What I Can and Can't Hear
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- What I Can and Can't Hear
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Rikki Poynter talks about what she can and cannot hear as a deaf person. She goes over how deafness is a spectrum and isn't one size fits all. Some deaf people hear high tones better than deep tones and vice versa. Some sounds can go completely unnoticed. These are Rikki's personal experiences.
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I used to know a comedian with limited hearing. He told a joke about a woman commenting on his accent. He said to her "I'm partially deaf" and the woman said "Is that in Europe?"
LukeOfTroy that’s hilarious. I tell people I’m profoundly deaf and they answer with ‘what?’ Then I laugh and they feel offended lol. I’m like yo welcome to my life! Gotta laugh at it.
LukeOfTroy wow!!
How come you don't know the comedian anymore?? Did he get his hearing back?? lmao
I LUV COMEDIANS!
@@AspiringHeights oh fuck, that's my life every day
"Unfortunately yes I can still hear screaming babies" 😂
Me too.
That's the only child frequency that comes in nice lol
You need a screaming baby kitchen timer.
+Rikki Poynter Agreement
Her boyfriend would NOT like that!!!
@@tenma628 her boyfriend would dislike fire even more.
💀💀
Oof 100 desabels
Haha.. one of the reasons I married my husband is his deep voice. I can always hear him!
Kpop! Whoop! And I am a music therapist and I've worked with a few kids with different levels of hearing loss. I haven't worked with anyone with severe hearing loss, but I have noticed that some hear high pitches and some hear low. I usually have to test it out by letting them play either the bells or the drums and seeing which one they react to better.
ASL Anissa music therapist sounds super cool!!
ASL Anissa Whoo I'm going into music therapy at college next fall!!!
ASL Anissa I
I don't want you to feel like I'm trolling or making fun of you because I'm not, I actually really like your voice.
I agree, it's nice to me.
I AGREED BUT SORRY TO BOTHER YA
A moment of appreciation for the fact that you listen to Epik High 😂😂👏👏
I was hoping to see a comment on Epik High!! :) I love Kpop!! And love her Sailor Moon shirt!!!!
lizzieborden41 ARMY 4 life!!!!
I love BTS!! But I'm a Shawol for life!!!
lizzieborden41 Sure thing!! ;) ^-^
+Melili YES!
3:40 Honestly, I often struggle to understand lyrics and there is nothing wrong with my hearing. I'm always looking up lyric videos, because there are nearly always at least some lyrics I can't get, and often many. I will say there are songs out there with very clear lyrics, but they are very few and far between, especially in the realm of pop music. I think songs for young children often have the clearest lyrics, but they're not the kind of music I like to listen to very often. Lyric videos are definitely my friends, and once I know the lyrics I can extrapolate from that knowledge and know what they're singing.
Profoundly Deaf here, so like you said, "it's like (snaps fingers) done." :P
One interesting thing I've noticed when talking with people about this is that when someone is very dependent on hearing aids or CIs, they become less sensitive to vibrations. While people who are profoundly deaf and rarely/never use hearing aids or CIs (like me) are way more sensitive to vibrations. I've had a lot of moments where I've gone "What is that vibration??" and people look at me like I'm crazy!
Interesting to know.
Do you believe it's because when you are profoundly deaf you can't rely on your hearing so it turns out that you are more sensual than a person who can use some hearing?
+Spongebob SQpants (Spongebob Squarepants) Yeah I think it's like you completely lose one sense, the others improve in response. A lot of blind people have better sense of smell, hearing, etc. Of course it varies person to person but that's the general idea.
Rogan Shannon Cool to know. Thanks. :)
yes once I was in the shower, and I felt this vibration, I was like no was is that. I knew it was my brother but I thought he was jumping on the stairs. I hopped out of the shower look at the stairs he wasn't there. I asked y sister where 'my brother's name' he said he was on his drums. I was like ohhh wow.
Rogan Shannon oh damn.. Do deaf people have alien superpowers, can you hear shit?
I'm a 28 year old young woman who is disabled due to a rare connective tissue disorder. In the last few years that I've been completely disabled (i.e. bed bound), I've made quite a few friends who are deaf or blind, because I came to realise that they really are the most accepting and understanding people about my disability. I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and it can effect those who have it GREATLY from person to person. Some people with EDS can live a completely normal life for most, if not all, of their life....while others (like me) will start having minor problems in their childhood or teens and become completely disabled by the time they turn 20. So I've actually met people who have the exact same disease as me but because they are in their 30s and still able to work they think I'm "not that sick" or that I'm "faking it". Seriously, WHAT?! I don't get how someone with the same illness can judge another person just because their disease is progressing faster than yours. Where on the other hand, I've met and spoken with loads of blind and deaf friends who are just so amazing, so understanding and so helpful and supportive. You guys just get that everyone who is disabled is different and that no disease, illness or injury is cookie cutter for every person who has it. If you also understand this and don't judge, THANK YOU! You guys are like a breath of fresh air to those of us with really rare diseases that most people don't understand
I HATE when people accuse someone of faking an illness! It's not up to us to prove to someone we have a disability, /especially/ if doing something to show how we're different harms the individual! (for example, I saw a video on someone with EDS who gave in and started hyperflexing her joints to appease fans and said "I probably shouldn't do that....") And yes, people love to compare, but we are INDIVIDUALS and like everyone, disabled or not, our cases are unique!
I have EDS too!! And ironically, was accused of faking two days ago by someone else with EDS. It hurts like hell :(
I'm really sorry to hear this. I have found the same thing, people with hearing loss or vision loss always seem to understand better than anyone else. I am hard of hearing myself, I got 60% hearing loss on my left side. the right side is perfect, no hearing loss what so ever. I also have Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome in a very mild form which I am not going to go into a full detail cause we will be here forever. it does make it hard to study, I get an hour with the teacher to help me with assessments. I also get problems with my back and legs because of this, I have short tendons in my legs and problems with my lower back which mean I can't work for 8 hours like other people. I have done at 8-hour shift at work and bearly survived it so I said no more. I have found the most understanding person is one of my high school mates who is visually impaired. he has helped me through a lot.
Callie Parker I'm a 20 year old who had hyperparathyroidism at a young age (at least 10 when it started and 15 before I got the tumor removed ) that caused a lot of damage to my body, I have chronic kidney stones (my kidneys are covered in them), osteoarthritis, insomnia, chronic nausea, poor appetite, horrible pain, and depression, and people don't take me seriously because I look like any other 20 year old (well that's not true I'm much more handsome 😏) but on the inside most days I feel like I'm 50, really bad days I feel like I'm 80 and I'm completely bed ridden with a puke bucket, the only thing that reduces and controls this for me is cannabis but I moved back to my home state where it's illegal and I've completely reverted from all the progress I was making in a legal state (I actually had a job and a social life) I have no friends because I live in a very rural area and all the kids I was friends with growing up have moved, people give me crap when I don't do anything but they don't understand that I can't sometimes, like bending over to clean something up for example, I hate my illness, I hate it so much it's so painful and depressing, and people proceed to give me crap for being in pain literally all the time even people who know me. They say oh you but you look good, to which I respond well yeah of course I'm a good looking mother fucker but I don't feel good and I can't do this, I need them to help, it's not until I become a complete ass do I get help either, and that's just not something I like doing.
Callie Parker oh and the faking thing? Well because when I was a kid people thought I was faking that's why I'm in as bad as shape as I am now had it gotten treated sooner I might be a "normal" person, it wasn't until I literally almost died at 15 that doctors took things seriously with me and got to the bottom of it.
Amen to the volume thing, I have a 504 plan at school for captions and things yet teachers think they can turn it up super loud, no matter what it's still muffled
Same girl! It gets quite annoying sometimes
Sometimes I feel like, just IM FED UP WITH DIS CRAP.
Yes !!!! and it being so loud almost makes it worst. Just simply put the captions on!
I have an IEP and the teachers do the same and just make it so it super loud doesn't do anything and I'm only severely deaf in my left and moderate in my right. I HATE teachers sometimes
+Samantha Segol I feel your pain.
Great video! Thanks for explaining this in so much detail. I'm the secretary of my university's ASL club, and while I'm fairly comfortable using sign language, I still have a lot to learn about what Deaf people experience on a daily basis. This was really helpful and informative!
As a hearing person this was really interesting to watch, thanks for sharing ☺️
This is one of the few videos that I have used to help educate people who get mad at me when they can't understand why I have a much easier time with male voices than females or small children. It's sooo hard like I know there's something there but it just DOES NOT REGISTER! The bigger the male voice the better it is for me. People online automatically assume you're lying or you're just a jerk. So with how many times I've used this video amongst others to help put their ignorance to rest, I wanted to say thank you. I'm not brave enough to educate on my own I still struggle with that overwhelming high intensity anxiety that comes with feeling isolated.
This is why I personally think that ASL should be the language people are taught in school instead of the quickly forgot Spanish or French. Yes, Spanish is very common to hear in America but there are so many people who would benefit from ASL being taught in schools! D
Tamara Vegas I learn bsl in my school and I live in England.
That's awesome! In the US, or at least where I live, they only teach basics in Spanish or french. D
Eyes Watching yup, we learn French (or Spanish or whatever language the school teaches) and bsl (British sign language).
Tamara Vegas they should teach chinease in school. Then alot of people could talk to them
I wish they would teach it. Now, as an adult, I'm struggling to learn it on my own.
You give me so much inspiration. When I was 12 I had a virus that caused me to lose my hearing in my left ear. I lost 60% of hearing and the doctors said I'd get my hearing back over time but it never came back in fact I actually lost more hearing and I'm legally deaf now in my left ear. I'm now 18 and it does effect my learning and some of my speech and hearing you communicate perfectly is amazing.
I really admire you, for starting a channel and sticking with it (I wouldn't have the guts with no disability). You're charming, fun, smart and a great teacher.
i don't have any kind of hearing loss whatsoever, nor do i know anyone with any level of it either. However i love your videos because they're educational and you're hillarious and you make it interesting
I'm not technically deaf or hoh, but I tend to explain my Auditory Proccessing Disorder as being slightly hoh because most people dont understand APD and, in my experience, are less nosey if I just say I'm a little hoh. I find that lower tones are easier for me to recognize as a voice, but harder for me to understand, higher pitches are easier to hear overall but hardest to distinguish the source of or understand words in, and mid-range sounds are easiest for me to identify and understand
Thank you for making this video!! It's kind of cool (as a hearing person) having some sort of insight on what can be heard as a deaf person.
Well let's look at this positively,
You can sleep better
Have your own language
Not hear BS from other people
Rikki, thank you for sharing these stories with us! It's so interesting to see how things are from the HOH perspective! Take care!
I'm not hard of hearing or deaf or anything but even in a quiet classroom I have trouble understanding my classmates when they're next to me
I can hear them, but I can't make out what they're saying
Gina Sannino I have this problem too! I'm constantly saying "What WHAT"
Yes! APD person here also!
I have the same thing, sometimes I just go deaf for a few minutes. It is because I am overwhelmed sensory wise, at least I guess. And then I am ashamed to ask what was going on because nobody believes me even though it was proven by a doctor. Q_Q
Have you ever done a hearing test? because it could also be that you hear high frequencies not so well. High frequencies make up the sharpness, so for example the s,t,f,sh. volume perception comes from the lower frequencies. so there is a possibility that thats the reason why you have problems understanding them even if they're right next to you. (sorry if my english is not so well, i'm german)
I have had mild conductive permanent hearing loss since I was 5 im now 14 and I've just got hearing aids a few weeks ago. They have made my life so much better! I love that I can watch you and relate to you so much even tho you have so much more severe hearing loss! Love you x
A few years ago I took an online hearing test. It was part of a research program a graduate student was conducting. It tested each main frequency band that humans should be capable of hearing. As in, each band that a human has reported being able to hear, plus 2 or 3 bands into the areas where humans can't hear. Anywho, at the end, it printed out this pretty cool image that color coded the areas you could successfully hear or not hear. That sort of test might be kinda cool for deaf people, maybe? It could show hearing people which sorts of sounds their deaf friends can hear. Imagine being able to send people the readouts of your test, where each grid is hyperlinked to an audio file that will play that sort of sound. So you could say, this is what I can hear, and the other person could click around it. That'd be cool. Unfortunately, that main research project I'm referring to is long over, and whichever student put it together presumably now has their Phd. Someone else could make it, though!
I'd imagine so. The difference here being the ease at which you can distribute what each frequency actually is/sounds like. I thought it was a pretty cool project when it was up and running, something like 256/256 square grid, with each color coded to how well you passed the test. If I remember correctly, purple=fail and red = pass. If you click a square, it replays the sound. The elegance and beauty of how it was all integrated is what struck me, and I imagine passing around test results would be both trivial and enlightening for hearing people.
Ok so I found out about your channel from Life Noggin (I do watch them)through a recent episode from PhillyD.. and I’m just going to say I’m glad this channel exists, I never knew that such a channel existed and it brings me relief that someone is educating people about deaf individuals. I myself have died just after being born was brought back and lost my hearing in my right ear completely (well for some reason I can hear ultra high pitched tones and the buzzing sound electricity makes). I have full hearing in my left ear thankfully. Anyways I totally get what you mean about tones, pitches, and volumes. Depending on background noise I have to adjust the volume for things very often. I won’t lie I hate asking people what they said over and over sometimes. And it definitely gets annoying hearing that I’m too loud sometimes or too quiet sometimes. It’s hard explaining all of these things to people at times because most either don’t understand or don’t try to understand. You’ve reached thousands of people, I’m in awe. Thank you for everything you’ve taught people because that’s one less person who lacks the understanding of people who are deaf or hard of hearing!👏🏽😍😁
I am partially deaf. I hear better out of my right ear. For me, I hear highr pitches better than lower. I have a really hard time understanding what people say if they are not facing me. If they have an accent, it makes it even harder. Definitely rely on lip reading a lot.
Do you have ringing in your ears?
CubetheEMT the ringing is called tinnitus which I believe and my ent cochlear surgeon agrees is a sign you have lost hearing. Tends to get worse the more you cochlear hairs you loose.
O my I have to sometimes ask if anyone else is hearing the high pitched ringing that is driving me nuts or is it just me. With my hearing loss the doctor told me my brain is trying to fill in the sounds I can't hear. So I cant sleep without the tv on or music my ears ring like crazy when it is super quite. They also ring bad when it is to loud like at the county fair are a concert.
I'm glad you're finding happiness and community and usefulnes in the ASL lifestyle. It's inspiring to know a hardworking adult that's willing to switch from oral to ASL! It's so hard to change primary languages as an adult.
Just stumbled across this channel, I love it!
Same
My parents are deaf and I've tried to find a youtuber that's dead but I'm so bad at looking for deaf youtubers haha, I really like you and I'm gonna subscribe
I know you said you don't listen to music much anymore but if I may suggest a jrock group, I think you should listen to One Ok Rock. Deeper Deeper might be a good more bass heavy song for you to enjoy.
+Rikki Poynter Yeah they're a really great band. If I'm not listening to game ost music then it's usually One OK Rock lol
Rammstein. She'll be able to hear it! I'm sure! :D I love them!
Hello Rikki, so glad i found your videos. Im nearly deaf in the left ear, and about 20% in the right, i have tinnitus, hyperacusis all from a simple cold,that led to a chest infection ( which was about 4 yrs ago).!!!,,, Such a simple thing has changed my life. The bonus side of things is that i am now trying to change my life to help others who have tinnitus and hearing probs. Just want to say thanks for your videos and,, wow,, i love your eye shadow make up,,, very creative, especially the " audism and hearing people at airports " video. Cheers from england.
That was extremely interesting. Thank you.
I didn’t realize until I started going through your video archive that my auditory processing disorder is exhausting without subtitles. I seem only be able to listen to podcasts with super high quality mikes, no lawn mowers and nobody is watching tv or talking. Just thank you. I’m probably not your intended audience but it felt very validating that I’m not being lazy and getting tired over nothing.
i'm HOH and i have bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, along with tinnitus, i can't hear low pitches, or anything low like mens voices, i can hear high pitch frequencies, my left ear is worse than my right, and i wear hearing aids, and my luck recently my left hearing aid died, like literally, last month, soooo i mainly rely on lip reading, and like you have said, it's not always an exact science, as for volumes, well my tv has to be at 50, and that's with the tv at one end of my med. sized bedroom, and me at the opposite wall, and my car speakers are just about shot, they buzz all the time, and i'm learning ASL, and i'm lucky a friend of mine took ASL in college, so yay. :)
I have bilateral sensorinueral hearing loss as well and wear hearing aids. I agree that lip reading can be tough to do at times. Do you use closed captioning on your tv?
oh yes, all the time, only thing is i have an old Roku for Netflix and it doesn't have CC's, my friend has one of the newer Roku's which does, so i plan on getting a newer one for sure, because ya without the CC it's hard to watch stuff, even when the volume is on 60, especially if what i'm watching takes place in a dark place, it still isn't that helpful. :)
i find when watching tv lipreading is impossable bc they never face the camra
This is pretty much my same situation! Bilateral hearing loss, bad tinnitus, can't hear low pitches, have a problem hearing men with low voices, I'm fine with high pitch frequencies, my left ear is worse than my right, I have hearing aids (but typically go without them. I've had a bad time adjusting to wearing them). But I can't lip read for shit. I just need people facing me.
I have bilateral moderate hearing loss- worse in my left ear (moderate- severe), but I've worn hearing aids since I was about 5 or 6, so I've had time to get used to them, I would be hopeless without them now, with them I can hear like 80% of things. When I was at school, if the batteries ran out and I didn't have any, I just used to go home because I had no idea what was happening. I think it's a bit sad that no ones really helped me to cope without hearing aids and that I rely on them so much. I don't wear them to bed so sometimes when I wake up in the morning and speak to my family without them in, they go and tell me to put them in because they get fustrated that I can't hear them as well as usual. :/
I dont know you, i just stumbled upon your channel. But let me tell you that you are an inspiration. Thank you, i dont know you, but i can imagine that things are not easy and thank you for being strong.
And now I’m subbed.
she is so cute. i love her voice
You are hilarious. You have an amazing attitude, not just to your deafness, but to life in general!
I'm HoH and I have hearing aids so I'm in theory a hearing person but if I don't wear my hearing aids I can't hear low pitches and high pitches, above 8,000 Hertz I hear nothing. my dad and my oldest brother (I have three brothers) has this voice I can't hear without or sometimes even with my hearing aids. I have basically the same thing as you with lyrics. only if I search it up I know what's basically has been sang/rapped in the song. maybe it's also because English isn't my native language but sometimes if they sing clear enough I can hear the lyrics like the chorus and stuff, if we are talking about volume I'm fine with 8 or something the volume won't get higher than 15 bc of the bass. with the TV it is different. without hearing aids I nowhere can hear what's being said on the TV, it's all low pitches unless you have it on 20 but that's really loud and I am the the only one in my family who's HoH so when I showered or something I never wear my hearing aids so if I am watching the news around 8pm CEST I need captions but there's my dad who is a captionphobic (he hates captions) so it is kinda a struggle here. and I never hear my alarm too. I basically hear for my feeling everything with right since my right ear is better than my left ear
this was really interesting! when my granddad started to lose his hearing, he could hear deeper voices a lot better than higher voices. like he struggled to hear my grandmom even when she was yelling, but he could still understand my dad even at a whisper.
Okay this video was great but I just have to say that I love your shirt! 💗💗💗
I had a tumour on my facial nerves and had to have an operation through my ear and my right ear has started to deteriorate to hearing deep tones so discovering your channel is really cool for me so thanks :)
Hi, I really do appreciate your video experience, good to know how u live. I'd to know if is possible to get deaf at 18-20 years or in young ages? 'Cause some people say the loud music make you deaf if u usually do it.
How much truth is it?
Greetings, from Argentina, I really like ur video.
Rikki Poynter And what about the loud music?
@@elperroreggae u can look up. What happens above 80 decibels and listening to long to too loud stuff
My name is "Riki" too! My real name is Richelle but I was calked Riki since I was a baby. My aunt was deaf and I learned how to communicate with her. I really enjoy your videos.
Can you hear your own voice when you are talking or yourself breathing or chewing? That's what I expected from this video.
I can only hear myself breathe if it's completely silent (to me) and I focus on it, and breathe deeeeeeply.
According to the audiologist what I do hear probably doesn't sound the same as it does to you. There might be two or three tones in a 'sound' I might hear one of those.
When playing hide and seek as a kid I definitely did not realize other people can hear me breathing. 😂
I can't hear a normal breath. I can only hear other people breathe if I have my good ear on their chest or theyre panting to death in my arms.
I can hear my own voice just fine.
I've never heard someone else's stomach grumble. Rarely hear a fart.
This is an under discussed topic.
I will never, ever, in my life, be able to guarantee or know if my fart was silent, a whistler or who might have heard it. 😂 It's quite stressful. 😂Also other people have told me my stomachs growling but I couldn't hear because it was noisy.
That freaks me out man. Looked at them in terror like they've got xray vision and laser eyes. Then I realize just how deaf I am if I forgot.
I find this relatable as someone who has mild hearing loss. Fortunately, my hearing loss hasn't affected my life very much. But in my experience, there's ceratin ranges of frequencies that I cannot hear that most hearing people can and for me a large part is distinguishing sounds when there is background noise or while multiple people are talking. I used to need hearing aids and I used to have an FM system in elementary school. I'm now in grade twelve and although I have access to hearing aids if I need them I've been fairlu good with sitting closely to my teachers. I just wanted to say that finding your channel is very comforting for me because I'm in a range of hearing loss where it's not recognizable to people in most casual situations. But, there are times where I get scared because I have to ask someone to repeat something several times or I have to ask them to move to some place quiet.
I am deaf blind Autistic. How that affects me is that, I can both hear and see some. So I understand how complicated this really is. I can hear high pitch things. But, I can't always process them. Words make no freaking sense, unless they are in pictures or written. I use a flash bell so I know when someone is at the door. I also tell them to Text me ahead
BEAUTIFUL UNICORN I feel that, like I can hear noise most of the time, but I can't always understand or process what you just said
THANK YOU for posting this! You explained this better than I could. My hearing loss is due to Meniere's, and of course the fluids cause the hearing to fluctuate. Next time someone asks me questions about what I can and can't hear, I'm sending them the link to this video!
My left ear is fully deaf, only thing I can hear is "dog" and police and emergency car. My right ear have mild to servere hearing loss. without hearing aids I cant her high frekvension at all, as birds alarm lock, wind, rain...
My left side is deaf and right side is hald deaf.....great at all, I love it. Expecially when I go to bed, then I sleep on my better side and dont hear anything. Lol
my IG is @hearwithme if u would like to talk
I have had moderate hearing loss in both ears all my life and I actually didn't know that it could also range from deeper pitches to higher pitches. I can't hear the doorbell in my house either but thankfully I have family around to open the door when i can't hear it. This video was really helpful, thank you!
I'm curious, you say depending on the tone you can hear someone's voice can accents effect you hearing someone?
Thanks for the reply, keep up the content! :)
Rikki Poynter what helps is lip reading . I've literally became a master at it because of my hearing loss being practically deaf
Accents throw me off. I will try to lip read, but I usually cannot understand. Though, there is an accent, I'm not sure which, but for some reason I can hear and understand it crystal clear even without hearing aids. I have only heard this accent maybe three times so I cannot remember which country it originates from.
Born profoundly deaf here! You bring up a good point about tones. Back when I still used my Cochlear Implants (I don't anymore) I enjoyed and understood the deeper tones better than the higher pitches. Higher pitches really got on my nerves and I didn't enjoy music with female singers at all. But give me some good bass any day and I will love it. But yeah, even with cochlear implants, understanding what people were saying was just a crapshoot in the dark.
Once you said Epik High I feLL IN LOVE GIRL EPIK HIGH IS MY BABES. I did not expect to hear you like k-hiphop
Thank you! Deaf is not just about volume! As a person with a hearing that is moderate hearing loss it's annoying when people just think is volume and it not and so hard to explain.
Can I ask why you don't sign while you speak instead of having subtitles? I Think both would be great..but for deaf people it is often easier to watch sign then to have to read subtitles. Esp for the deaf of HH who dont read english as well as others do since as you know Asl and english are completely different launguages. Just curious. Itd be nice to see you sign.
I gotcha. Ive seen people sign and speak at the same time and i know from experience it is very difficult. But i think itd be cool if you signed and then had subtitles for the hearing to read. But i totally understand. Im an interpreter for the deaf and im fluent in asl but not perfect. And if theres a topic im not fully comfortable signing i will research it ahead of time. But thats for my work. So I totally get why you do it how you do. You have incredible speech as well btw!
Yes. As a sign student, having to sign and speak english at the same time feels like rubbing your belly and petting your head.
Yea i totally get that. I'm an interpreter for the desf so i understand. I was just wondering why she didnt sign and have subtitles for the hearing to read. Or when i said sign and speak together i meant sign and then do a voiceover. Not signing and speaking simultaneously. I know how difficult it is and asl and english are two totally diff languages.
Oh my gosh I absolutely love Epik High! When you said that you like them I was so excited. Literally all of their songs are amazing
"what I can and can't hear"
more like "I don't know what things I can't hear.... because I can't hear them"
not necessarily. she can compare with others
I am losing my hearing. The lower registers are going first. The doctors don't know what causing it, but the neighbors are complaining because I have the bass on my stereo cranked way up. Doctors think I'll be profoundly deaf in a year or two so I signed up for ASL classes at the community college just in case. Thank you for providing information about D/deaf and hard of hearing information. It has helped me through this process.
I have a question, in one of your videos about CC you mentioned having them could earn you audience from the deaf and hard hearing community but how can you find videos that have CC? is it added in the tags of the video or what should I do so it can be found?
+Rikki Poynter so I write so I write "title" [CC]
like that? would it do the same in tags?
+Rikki Poynter thank you sweetie, I'll be watching this, Ib have a video to upload today so hopefully I can add CC to it. I'm actually partially blind but hopefully I can get this done😊
If you search for a video on youtube's search it will have a [CC] label right to the right of the timestamp. It's one of those things that you don't even notice is there until you search for it.
+Robert McEwen ok :)
Rikki Poynter I live in N.C
you're so inspiring! in a few minutes i instantly click the like button, then.... you said epic high, SUBSCRIBED!!!!
I can hear extremely well. That's really annoying. If my windows are closed (2. floor) i can hear people WALK in front of my house. Was once sleeping by a friend. He has a cat but I found out he had a mouse in the house because i
heard it walking while the cat haven't heard it (or at least didn't
make any movement). I wear headphone that are soundproofed when ever i can. The world is just to loud ^^
Would be great if i could give you a little of my hearing, so you could hear better and i could sleep better :D
Yeah yeah
+arizaliit you heard the mouse walking but the cat didn’t. My ass
This is so interesting I love learning about people who are not like me so I can understand different kinds of people I can hear perfectly can see perfectly . But I love this channel because it teaches me stuff that I don't or wouldn't have known
I'm completely hearing, I have no hearing loss whatsoever.
BUT if someone is not looking at me when they talk then I cannot hear a damn thing they are saying. My ex used to get so annoyed with me (and I with him) cos we'd be walking and he'd turn his head away and say something or he'd be walking slightly in front of me and say something. I had to constantly ask him to turn around and repeat what he'd said.
It's the same with the children I work with. If something's going wrong kids will often look at the thing while trying to explain it and it's so frustrating trying to get them to look at me while talking.
have you had your hearing tested recently?
I mean not recently but I'm talking about having this problem since FOREVER.
Like since I last had my ears tested. It's always been this way, not something new.
This could be CAPD (central audio processing disorder) which can make it impossible to hear things when ppl turn away or w/e
Could be Auditory Processing Disorder which I have. Background noise, groups of people, people turning away from me all can learn to issues processing speech. It is the brain rather than the ears that are faulty so ive been told. I have perfect hearing in a room with zero background noise and where I'm only having to listen to the beeps they do during hearing tests
I have something similar I tend to "loose" my hearing ability from time to time especially if I am not focused on the person talking. Got them tested and it turns out that my brain has a hard time processing noise, also I am in general really fast overwhelmed no matter the sense, hearing is just the most extreme one.
It's always reassuring to hear other people's hearing loss stories.
I heard that women are genetically able to hear a crying baby no matter what. lol Also, have you seen the movie Hush? It's a horror film about a deaf woman alone in a cabin! lol It's pretty great.
Rikki Poynter Wow! I'm sorry! I hope I didn't come across insensitive. I guess since I am not deaf or disabled in general it was a whole different experience. Would you mind explaining what about it was unenjoyable? Was it unrealistic? I'm very curious.
Rikki Poynter Yikes! I don't see why they couldn't hire a deaf actress. Well, that's terribly unfortunate. Isn't the deaf girl on Switched at Birth a pretty talented actress? (I say hoping she really is deaf)
Daphne? she's not deaf.
Elianna Leon That's who I was thinking of, but while I researched I found out that Marlee Matlin ,who is also in that show, is actually deaf! :D She also won some awards! Sorry, I'm just trying to relate in a weird way because that's just how I am... lol I am worried I'm embaressing myself...
Rikki Poynter Well, morale of the story is, I don't know any disabled actors, and that's an issue.
I had a couple of friends in the Marines who got back from Afghanistan a while ago, both with hearing loss to some extent one with very severe loss in one ear and tinnitus due to the noise from aircrafts and artillery. When he got back people were constantly asking them "how can you hear this but not that?" and that sort of stuff and find it hard to believe when I tell them it's not just volume but their audible frequency range that was affected, he's finally getting hearing aids this month though, hopefully that'll help, someone told me about 1/5 of the hearing aids that are bought in America are purchased by VA and that hearing loss is often overlooked, focusing the more serious injuries the military deals with. Just thought I'd share, great video btw, keep em coming!
you should listen to death grips
LOL
Eduardo Ferreira GUILLOTINE
Eduardo Ferreira YES
When Wikipedia says 'experimental' you know they're bad.
saarxddd or maybe you just have shitty taste in music why dont you go listen to your generic pop artist that sings about how he loves generic female traits
Who's here from Life Nogin ?
Axionnes Mapping aaayeee
Same I was intrested...
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My 5 year old sister is half deaf but can still hear as a normal person with hearing aids on. But when she's not using them she can't hear birds, cars airplanes and more. You're so cool and I love your channel.
can you hear yourself talk and sing?
I need to share this with my hearing friends, you explain it so so well.
I am profoundly deaf and your right about music and having to turn it up. my main music would be Queen because Freddie MERCURY has a good clear high voice and helps. good video and thanks for making people more aware x
Girl! I'm hard of hearing! some days my hearing goes completely out some days it's just one or the other, you're honestly my inspiration and I wish you lived closer so we could become friends LOL but it's so nice to have a RUclipsr that understands. My boyfriend is learning ASL also!
I am not deaf or heard of hearing but I love the deaf community and study ASL in school. My ASL was completely deaf and it was such a privilege to learn from someone who was actually deaf.
One time, our teacher got mad at the class because some kids were talking during a quiz. She said it's like a slap in the face because we know she can't hear. Has this ever happened to you where someone's taken advantage of the fact you cant hear them?
Rikki, Oh my goodness, I have found your through an RUclips channel, that led me to another, that led me to you! So far I have watched 3 of your video and your have blown me away! 1st Yes, My cat tells me when some one is at the door! I have not ever met someone with about the same range of hearing as mine, nor someone raised in main stream public schools. In another video you mentioned teachers teasing you, yup. So many questions I wish to ask? Does your family forget you can't hear? Does your family ever turn their faces down and away from you, so you can't hear them? Because of the tiny bit of hearing you do have - does the deaf community most often shut you out? ( When I lived in Florida wasn't a problem now in Illinois it is ( I didn't learn ASL till my college years, not very good with it now, don't use it - you lose it) The nod and yes (from another video ) yes, I play that game all the time. Thats all I can think of at this min ,I am sure theres alot more to ask. Oh how I wish I could just sit and chat with to you compare notes. Thank you for making videos!!!!
I have a deaf collegue and most of the time it's not too noticable, but one day I met him on the underground and he was extremely frustrated because his hearing aid had stopped working. he kept talking to me, but it was not the time for me to type stuff out on my phone cause he was busy trying to fix his hearing aid. man I felt sorry for him that week.
when I met him again as we finished off work and walked to the underground together I used my phone to communicate with him and he nearly cried because no one had made the effort to do that all day.
also, I was super impressed with his ability to regulate his volume while not hearing shit. I'm so bad at that and often get comments on being too loud..
another time on the underground the firealarm went off. that was one sucky firealarm. like it was literally someone speaking over the speakers telling what was going on, but I had to stop and listen intently to figure out what they were saying and he had no chance.
I'm very impressed with disabled peoples ability to not be constantly pissed off over lack of accessibility.
Thank you for sharing your story. Thankfully I have not experienced any hearing loss in my life, however, I love your channel and i love learning about this. I'm studying to be a teacher and I believe that learning about this is very important... im actually shocked that at my university, they have yet to mention anything about youth who suffer from deaf or blindness. (They have only mentioned learning disabilities, so far..). Haha, I'll stop typing now before this comment gets too long...you are a brilliant person, keep doing what you do!!
i just decided to take up a minor in deaf studies at my school. just finished my final exams the other day :) so glad i found your channel you seem cool as frick subscribed lol
I'm not HOH or deaf. but I did look at some articles geared toward the deaf community when searching for an alarm clock. I sleep through EVERYTHING. high pitched alarm sounds are the easiest to sleep through and bother my family the most.
I have just now found your videos and I am loving them ! I totally feel you on the frequency level. I have had severe ear infections my whole life since I was six months old and because of them my ear drums have ruptured multiple multiple Times and I am now in my mid 20's and I am losing my hearing. There are days where I can hear pretty much everything...but there are becoming more and more days where I cannot not hear many pitches and frequencies in the mid tone range....I'll have many friends be talking to me and if my back is turned to them or they are turned from me I cannot hear them talking to me. I drive people crazy cause I have to have the CC on to understand a lot of movies and shows. I also focus on people's mouths when they talk just so I can hear and understand what they say. It has taken years for my mother to understand that I am not ignoring her but actually have trouble hearing....but on the other hand there are days when I hear almost perfectly ...
it is extremely frustrating....so I definitely understand what you say in your videos!!! Love it!!
Wow Rikki! First of all I just wanna say hi..👋🏾 and it's great that you like Epik High which I think is great that someone who like myself likes and does listen to some K-pop.
I have a severe hearing loss in both ears that is totally affecting my whole social and daily life activities... It is very depressing at times to just live and to try to have a normal life. The sounds that we don't hear and the clarity of speech is totally embarrassing at times. It makes it really hard to be around other people or to go out.. I just avoid the whole situation and get really tired of being in all the time..
However I have found that watching your videos have given me life because I guess I really am not the only person out here like this and you and others can relate to my daily struggle..
Your videos help me to smile and laugh since we both go thru the same hard of hearing problems...
I will always keep watching be subscribed to you.... Thank you for helping me cope yours truly Bill in Ohio.
It's so amazing to get to see someone who I can relate to! I'm hard of hearing, I wear hearing aids, but even with them it's just enough for me to be aware that someone is speaking to me. If they are turned up all the way I am able to make out what people are saying as long as they are facing me and I am able to combine it with lip reading. I do the same thing in my car and with my tv though, my roommates always have to remind me what an appropriate volume is during certain hours of the day. I've been known to accidentally make ridiculous amounts of noise early in the morning/late at night because I'm not aware of just how loud I really am being haha. I've done the same thing with my alarms all the time. I have a flashing light timer and I use the daylight to wake me up since I have three larger windows in my room. I can't hear lower pitches, and some high pitches go undetected by my right ear. I am constantly blowing out the speakers on my head phones though, I've never had a pair last me more than two months tops. I'm so tired of people just saying never mind though whenever I try to speak to them! I've had people say I look ridiculous when I'm signing to them as well...it's so difficult sometimes. Luckily I have an understanding roommate as well as people like you who are able to openly voice their opinions and such through their vlogs. It's nice finally not having to feel so alone (even though we've never actually met haha).
Thank you for sharing these videos. New subscribers here. My daughter and I love them.
Well, you’d probably be able to hear me pretty well! I have a deeper voice for a woman lol. But anyway, I find it so amazing to hear you talk so openly about this! I am socially awkward at times (meaning I would never have the courage to ask you these questions) so I appreciate your willingness to talk about this. Truly, I love learning and being aware because I want to understand! You seem to be so positive and I know it can’t be easy. But just hearing you talk about how you’ve learned to handle everything is just so encouraging to many. Keep doing what you do!
I just stumbled across your channel and I really enjoy your content. I’m not deaf or hard of hearing however I did do an experiment with my family. I had an app on my phone that would travel through various pitches to determine what we could all hear. I tested myself, my parents and my grandparents. To my surprise some of the pitches were bordering on painful for me yet my grandparents couldn’t hear them at all.
Neither of my grandparents have a hearing aid but considering how poorly my Gran did on my test we might need to think about getting her one soon.
pause at 2:41. oh my god! life comes around in full circle. i started watching a video in my "watch later" list with kandi jonson and molly burke, then i saw your collab with molly and came here. and to hear you say you listen to Epik High.. i'm an avid korean music listener. i came so far from all the korea-related videos i usually watch to end up back when a deaf girl says she listens to them. if that's not a sign, i don't kno what is.
anyways, bless your heart for having to put up with some of us, hearing people.
I am deaf in the left ear and hoh in the right ear. I have what they call islands of hearing. I get what you are saying about people with the frequencies. I hear women better than I do men. Some men have that right pitch and some...well yeah. Forget it. I cannot hear tornado sirens in my house, yet I can hear a train horn a mile away. I could literally go on and on but I think I will call it a night for now. Keep up the great work!
I just got hearing aids today. And one of my ear is more hitchpitched sounds I can hear. My other ear is thr opposite. But they are almost the same. But today, I heard friends and families voices.. and traffic and paper crinkling. So happy
This isn’t rude, just a question, how is it legal for her to drive? Isn’t it a danger to people if someone can’t hear car horns or oncoming cars, that’s why it’s illegal to wear headphones?
No, statistically, deaf people are better drivers. Hearing people are still wearing earphones, AirPods, calling people on the phone. Hearing people blast their radios/music all the way up which makes it difficult for them to hear. You only need eyes for the road. You should be checking all three mirrors regularly. Every second, I'm checking. That's how I know when emergency vehicles and other cars are coming.
I've never been in an accident I caused. Never. All accidents I've been in, especially the one that totaled my car, were caused by hearing drivers. Only the hearing people I know have caused car accidents, not the deaf ones.
It's legal because lawmakers understand this.
I have other videos on this matter if you'd like to browse and take a look.
Rikki Poynter okay thank you for the clarification! I’ll definitely check out your other videos.
I am the mother of a deaf/Hh daughter. Similar to what you described. Thank you !!!!
Life noggin sent me here. Nice video. Good to have some more insight into deafness :)
I’ve been loosing my hearing in my left ear, it’s slowly getting worse. I’m better with deeper tones... but even when the hubby speaks I’m constantly having to turn my head or keep sayin “what?!”
It’s frustrating. Can’t imagine not hearing at all. Love your vids, your very brave and I’ll keep on watching 👍😊
I’m not def but I have a long time pen pal and online friend Abby who is. I love learning about it and supporting the def community so I am so subscribing :)
@Rikki Poynter I lost my vision many years ago, due to a major hydrocephalic shunt malfunction. I can relate to a lot of what you are saying, about your hearing fluctuating. I have good and bad days, as well, because I do not walk correctly, due to an entirely different shunt malfunction. I hearing is impeccable, though. Since I lost a lot of my vision, as I did regain some of it once the shunt was replaced, I have to depend on my ears a lot. I can see a lot of things, to one degree or another. I still have blind spots, though, since the optic nerve damage is irreparable.
As a hearing person it was quite interesting to hear you talk about pitch because I actually have a thing where people with very deep voices (usually deep voiced men) actually hurt my ears when they talk loudly. It feels like my eardrums just can't take it for a second and they just send a wave of pain through my inner ear
I found your channel really interesting. I've been having whistles in my ears (I think is called tinitus), specially my left ear and i've been worried about possibly suffering some kind of hearing loss. This summer has being specially bad (I almost couldn't hear a thing with my left ear because of the whistles), but after coming back from vacation everything has come back to what it used to be (just whistles on my left ear but not too loud or specially annoying). I'm really glad I found your channel, and after just seeing a couple of videos just wanted to tell you that I love your content!
I just came across one of your videos yesterday and couldn't stop watching. I'm not the type of person who subscribes immediately but the moment KPOP was mentioned the subscribe button was hit xD
This was pretty cool! I've been hard of hearing all my life. I used to be able to hear higher pitched tones better, like kitchen timers, birds and whistling. Now I've had a general loss since I've grown older, but it's also become more difficult to hear the higher tones. I'm considered severely hard of hearing but my parents never thought to have me learn Sign Language unfortunately.
As a hearing person, I didn't know there was a vibrating bed alarm clock. I sleep through my alarms so much lol! I hope I can find one of these for myself! Thank you!!!!!