yet i'm so dependent on them 😞
@@ThirrinDiamond so fucking true aughhh
I've adjusted as I've aged, and now have had tinnitus for the last decade. I would hear it in silent spaces growing up, but to have it 24/7, especially as it worsens with my chronic migraines, I get so overwhelmed by the whine sometimes and have to play some grey or pink noise to kinda cover it up. Think of it like that one person who hums in the public restroom to cover the sound of themself peeing. When air pressure fronts move through it can be insufferable and since the sound is in my brain, or due to damage in my inner ears, I can't cover my ears or plug them to make it stop. That actually just makes it more intense because then it's totally isolated. Sometimes background noises are overwhelming, but other times I really want them louder to cover the ringing. I couldn't watch fireworks as a child, and I mean even the little ones meant for home use. I'd have to sit inside the house and sit on the first step where I could kinda look out but keep my fingers in my ears. Migraines heighten my sensitivity to lights, sounds, and smells, so as someone on the spectrum they definitely wear me out to the point of exhaustion some days. Some days I'd love to dig one or both of my eyeballs out with a grapefruit spoon, and my eardrums would be next. I absolutely HATE hearing my cats crinkling on paper or plastic. Actually, my oldest cat will seriously go out of his way to find something like cellophane plastic to chew on when he wants to get my attention because I will wake from the sleep of the dead to yell at him to stop because the dang crinkling makes me want to rip out my own teeth,
The high pitch whine of power substations, fluorescent light tubes, and just friggin regular electricity through my charging cable physically upsets me. Like how some dogs get up and pant and pace when they hear storms rolling through, some days the sound of a loved one snoring or breathing makes me physically uncomfortable and I do have to get up and move around because it's like the zing of an exposed tooth nerve.
I think my audiologist is incompetent. A few years ago, she said I was losing my hearing. She said she’d call me to arrange treatment. But I haven’t heard from her since.
boom boom!
You gotta pursue medical appointments, they won't actively try.
@@Lovagechannel
It was a joke.
I hadn't "heard" from her because I was deaf (in the joke).
@@davidforthoffer9180 ah, nice one.
@@LovagechannelI see you think as well as he hears
I was surprised that more people didn't talk about the breathing noise
I know right! I'm not hearing impaired but the sound of my own breathing can be bothersome. Trying to go to sleep when your nose is whistling just won't happen!
And you can't even complain or you get in trouble for making up excuses for not sleeping. Same with heartbeat and my stomach rumbling.
@@v3ru586I'm hearing. Hearing my heartbeat at night is annoying.
@@s.h.6858fr
I need at least SOME white noise (most often a fan) to drown out my own breathing, otherwise it literally keeps me from falling asleep.
Worse still, I'm realizing I've started to snore. How? By waking myself up the instant I start. The other half of my lifespan is going to be a major headache...
"that people could hear my farts."
😂😂😂
Its the Silent but Violent that are the worst🤣
@@josephlathrop1914 I always heard it referred to as "silent, but deadly," or SBD's for short, lol! I also have heard farts referred to as "barking spiders," LMAO!
@@californiacobra527 ive heard both those too
@@californiacobra527I have never heard the barking spiders one, how did that one come about? o.o
Story 3: "They're big and alive as well as powerful and strong" Loved it xD
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I loved that part. I was like, "Yes! This person understands trees! Just not how they sound, lol." 😅
I met a deaf from birth girl once that got hearing aids at 16-17 and thought the sun made noise, specially during sunrise and sunset and that’s why everyone liked them so much.
technically the sun does make noise, we just can't hear it ^^'
*screaming sun from rick and Morty*
Yeah but she’s not EX-deaf now is she? She’s still deaf when she takes it off.
"Everything makes noise, how do you sleep?" Well I have sensory prossing problems and hear all that. And not well, not well.
Same here i hear it all. The guy hacking outside daily and the chewing and generators 😭😭😭
Can’t imagine trying to one up a deaf person 😂
Spd and autism crowd shout out. On days when I've been stressed, or I get overwhelmed or overtired, then family snoring in another room will keep me up, and my cat chews on cellophane specifically because he knows I will get up to stop him if I hear him chewing on it. He will destroy something inside a cellophane bag just to make me get up and redistribute the dry food in the bowls. Tinnitus is now my partner tainting everything and every moment with a high pitched squeal. Every. Little. Noise.
Ear plugs. Took me a while to get used to them. Then I got anxious if I dont have any. THEN near-death sepsis gave me tinnitus thst has no cure, so I started listening to YT or audiobooks instead of ear plugs. So now I have to use headphones if someone is sharing the bedroom.
Earplugs and/or noise isolating windows can help. I would know, I'm on the spectrum and have sensory issues too
I was deaf from 2 - 6. I lost my hearing gradually, depending on frequency. I lost the ability to hear men’s voices before women’s. The morning after my surgery, there was just a massive cacophony of sound. I couldn’t distinguish between them. Then the doctors did their ward round. I was ok with the female doctor talking, although I still had to lip read and line up sound with vision. Then the male doctor said something. I’d forgotten that men have deeper voices. I was so scared, I hid under the bed.
We lived with my grandparents and after I got home, mum’s younger brother said he was going upstairs to listen to his music for a bit. Up until that point, I had only experienced it by hugging speakers and feeling the vibrations. I asked him, “What’s music?” I will never forget the look of sadness and profound empathy on his face as he said, “Oh my god, she’s forgotten. Poor kid”. He bent down to my level and said, “Come with me. I’m going to show you something amazing”. He sat me on a huge red swivel chair and put a large pair of headphones on me. They were too big and I remember having to hold them in place. He looked really stressed as he was rapidly sorting through his record collection. I asked him what was wrong and he said, “I have to get this right. You’re going to remember this moment for the rest of your life.” He eventually found one he deemed perfect. I heard the scratchy sound of the record starting. The most incredible sound filled my ears and I was transported to another world. It was so beautiful, the music, the lyrics, everything. It has a profound poignancy and yearning in both the minor chords, the lyrics themselves and the amazing voice that conveyed so much emotion. It touched a place I never knew I had and pulled on my heart strings. I sat there with tears rolling down my face as I listened to Roberta Flack’s ‘Killing me Softly’.
For a long time, I thought music was just that one song lol. But even know when I hear it, I am transported back to the 6 year old hearing music for the first time and I feel the same cascade of emotions wash over me. Music has a special place in my heart. I’m not saying it doesn’t for people who haven’t been deaf. But there is an additional level of emotional complexity when it comes to as an unexpected gift as opposed to being a background noise. I appreciate the beauty and feel immense gratitude for something I couldn’t just take for granted. It was a privilege I lost for 4 years. Even now when I hear a new song, I can’t appreciate fully unless I’m wearing headphones and completely immerse myself in the whole listening experience.
We take all things for granted so easily. That is why mindfulness is a popular topic. I've recently taken breaks in nature and intently listen to all sounds, especially the birds and I imagine myself hearing the things I hear for the first time. They do indeed sound very different than when they are in the background noises of my consciousness. And I've also tried listening to songs I like with full attention like I've never heard the song. It is not the same as actually hearing the birds or the song for the first time, but you discover more elements in that moment. Forget you are a human, forget you have an age, sex, siblings, duties etc just for a while if possible. In some sense I think you got a perspective of this loss of something like hearing and then getting it back that I can only imagine but not experience. But we all should be grateful for hearing regardless of having had it deprived.
Aww bless him, he was trying to make it perfect! 🤗
That made me tear up. What a wonderful uncle and what a profound and touching story. I get goosebumps when listening to music. I'm just autistic and weird though. 😅
Reading this got me crying. That is so, so precious, I can’t imagine how amazing that must have been. I can try to imagine and it’s enough it get me crying
What a sweet story. 😢now I want to cry
Years ago, I worked at a mail processing facility. My boss would see me coming about 20 ft away, and he would flick his hearing aids off! It always cracked me up...❤️😆
The squeak of styrofoam. It's the strangest sound ever.
Also the worst one 🤢
AHHHHHHHH WHHHYYYYY OMG that's the ABSOLUTE WORST It makes my teeth hurt and my butt pucker
This video reminds me of how lucky I am to have always had good hearing.
And also makes you realize how much noise your brain filters out to the point that you don’t even notice them
@@Allantitanunfortunately mines doesn't lol.
@@Allantitanexcept for this silly little thing called Autism haha
@@sociallyineptsnapperi'm high functioning
Someone believed that the sun makes sound
It does, the sound just doesn't carry through space
It's actually quite violently loud, sounds like an inferno (which it basically is) there are sound recordings of the sun on youtube if you want to listen to it
It does make sound, you just can’t hear it because there’s no atmosphere in space. Its loudness could be compared to a jet engine.
It does! You just wont exist by the time you get to hear it.
If there was anything for the sound to travel through it would be loud af.
yess og narrator back on his turn on rotationnn. WWWWW
Wasn't there a message asking for a temporary narrator within this last week due to an emergency? I hope the other narrator is okay.
Wait. I know this isn't the same but I have TERRIBLE eyesight, when I first got my glasses I was astonished. I mean, I can actually see every individual leaf on the tree? Everyone in my family has glasses/contacts.
I HAD THE SAME REACTION! The first time I got glasses when I was around 12, I was amazed that I could see the individual leaves. Trees were always a blob of green lol
@@firesayer23grumpybuns75 I felt like I was seeing grass for the first time! So weird!
Got glasses in third grade. The leaves! I remember being surprised and happy I could see individual leaves!
Jeez, as someone with autism, I lot of the things people found annoying or grating in this video are my own personal sensory issues. For example: I can’t handle the sound of people eating, sometimes even myself if it is one of my “bad” days. My older sister and I also have had tinnitus since we were very young (my father worked on race cars with my grandpa) so we both have the lovely experience of hearing “eeeeeeeee” 24/7 if it is quiet. We both have to sleep with fans on in our rooms, and when the power shuts off due to power lines getting destroyed from the weather, I physically can’t sleep until my fan comes back on.
TLDR: I have autism and many sensory issues similar to the ones in this video, and tinnitus can go kick rocks.
Same with the fan and power outages. It's an instant wake up when it goes off.
I have autism and my mom is deaf. I always say I wish I had a CI so I could turn it all off when I wanted to, lol.
I love that so many people thought plants make a sound like a chime or soft bell ❤❤ Some trees do make sound, Eucalyptus trees sound like dolphins talking.
Okay, the deaf kids laughing at OP dancing and thinking that they were hiding their laughter by covering their mouths... is hilarious!
A different vein to this. I got diagnosed with adhd in my 20s. Taking the medication for the first time almost made me cry/freak out. For the first time in my life my brain was silent. I couldn’t believe how easy it was for neurotypical people to concentrate. But the sound of silence was eerie to me, it felt like I was dead.
That's what ADHD medication is supposed to do? My meds must be all wrong then.
@@SaxyLament it did for me, yes. I can’t get my meds atm though 🥲. I miss the sound of silence.
Same!!!!
Ok, so we had a long journey to find the right meds for me. They helped one issue while creating another. I didn’t notice my mental health declining because I could focus. It didn’t make things quiet in my head, it wound them so tight that the sound became static. It eventually made me super sick. By the time we realized what was causing it, I was a young adult. I got off that med and got a new one, went through a few till I found the right one. I was in my 20’s when I finally got my first dose of reasonable ADHD meds. And It… this…? This? Is how people live…? Not in constant… anxiety? Not in constant… brain-sounds? I sat for days, in retrospective awe, shaken, crying in an amazed hopeful relief.
My mind still is kinda noisy at times, and I’m kinda used to the chaos. But the silence, wow… I can choose what I wanna think about, and it’s absolutely insane. I feel really understood, reading this post.
@@ruthiewitter569 honestly, it’s amazing when you find the right meds for you. I was lucky that they got them right first time with methylphenidate/concerta (I paid privately) but I was transferred over to another psychiatrist (NHS) and I asked to try Elvanse because I’d not tried it privately due to the cost. They switched me to Elvanse and it helped at first but I got really ill, lost loads of weight and couldn’t take them for about a month. Now, side effects are horrible and they don’t really help with my focus and on top of all that, there’s a national shortage, so I’m currently unmedicated. My prescribing nurse left and unfortunately, the meds weren’t helping with remembering to attend appointments, so I was discharged and I have to wait another 2 years to switch back to methylphenidate. It’s my own fault, I shouldn’t have messed with my medication.
I remember the days of methylphenidate fondly now, with my quiet brain and my ability to switch focus.
I’m glad they’re working for you :)
I do sort of understand the people who suddenly have to deal with trying to concentrate in an environment with so many noises you're supposed to 'just tune out'. I've never been deaf or hard of hearing, but I do have an annoying thing where if there are other sounds I'm not trying to focus on, it's all I can hear. Conversations in the classroom while the teacher was talking or while I was trying to work, meant nothing would get done as there was too much noise, and don't get me started on the sound of pencils and paper moving during an exam! I think it may be related to auditory processing disorder (I am very much not neurotypical either way) but who knows? Either way, I commiserate.
I get that from having adhd
I'm autistic and I have ADHD so I can relate! Certain sounds and sensations can be very distracting or so horrible they make my nerves feel like they were tasered. The sound of tearing tape off of cardboard is the WORST
Same. I hate resturants. I Can hear everything. Ppl thought i was crazy when i Said i cant sleep with a pillow with feathers bc they make too much noise
my foster dad couldn't hear differences in tones of voice for the LONGEST time. everyone had kind of a monotone, slightly soft voice to him. when he got an upgrade to his hearing aids, he was genuinely surprised to hear that my voice was so deep, and he quote "didn't expect girls voices to be able to be so deep". wow, thanks paps :')
Story 14 reminds me of a story my mom told me. I was born with terrible eyesight and couldn’t see well until I was 5 and got my first pair of glasses, on the drive home I was just staring out the window quietly until we went past some trees and my mom hears me say “look at all the leaves.” It’s nice seeing detail rather than random splotches of color in random shapes.
😂 @ Story 53 reminded me of my friends sister. she was arguing with her parents in ASL when i was visiting as you can imagine hands where flying. she ended it in the best way by closing her eyes and throwing her self down face first on the couch 🤣🤣🤣🤣
One of the most wholesome things I've ever heard from people getting to hear for the 1st time is learning that cats purring is audible.
Weird how I can relate to the stories of people having difficulties concentrating or "tuning out" sounds etc. I have normal hearing but am neuroatypical - adhd with some audio processing difficulties.
I too both listen and lip read, and group discussions and noisy surrounding can be quite exhausting.
But yeah, that sounds just like adhd - not being able to NOT notice everything around you.
I'm likely on autism spectrum as well, but not diagnosed.
AuDHD here and yep, related to a lot of this lol!
SAME LOL
ADHD diagnosed - Autism is likely
Imagine being able to just switch off the adhd "noise" like a hearing aid 😅
On the bicycle one, I know people who attach a product called "Cat Ears" (or something to that effect) to the straps of their helmets right in front of their ears. Wind noise can overwhelm the sounds of oncoming traffic and make bicycle riding more dangerous. The Cat Ear thingies help lower the wind noise. I think I should get a pair before my next bike ride...
My sister was born deaf, and I mean totally deaf. When her work would benefit from her being able to hear she decided to get an implant and actually fit the bill for an experimental one that uses the existing eardrums and cochleas. I was there and when I whispered "Hi, sis." she broke down. We went to a park and I let her experience it.
She was surprised by a butterfly. She thought they made noise when they flew. And then we went to a crappy food truck and she got her favorite bean burrito. She was laughing for 20 minutes when the musical fruit did their thing, mostly because whenever she settled down it would pick up again when another note would come.
But something that surprised me was that she hated birds, saying that the sound "hit me in the brain." But she loves Bach and Tchaikovsky.
Congrats on finding a genuinely wholesome story topic. This is a fun one. Well, mostly.
These remind me of when I first got glasses at 13. Looking back (pun) I think that I had bad eyesight since I was little, but of course you don’t have a frame of reference to recognize that. I figured it out in 8th grade when I was halfway back in my class and couldn’t see the stuff other kids could see from the back. Anyway, once I had them I noticed I could see the tops of trees in the distance, and that the ground was further away than I thought, etc.
I Got glasses at 19. Wich i had probably needed for a little bit. My dad always Said if i cant see the leaves i should get my eyes checked but i Can see them just not as Well as i thought i could. The reason i Got them checked was bc i couldnt read the subtitles on my tv. My dad Got his checked bc he couldnt see the scored when he watched football haha
As someone who needs but can't afford hearing aids... I learned to read lips! Tinnitus is real and deafening!
YES OG NARRATOR
The stories some people are telling remind me of what I hear about my mom's coworker who has an cochrela implant. The coworker understandably complained how exhausting hearing is. Why I understand her? Hearing things you never heard before is like hearing sounds you hate as an hearing person except you haven't learned to ignore them yet.
I would be dissapointed if i found out trees didtn make a sound when they grew either
using fertilizer in plants vs zombies
When I was younger, I got a lot of ear infections and my parents noticed that I often turned things up really loud to hear them, so I got tubes/grommets in my ears at about 7. That afternoon, I was in the living room playing on the family computer with cotton balls and bandages on my ears. My mom called my name from the other room, and I nearly hit the ceiling it was so loud! Turned out I was never lying about not hearing her calling me: I honestly hadn't been able to hear her.
I do like that there are some stories with people who don't want the hearing and go against it, because that goes against that belief that disablied people are helpless and need things like hearing to live a happy life, which just isn't true
hell yes!
I’m not Deaf, but I am vision impaired to the point I can’t see or really function without my glasses. My mom told me a story of when I got my first pair of glasses at age 3, and she took me outside, I kept pointing at things and saying, “wook!” Apparently I was fixated on the trees and individual leaves.
This is me at 15 lmao
0:48,
Some power lines are noisy, like around cell phone towers - they buzz constantly, louder than a refrigerator.
Some trees are noisy, like redwoods - they creak in the wind, depending on their size/ the stress.
So, op was right about both of those things.
One sound that surprised me: Ships howl at sea, when the air moves through the geometries of the upper-deck. It’s kinda eerie too.
Fun fact: I am a hearing person but was partially deaf for over a year due to fluid being built up in my ears. It feels like having water in your ears that you can’t get out. The doctors worried my hearing would be permanently damaged and it is a little off in one ear but for the most part it’s great, I still hear better than most people I know and I go get fluid in my ears from time to time but thanks to medicine it dries out.
And that's why noise pollution is a thing.
"I can hear the s at the ends of words"
That right there is a glimpse into an almost alien perspective. A real treasure.
As a hearing person, I never really thought about the lack of clarity in people's voices. When I meet people for the first time, it's hard to remember their voices for the first few encounters. But this randomness to people's voices is what makes singing interesting
I have always been a hearing person. I get so overwhelmed by sounds sometimes, so I can definitely understand why that one person was so overwhelmed they got rid of the hearing aids.
The granddad with the crickets story was funny stop that lamp
With how many people assumed plants making noises, I immediately had to think of The Elder Scrolls and the Nirnroot, that would make a soft chiming sound, so you'd be able to find that rare plant for potions.
Not sounding like what you thought you'd sound like... Even as a hearing person, i can relate to this. The sound of my voice when recorded sounds nothing like my voice from my head (to my ears).
TL:DR (I figured out why my grandbaby can't read and really need to gush. I want to tell the planet this happy news. Just ignore me.)
At the age of 12 a teacher finally stood her ground against my mother and insisted I needed my eyes checked. A month later I got my first pair of glasses. It. Was. BLISS. I remember oohing and aaahing over all the street signs, license plates, and the BIG ONE - McDonald's arches. I had NO idea what they were. The world was an amazing place. I saw birds and dogs and deer and people's faces.
Well, two days ago I was tutoring my 10 yo granddaughter in reading for the third time - something she's seriously struggled with since she began school and I've jumped in to help. My daughter is a wonderful mama and had her evaluated for vision and reading disorders. They diagnosed the kiddo with ADHD (because she practically climbed INTO a book to read it and couldn't sit still in her chair) and dyslexia (because she said all the letters blurred together). But I saw her trying to read my computer screen, not be able to get close enough, and gravitate to my giant screen. Then she read what I was pointing to, no problem.
I knew this. I'd experienced this.
I immediately began working her through sight exercises without telling her what I was doing. She did her normal fold-up-in-shame posture with hopelessness in her eyes when she couldn't read. Then I handed her an old pair of my glasses. I wear trifocals. I taught her how to shift her head to see through different parts of the glasses and told her to shift her head around until she could see better.
She found the exact spot in just a few seconds. Nailed it. I saw the exact moment she got it. Her posture, facial expression, and everything shifted instantly. Suddenly she was reading EVERYTHING. EASILY. She read all the motivational crap and prayers on my walls. We ran outside and she read all of the writing on our old school bus. She read everything on every car on the property. The joy both of us felt as she finally succeed was such a miracle.
I knelt down and gently said, "Your brain isn't broken, baby girl. It's just your eyes. And that's an easy fix."
She broke down bawling and I hugged her hard and cried (happy tears) too.
When my daughter showed up, we showed her all the 'tricks.' My daughter didn't look happy at ALL and I didn't know how to deal with that at first. I sent my grandbaby outside to look at the world then asked my daughter what was wrong.
She was enraged. Enraged with herself for failing her child. Enraged with the many psychological and educational people who had been misdiagnosing the kiddo for the last four years. Enraged with herself for listening to them. She yelled, "Does she even have dyslexia?!"
I shook my head. "Nope. She reads just fine - when she can see the words. Her eyes are at least as bad as mine were as a kid. Now that she's got a tool, she's reading like a champ." Cue more cussing.
She got a big hug and a lot of reassurance of all the things she did right. She's a great mom and she's been trying so hard. Then came more cussing about the so-called 'experts.' I reminded her that I aced the school's stupid eyesight test every time. Kids compensate. We can't rely on the schools to diagnose anyone. They aren't qualified at all. (The fact that they're still doing that dumb eyesight test in schools after 50 years of failing to figure out issues is a crime. Several years ago I read that many times the teachers blow off kids giving wrong answers as 'attention seeking behavior.' Then why are you bothering with the stupid tests, you morons?! They do the same thing with hearing tests.)
All that happened day before yesterday. She was so excited to see what flying birds really look like. She'd never before seen anything but a moving shadow and she had no idea. Last night she was over the moon when she saw a moth perched on the ceiling. Today we found out that she's actually pretty damn good at spelling when she can see the keyboard. She has refused to take off the glasses except to sleep. As bad as my eyes are, her brain would feel like it were bleeding by now if the 'script were too powerful. Honestly, I think they're a bit weak for her. I had a pretty clean clear view of the first 18 inches when I was young and reading was easy, but she's only got about six. With her eyes more than eight inches from the page, regular print is nothing more than a blur.
Amazing how fast her ADHD has been 'cured.' smh
The eye doc says they can't get her in until October. Absolutely UNACCEPTABLE. I told my daughter to call every damn eye doctor in town to rush this and take her to the library and find the large print books in the meantime.
This is the biggest win of my entire life. The most meaningful thing I've done in the last decade. The kiddo kept saying, "It feels like my birthday today!"
I know, sweetheart. Grandma knows *exactly* how you feel.
I don't know if they are in your area, but I've never had to wait half a year to get into America's Best ( they're the ones with the get an eye exam and two glasses ads).
@@s.h.6858 They don't have one in our town, but there are four in the city just an hour away. I'll tell my daughter about them today! Thank you so much!
I am absolutely DYING to see her with the right prescription. Last night we were all watching a movie and this is the FIRST TIME she's sat calmly on the couch with the family. She's either fighting to sit directly in front of the television or bored and squirming all over the place because she can only hear it.
My daughter has finally worked past her anger well enough to celebrate with us. What a beautiful week this has been.
The medical industry these days sees kids as money bags...
Actually explains why my FIL never wears his hearing aids and just torments my MIL with turning the TV up incredibly loud and they yell to communicate. The world is too noisy on the little things. Poor guy.
OMG I loved this so much! My mom, my dad and my sister are deaf. My mom was actually the 2nd person to get the chocolate implant. My best friend at the time, her little brother was the first. They went to the same specialist and had to travel to Texas (i think) to get them implanted. They were part of the same trail that had 5 people I believe. This was nearly 30 years ago. My mom said EVERYONE sounded like what she assumed Darth Vader sounded like. So human voices in her imagination were, I guess, dark and scary and when she first heard voices with her implants, she was surprised to hear that voices sounded soft and gentle. It's very hard to explain sound interpretations from a deaf person's point of view when they've never heard anything before. She would often freak out when hearing things for the first time.
I didn’t realise that geese were loud. I never heard them before my BAHA but after having them, I could hear these obnoxious honks above me and asked what it was. When my partner said it was the geese, I was blown away. I also thought flags made sounds.
I mean, they do make sounds, but it has to be a certain type of wind
@@sociallyineptsnapper I thought flags and roosters would sound exactly the same. I live in a very rural area and my logic was that roosters have those red flaps and flags also move in the wind. They must make the same sound. I also didn’t know wind made sound. I don’t like how loud it is.
speaking for many people in this comment section, i can say that the majority enjoys the OG narrator over the new one. (im not bashing the narrator. the new one seems like a nice person too, i feel like this kinda job doesnt totally suit the new one) the reason why i enjoy the old narrator so much is because of his calming voice, that sounds nowhere near AI, his personality (he doesnt seem like a scummy person. i would totally be friends with him lol), and the commentary that he adds to stories i feel adds another element to the story.
also i did see the comment left on one of the old videos explaining the new guy
also- on a random note, i think that it would be so cool to see a face reveal for these guys, (although i understand why there isnt)
The flying Geese store is hilarious 😂
You know what I appreciate hearing? This channel.
I know nothing about hearing loss, but I lost my vision for a while and then regained it. After regaining my sight, I was still blind in my dreams for quite a while. It's been years now and I still have some dreams in which I don't see. I wonder if folks who gained hearing have that happen to them. Anyone who gained hearing: Do you still have dreams in which you are deaf?
I’m at, idk maybe story 5, and it just brings tears to my eyes. This is so precious. Life is so precious. Music, the air, the click of my keyboard, it’s all so precious and beautiful. Thank you, OP, for reminding me ❤️
21:30 is that the screaming tree Sherman has been looking for?!
Yessir old narrator
My first reaction when I saw the title was "You can get your hearing back when you're deaf!?"
as a deaf person with a cochlear implant, my thoughts exactly. there is no such thing as ex-deaf. youre always going to be deaf, even if you use hearing aids or cochlear implants. youd be considered ex-deaf if you regained completely natural hearing and do not require assistance from medical equipment to hear. and science isnt quite there yet
Your geese sound was spot on. I have some and was kinda shocked at how good you did it
I found your goose impression delightful 💕
This video made me realize, I might need to get my hearing tested.
Let us know how it goes!
I can empathize so much with these people, but as a visually impaired person who has recently regained my site because one of my conditions got significantly better. In 2022 I had retinal cysts blocking most of my vision and allowing me only light perception for about six months and I started on a new medication that had been clear up for the first few weeks afterwards there was just incredible sensory overload with visual stimulus and my brain had to learn how to see. I still experience sensory overwhelmed sometimes though sometimes. I am grateful to be able to see with what limited vision I still have.
Anyone else with good hearing for their entire life just now noticing noises that you've never really noticed before after listening to this?
As an enjoyer of dubstep, I can't help but assume that a former deaf person would find dubstep to be agonizing
It makes me incredibly happy that "ex-deaf" is a something that exists now
I love these stories!
Story 1 I felt in my soul. My dad can't hear the clocks ticking sounds and he exclusively loves using at least 1 analog clock in almost every room in the house. I'm off at college most of the time but when I come back home for any break I sleep in a room where these clocks keep me up at night, and whenever I move them out of the rooms I can hear them from then my dad gets mad at me and moves them back the next day. I at least convinced him to at least keep the clocks out of the room I sleep in but I can still hear it from the next room over and it drives me nuts. It's literally the equivalent of water drop torcher combined with sleep deprivation. Luckily I have Alexa to play rain or white noise but sometimes I can still hear that ticking when it's at 50% volume and then the rain/white noise is too loud to let me fall asleep. Now I just listen to videos like this one when I am trying to fall asleep cause it's easier to drown out than the ticking and helps keep my mind off the ticking when falling asleep.
This is so damn wholesome
By age 66 my hearing had deteriorated enough to need hearing aids. Day the first one was programmed I got back to the office, started to log back in on computer. Decided I had the loudest keyboard in the state. Got home, the two cats met me as usual. Except, instead of squeaking as I’d thought they did, they were meowing at full volume screaming! Yikes. At 69 I got a BAHA (bone anchored hearing aid) for the ear that was completely deaf. Life altering is the only way to describe it. One lovely side effect: like most hearing impaired people I spoke too loudly. As soon as it was activated my voice volume dropped, without my even thinking about it. However, everyday noises can be overwhelming at times. But, as I cannot hear on the phone without linking the BAHA to my iPhone, I wear them all day, and it can be exhausting. I am so grateful for the technology that let’s me hear.
Oh Imagine not ever hearing music? I couldn’t cope….
I have had a hearing problem with hearing since I was in the army
Just hearing this it made me realize how lucky I am to have gotten hearing aid years ago
The first thing I noticed was birds
The biggest problem is crowds I can’t make since of anything
I have been in restaurants and hear the dishes being washed but can’t understand the person in front of me
I have a similar story, though it is with my sight, rather then my hearing.
All my life I have had sight problems, long story short my eyes were sagging like an old woman's Breast. We thought for the longest time it was those damn video games, to much screen time, etc, etc.
I was at work two years ago, looking at a something I was supposed to trim out, with croplines... supposably. I couldn't see the croplines. Others came over and pointed out the crop lines, but I couldn't see them. I broke down, crying, as it was the first confirmation that in 30 years something was wrong with my sight.
I was crying again last year when I had the surgery done, and learned that lights were not supposed to be long colored streaks, the world had more minut details, and most of all, High Quality Video Games actually look High Quality.
9:17 to be fair I got scared by an ambulance turning on their sirens next to me as well (though I didn’t realize that they were right behind me)
Go to a forest in a storm…they’ll creek for you
hope everyone has a great day
It was almost 26 years ago for me that I got Cochlear implants. And the first thing that I heard was how all the machines in the hospital made a clicking sound when they turned on or off. My absolute dissapointment was in learning momentary switches make the noise and the buzzing sound came from having a first generation decoder having static feedback. Electricity did not infact make noise when its turned on, everything had lights turn on when the power is on. I just assumed it made a sound too!
If you don't mind answering, I'll leave some questions:
If you had to explain hearing to a deaf person who has never heard, how would you do it?
Can you explain what hearing is or what it feels like?
I can hear but I don't really know how I would go about explaining what it is to a person who can't hear.
Also, how does vision compare to hearing? How would you react to the thought of being [formerly] blind instead of deaf?
the noise that surprized me the most is the air
this narrator is so much better
This video is now making me question why things sound the way they sound now too- 💀👍
I’ve been able to hear my whole life. I’ve never had problems with my hearing but this video has good questions that I never thought about-
I had a lot of ear wax and my hearing was getting bad for a year then I went to the doctor and he rinsed my ears.
I still remember leaving the doctors ofice and hearing the wind it was so laud. Sirens and horns was to laud i almost broke down and I was scared.
I only had bad hearing for 1 year. Before that I had 16 years of Normal hearing so I was surprised how laud it was suddenly. I cant imagine how crazy it must be to live years of life without ever hearing and then suddenly be able to hear again.
15:23 congratulations, you just experienced autism. The heater in my office has been making a very quiet, VERY annoying noise for the last 7 hours. I don't get to turn my hearing off, so I listen to a lot of classical music
Fridges, ticking clocks, traffic, dogs, people chewing, those weirdos who hold conversations in bathrooms...
The world is very noisy when you are autistic.
It's so interesting to me that it seems like people can tune out all of the annoying backround noises. I don't know if I just don't really understand how it sounds to them, but I hear almost everything at any given time. I can't just tune it out. Then again, I'm autistic and have adhd. Maybe thats the auditory processing issue thing I didn't think I have...
the story about not being able to hear pitch is super interesting!!! i wonder what that would feel like. what pitch do they hear in normally? crazy interesting...
The background noise overwhelm happens to even us who've always heard. You'll find a lot of people with headphones/earbuds on while studying or out and about, do so less for the multitasking and more for the noise control.
Another "noise control" is the white noise - fans, ocean sounds, fireplaces, rain sounds, etc.
4:00 ((No ex-deaf story here but still somewhat related to hearing))
That reminded me when I went to go see the doctor about hearing loss. It was luckily earwax build up in my ears from wearing in-ear headphones. Got that removed and I could hear:
- My own clothes rubbing
- Wind blowing
- Snow crunching beneath my feet
I'm not deaf or hard of hearing, but I can relate to having the overwhelming feeling of being able to hear everything around you. I can sometimes hear the buzzing of electricity in the walls of the house or ambient background noise that others tune out, and it drives me nuts
Not deaf, but hearing impaired. I had my first hearing aids in 4th grade. I didn't know, when cooking with oil (and meat fat) it made a sound. I discovered it the night I got them. I was in awe over it! It made everything so loud it was overwhelming. But yeah, I didn't know cooking made noise.
That trees make sound. Like in the wind,
their leaves bumping around make them
sound like giant maracas. Tripped me out.
Damn story 4 makes me realize how much we take the little “normal” things for granted
That ending for story 13 hurt
Kinda unrelated: This reminded me of my friend who went blind at 8. At 19 he had surgery & could see. He did not know what anything was. He once took a apple closed his eyes felt it & went APPLE. He could not tell what it was by just seeing it. He had to go to theraphy for years.
He sometimes used to wear blackout glasses & walk around like he was still blind. He said seeing hurt his brain & it got tired. Hope he is doing good wherever he is
One sound I was glad to get rid of was the distorted sound of my own heartbeat. I couldn’t hear my own voice, so I either spoke too loudly or too quietly. But I could hear my heart. I described it as workmen, because it reminded me of one of the few sounds I could remember - workmen at the side of the road mixing cement. It was the sound of a metal spade going into concrete mix. It was a bit like shovelling fine gravel. When my surgery date came round, I was told I was going into hospital to have the workmen taken out of my ears. Sounded perfectly reasonable to me lol. The sound, once I could tune out background noise, went completely.
8:06
my heart dropped- that is so freaking sad 😭 how dare you 😭😭
My sister was born with degrading hearing and it got to the point where she needed hearing aids, eventually cochlear implants. I will always remember when she got her cochlears; she went through our silverware drawer and was shifting around the actually silverware, completely engrossed in the sounds they made. It was a funny sight at first but after a bit, it dawned on us that she hadn’t heard these noises in that high of quality before and it was very wholesome!
Also, not to be that guy, it’s pronounced “co-clear” - just had to point it out because my sister always corrected me when I said it wrong until it got ingrained into my head
My hearing was very acute when I was younger, now it's average to below average.
I can't hear mosquitos anymore, and I'll never not be thankful for that.
The noise your hair makes when it's being brushed.
The story of the person turning off their hearing aids when arguing with their mom reminded me of something a coworker said once. Her mom was deaf and once when she was a teen, she got into an argument with her mom simply turned around. Mom couldn't continue arguing cause she could see her mom signing.
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The sounds of nature (birds, leaves, the ocean) are so universally loved... I wonder if it's an evolutionary thing.
Probably a golden ratio thing,
I was hard of hearing as a child due to constantly being sick with colds stuffing my head full of mucus, badly enough I needed a hearing aid in school to hear the teacher. Now as an adult my hearing is mostly normal (a bit below normal in some frequency ranges) and even after 20+ years of being able to hear again, my ears still hurt from certain sounds. Traffic, this hissing sound the buses make when they slump down to get closer to the ground, and others. Also, either because of that history of being hard of hearing or because I'm autistic or both, I have an audio processing disorder that makes it difficult to process speech. Not impossible, just a struggle. Helps if I'm able to see someone's lips. I can't exactly lip read, not fully, but enough that it helps my brain figure out what's being said. If someone is faced away from me, though, it's just so much wah-wah-wah to me.
From what I was told I had to have surgery to put tubes in my ears at like 2 or 3 because I had so much fluid in my ears that in one ear I couldn't hear out of and the other ear was like hearing underwater. I was told that not like after draing with the tubes one fell out. I have a hard time focusing on sounds and people talking if there is a lot going on. I also have a hard time hearing things or people talking in certain situations. Sometimes I just can't hear a lot. I also have tenitus. It gets bad enough at times it actually hurts and caused a headache.