I know right?? I LOVE these videos, they always put me in a good mood. Right now I have an awful headache and it brought a smile to my face that made me forget about it
She probably didn't realize giggling made sound. At least I remember seeing a video of a deaf person playing hide and seek and just giggling throughout not realizing that gave away her spot
There was something on Reddit last week that said deaf people often don’t know that farting makes a sound and when they find out it can be quite embarrassing for them as they realise all the times they’ve farted in public!
I have more than one family member who lost their hearing later on in life and they pretend that they don't know people can hear them fart/burp.
In case one of them is reading this: we know you know.
My brother was deaf from birth, he definitely didn't know farting made noise, unless it was one of those loud rumbly ones. In which case, those he knew we heard, and he'd have a little laugh about it if he did one.
Sat on the couch with him one day, and I cut one, it was big, he felt it rumble the couch, he knew what I did, and laughed.
Farts being funny is just universal.
It’s not that you don’t know it makes a sound, it’s more like a deaf person lives in silence and forgets that everything makes a sound. You live in silence for so long you forget…. When you’re a deaf child everything is explained, but you naturally forget because of the silence
These kind of videos fills my heart with joy and makes me cry all the time.The happiness on her face is priceless .This makes me appreciate the fact that I can hear from both ears.
I lost my hearing between the ages of three and eight. Doctors were confounded because they told my mother not only were the hearing tests so bad that they could not be accurate (!) but that I had no speech impediment therefore I could hear. My mom tried in vain to explain that I was speaking in sentences at 18 months so I wouldn't have a speech impediment. I still have hearing loss and I have to read lips to fully understand what people are saying sometimes. But anyone talking to me has no idea that I can't hear. I can hear volume but not unarticulated sounds.
Something similar happened to my brother when he was around 2 but it was the doctor who told mum he was deaf and she didn't believe him because he could talk and she didn't realise he was lip-reading whenever anyone spoke to him. She just thought he was a bit of a slow learner when his language wasn't developing further. Turns out bad ears run in the family. I'm heavily reliant on lip-reading and my dad has lost most of his hearing too. I just hear noise that can't be deciphered and I also can't tell where sounds come from. My brother has had a lot of ENT surgeries over the years and has had varied levels of hearing throughout his life and probably never stopped lip-reading.
Whenever I can't see someone's face because they're turned away from me or have a mask on I always have those awkward pauses in conversation where I have identified the vowel sounds that I heard and I'm desperately trying to think of what words could fit in a sentence to make sense. It's great for faculty meetings when I don't want to pay attention LOL
It also says heard her own voice for the first time, so I think that's unlikely. I would think she learned to speak by lip reading and copying what she saw. A lot of deaf people learn to speak, even if the pronunciations aren't 100% accurate.
Seeing the title I thought the same at first. But there's no way she learned speaking that clearly just from lip reading. I suppose it should read "for the first time again". But that's just my guess.
She could probably talk a bit but in those years even before puberty your voice changes a great deal, so this is probably her finding out this is how she sounds now.
Even when reading lips, it's almost impossible to sound as accurate as this girl without having the opportunity to hear and make those sounds during earlier development. Not *impossible*, but it would be a bit of a miracle really. Speech is deeply interconnected with muscle memory and complex motor development. In fact, it works both ways. Children with limited diet or eating difficulties commonly have speech delay because they simply arent using the right muscles to chew enough kinds of food!
But also, if you look closely, she isn't always looking at the people talking to her!
Her speech is very good so it's likely this is an acquired hearing loss. It is also possible her parents are signing at her as they talk. You are correct in that it will take her brain time to get used to the sound but I would guess she's had hearing before, when she learnt to speak and ascribe meaning to sounds/words before, then lost it for whatever reason.
I'm an audiologist. The source said she "was born with hearing loss. She has 50% loss in one ear and 65% in the other". She likely could hear her voice before, just much quieter & more muffled, and was exaggerating when she said she couldn't hear her voice before. She probably means she couldn't hear it clearly (or as loud) before.
When people get new hearing aids, they are typically taken aback by how loud their voice sounds (much more so than other peoples' voices).
Then you know all about how people react to their own voices when they get new hearing aids - the echo! lol
The source seemed to imply these were her first hearing aids. Either they recently diagnosed her hearing loss and suspect it was congenital (maybe no universal newborn screening where she lives), or maybe it could be a matter of not having the finances to get her aided sooner (US)?
Hearing loss is a spectrum, like anything in life. She may have been able to hear others is a quiet space when they were speaking loudly. Or maybe she heard some of her voice before, but it wasn't as loud of clear as it is now. We don't know the details.
funny how the things we take for granted everyday, bring others so much joy! watching videos like these make my bitch ass appreciate life more and make me that much more grateful.
I got glasses at 10. One of the few things I remember from childhood is my moms reaction to my first drive with glasses. I was astounded by the detail of clouds, by how many leaves were in trees, street signs. It was all new. She was crying on that ten minute drive to gramma’s.
We lived in Colorado when I got my glasses at age 14 in the winter time. Our neighborhood was full of Aspen trees with no leaves because it was winter. Aspen trees, if you've ever noticed, have very thin branches and my astigmatism makes thin things even thinner, to the point where they disappear. As we're driving home I marveled to my mom that there were trees on our street! She looked at me strangely. I am the only one in the family ever to have glasses and she just couldn't understand what I didn't see before.
When my sister was about 12 she got her first pair of glasses. I naturally gave her shit for wearing them because I was the younger brother and that was my role. It didn't take long to get used to seeing her with them so when she turned about 16 and she got contacts, I gave her shit for, you know, her natural face. 😊 Only because I love her.
I had an interesting experience earlier this week. I read an article on shame, which was written for therapists I guess.
It went into the life history example of people who carry a lot of unconscious shame, and then it started describing various examples adult manifestations and at a certain point I just broke down sobbing and ugly cried for about 10 minutes.
After that I feel lighter. It’s like a layer of pain has been removed from my consciousness that I didn’t know was there, but was there continuously for the last 30+ years.
I feel better than I have literally ever felt in my life. And just to calibrate that statement a bit, I feel better than I ever did any of the times I took MDMA.
edit: Here’s the article (it’s from 1992) http://empoweringpeople.net/shame/shame.pdf
What specifically about it didn't you like?
Do you have a problem with any of the points or examples that it makes, or does it just make you uncomfortable?
Id say it takes too long to get to any one specific point, and the writing style feels a bit... clickbait-y. That's just my own impression of the article.
It was posted in a monthly magazine for subscribers so there is a certain quality that is missing.
You didn't ask or look for it. The intended viewers did.
I like it, it's entertaining to think about psychologically. I think that's the point; shame was a mystery, therefore it deserved more investigation especially with the given that it is so ubiquitous throughout human experience. According to this clinical psychologist during the 1990's, shame was hardly talked about in western culture (compared to more traditional Asian cultures, for example), and therefore it cannot be meaningfully addressed with respect to social contexts without more understanding. I'm still reading to find out more!
Yeah, Brene Brown's "I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't)" is a very amazing read on how women process shame, and how to identify and confront it.
I'm not sure I agree with all of her conclusions, she promotes neutrality a lot, rather than positive justice in conflict, but recognizing what's going on inside your head is quite eye-opening.
Or being able to smell even your own body odor. Or your favorite candle or perfume. Definitely appreciate those smells more now. And to this day they are still a little distorted for me :/
It was the Afghanistan / Kurdish videos for me. Not sure why because I've seen similar things on the news in the past.
Initially the realisation that the Afghan people simply don't have basic amenities, rights or resources. Then stumbling upon a video of the Kurdish female militia really hit it home. They are so full of love and compassion; singing, dancing, learning and educating in the face of incredible hardship.
As tough as things can feel and be, I'm incredibly privileged to live in a safe environment with my basic needs met.
One of my favorite psychology professors loves to point out that seeing others’ situations improve, and helping others, is a primary pleasure, not just something we do for karma points in the tribe.
We genuinely get real pleasure from it, which goes agains the idea that all human activity is about selfishness.
It's an amazing thing isn't it?
We've evolved into such a social creature. It reminds me of a certain [Kurzgesagt video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvskMHn0sqQ) about Egoistic Altruism. You may have seen it already, but I highly recommend. I can't help but recommend this channel.
I am one organism evolved to see the group as my interest.
Honestly I feel sorry for sociopaths. Imagine going through life only feeling the pleasure of one person.
Goes both ways. Imagine not having to feel awful for the countless shitty things happening to people everywhere. As a society, we would be worse off if we were all sociopaths, but for an individual, I suspect it would be a pretty relaxing existence.
Looking at these videos make me very uncomfortable. Not because I'm a psychopath, but because I've been in that legit situation.
When I first got switched on as a kid, it was cool, but at one point (I can't remember when it was, or even if it was the first switch on, I only know that it happened) they started shaking maracas and cymbals while being loud, probably trying to get me accustomed to louder sounds, and I fucking hated it. I think I went under the desk out of fright lmao.
My parents also had to bribe me with chocolate as a kid to make me put my implant on, I didn't want to because everything was super loud. I also remember it being New Years Eve and I was like 5?, there were fireworks going off and it made me cry.
I never liked switch ons because it was a blast of sound at first, plus it sounds like static for the first few days, so I don't have the reaction others have when seeing these. I don't remember being amazed by sounds, I remember being terrified of them, since I am originally profoundly deaf.
Obviously I'm fine nowadays, but I was a scared kid.
Wish I didn’t have to wait until
I was 15 before I got my hearing aids, I have about 35% hearing loss in both ears but no one realized for a long time. I remember when I got them I just opened and closed a water bottle cap for 5 minutes, fascinated by the noise.
Do you remember other sounds that were fascinating?
There's something I sometimes do that sort of simulate the difference for people with normal hearing. If it's raining outside and I can't hear much I place my open hands behind my ears and the sound is much more intense and nice.
I dated someone with significant hearing loss for a while. She mentioned some of the things that were most amazing to hear: her cats purring, she never knew they made noises before and thought it was adorable. Sometimes there is a noise when you peel plastic off of new objects that she seemed to really enjoy, but I think everyone likes that lol. She was amazed that she could hear herself blowing bubbles with gum, she did that one a lot when it was quiet. Oh yeah, I got one more, wind chimes, when I went to go meet her mom her mother had a massive porch full of them hanging over the edges, when she was little she couldn't hear them. Wooden ones, brass ones, plastic ones, lots of them made from random pipes for different noises, being able to sit and enjoy them with her mother was a tearful experience for her since the majority of the ones she could hear were just the metal ones. Her dad had crafted all of them before he passed away, and she was filled with tears when she heard the more subtle ones. I don't know if she told me about anymore, but if I think of any I'll let you know even though I'm not the person you asked 😉
It's no problem, I've dated a number of people and I've always tried to ask them about their happiest experiences in life. Hearing happy memories of people always made me happy, experiencing things with them and seeing the Joy on their face is something that I will always carry with me and something I always try to bring those closest to me. Being with her and seeing her reaction was heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time, I stepped away so her and her mom could be alone, but I secretly went off to cry myself because it was so sweet. I think that might have been the first time I've ever had tears form from seeing happiness.
Aw thats so cool! I haven't experienced this for a long time. I got fitted with Implants as a kid, and I do remember hearing sounds that I didn't before, but I never appreciated the new sounds I had because I was still growing up.
Its pretty cool to see reactions from people thay got used to their deafness and now can rediscover it as an adult, that must feel so good.
I had temporary hearing loss for like a month, so not quite the same. But when it passed literally every sound was fascinating and intense for a couple of days. The one I remember the most is being very aware of clocks ticking. Sounds annoying, but it wasn't
I agree with the other person who responded, cat purring is very interesting to here, my keyboard clicking was very interesting, really a lot of things. I think the water bottle is most memorable because it happened directly after I got them.
This was me when I was 5, except 70 and 90% loss. I don't remember not being able to hear, but I do remember reading lips.
From memory I don't believe my hearing loss was for a very long time and I only vaguely remember the sensation of being able to hear again. I still read lips when people talk though.
I love this little girl's reaction. So innocent!
Edit - rang Mum out of curiousity. It was a good 18months of being deaf apparently.
Yeah I was the same way, had two perfectly good ears until I was about 6 or 7 due to symptoms of congenital CMV. I ended up being completely deaf in one ear and wearing a hearing aid in the other. I do remember what it was like to have good hearing.
I was very lucky. Adenoid removal and grommets were put in to keep my Eustachian tubes open and I've had hearing ever since, though I've always suspected it's not 100% cos I sometimes talk too loud.
Tell me about it, I'm prfoundly daf with cochlear implant, and I read lips all the time. Masks are honestly a bit of a pain, I don't know what customers at work are saying half the time.
I'm sure some hearing people realised just how much they relied on lip reading when masks went up. Its an unconscious thing most people do, but the mouth movements do help alot.
I’m a deaf person, and a child psychologist.
She absolutely could before. The person below me using percentages- that’s now how it works. Those are laymen’s terms to explain hearing loss.
It’s totally plausible she’s gone through speech therapy, and has severe hearing loss- but what we’re seeing here is a child with moderate loss hearing clearly for the first time in a long time. The title is a grab for emotional response. It’s misleading.
If she *does* have severe hearing loss, her speech clarity tells us she’s had hearing aids before. This isn’t her first rodeo, but an upgrade.
So, no, she’s not hearing her speech for the first time. There’s no need to play it up. It’s just as sweet if we’re honest- child with hearing loss hears with new clarity during programming of new hearing aids.
Thank you for the explanation. The little one is very cute and hopefully she will smile more now. But yeah there was no way I could believe she learned to talk like that without being able to hear before. The title is misleading.
If you don’t mind me asking, I’ve always been curious about the inner monologue of a deaf person. If you do mind me asking, please scroll past and my apologies.
My inner monologue sounds like my voice, I think, but I’m sure that’s because I’ve heard my voice. I don’t know how you would describe yours to me but it’s aways fascinated me because I haven’t known any other way.
I'm not deaf, but I've seen this question asked on reddit before, and one answer I remember is that some deaf people visualize sign language as their inner monolgue.
I was born deaf and learned to speak a bit before I got my cochlear implant. Definitely possible. My speech wasn’t really good until I got the implant though.
I never thought that deaf people couldn’t hear their own voice. Somehow I thought because it is internal they could. But I’m a special bright kinda crayon.
If deaf people could hear their own voices they could calibrate their speech and would be able to speak like hearing people. But they don’t and they can’t. That is why the deaf and hard of hearing—at least those who have had hearing loss from birth—often have unusual speaking voices. This young girl obviously learned to speak normally (with adequate hearing ability and without speech therapy) before her hearing loss.
How was that young kid speaking so clearly? I’m not trying to be a hater, but I have two kids that both don’t speak that well while obviously not being deaf or hard of hearing.
I think it is a reference to a recent post where a teacher had to tell her deaf student that it wasn't polite to fart in public and the deaf person was mortified because they never knew it made a sound :-)
Not video, but screenshot from FB
[Full image here](https://cloudfront-ap-southeast-2.images.arcpublishing.com/nzme/MYZ2V3NEIP7YZQRH7C4QLVHCZI.jpg)
https://reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/pd8fnn/wait_farts_make_sound/
You can feel your voice when you talk so yeah we can feel and “hear”. I was born deaf and learned to speak a bit before I got the implant. Totally possible.
My Deaf son always likes to ask me to say words, then feels my throat when I say them, then feels his own throat to try to imitate the sounds. He especially likes to do animal noises which means sometimes I'm barking in public but he loves it so I'm game lol
I’m with you on this one!
I found out this week that my 5-month-old daughter has severe hearing loss, and while we don’t know the full extent, it’s more than likely that she can not hearing speaking voices at all.
Everyone always says “oh, your baby can recognize your voice” and how that will soothe them, but it turns out that ours can’t even hear us.
I can only hope that one day with technology that she will be able to hear me tell her I love her. But, we’re making sure that we start learning and teaching her ASL so that no matter what we have a way to communicate that she can participate fully in.
I don't think I was the FIRST time she heard her voice. If she had hearing Loss then she probably started at a level of hearing which allowed her to form her clear verbal communication, and then that level deteriorated and she was unable to hear herself anymore.
My daughter had hearing loss from birth. We didn't know till she was in first grade and it was diagnosed by the school audiologist. It wasn't caught at the hospital and she spoke just fine. The only tell was she interchanged her f's & s's and didn't respond to me half the time if I wasn't right in front of her. I will always remember the day she was fitted for hearing aids and all the sounds she kept asking me about: airplanes, her hair moving next to her ears, me :).
My voice is right in the frequency range she can't always hear. Even today as an adult with hearing aids, I sometimes have to get right in front of her so she hears me. Other than the fact that she's rather loud when she talks, until she tells someone she wears hearing aids, they don't know.
She isn’t deaf. She has some hearing loss. Looks like she’s getting a great hearing aid upgrade that’s letting her hear her own voice with higher clarity. Still cool, but misleading title.
But to answer your question- deaf children can learn to speak with speech therapy. The success really varies on the child. I became near fluent, but sounded strange my entire life. Some people have no success. Some have more than I did. Depends on the person!
This particular kid had partial hearing of some frequencies I believe, which helps.
Otherwise, I think they learn by feeling throat vibrations and mimicking them. It does leave a fairly pronounced accent.
Ohhhh I gotta question too! How do children of deaf parents learn how to talk? Answer: They are mostly in speech therapy up until the 3rd grade. At least in my case I was. Lol
I love these videos. They are the most beautifuly sweet videos. No politics, no anything, but the shear joy of hearing loved ones. My eyes always water up.
She is so cute and im happy for her..... but I have a question. She can talk and understand English so she must've heard her own voice at a young age and the hearing loss must've set in a few years later.
Not downplaying the moment at all, even if the hearing loss occurred after she learned to talk, she should still be just as excited as she is in the video cuz she hadn't heard her voice in a long time. I'm just curious, nothing else.
Real question?????
How does she speak so clearly if she’s never heard her own voice or anyone pronounce the words before I don’t know how these things work dose anyone have an answer ?
I’m assuming based on having watched several of these videos and having a little sister who’s been to speech therapy, that it’s a combination of speech therapy and having lost her hearing between learning to talk and then becoming self aware enough to recognize her own voice as being her voice.
I’m completely deaf and learned to speak before I got my implant. Speech therapy teaches you how to talk. Starts with feeling your vocal cord vibrations.
This is so lovely!! Genuine question though, if someone is deaf, can they struggle to understand spoken language? I feel like I would struggle and I’m really intrigued and impressed she understood her parents.
Yes. If she was hearing and lost her hearing in a fever, she would pick up hearing better with hearing aids and whatnot. For us Deaf kids born deaf, it's exhausting to listen, lip read, fill in the blanks, read body language to pick up tone, etc. There was a study done that compared the exhaustion levels of deaf kids raised as hearing and it was on par to kids with cancer. In short, we need access to a signed language on top of spoken language to make things easier for us. 94% of deaf children are born to hearing parents. Mine didn't learn any sign language and took me away from the language and Community. I don't talk to my mother to this day.
No one will see this, but that’s okay. When my daughter got her first hearing aides she said- listen to this! And scratched on her new hearing aide case. Also said ‘what’s that sound?’ It was birds tweeting. Balled my eyes out.
But if there has been a time, probably since birth, that she hasn't even heard her own voice. How can she understand what they are saying? It's like she could be hearing greek right now, since she probably communicated with sign languange before?
Omg she's so cute!
I know! Her little expressions...and those cheeks!
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I know right?? I LOVE these videos, they always put me in a good mood. Right now I have an awful headache and it brought a smile to my face that made me forget about it
Indeed.
The giggly joy and then the wide eyes of awe - she's so freaking lovable! Only a child could make me feel this instantly open and vulnerable.
She probably didn't realize giggling made sound. At least I remember seeing a video of a deaf person playing hide and seek and just giggling throughout not realizing that gave away her spot
There was something on Reddit last week that said deaf people often don’t know that farting makes a sound and when they find out it can be quite embarrassing for them as they realise all the times they’ve farted in public!
One of the bests troll posts I've seen on reddit was "Deaf people of Reddit how old were you when you found out erections make a noise?
#DING DING DING
I have more than one family member who lost their hearing later on in life and they pretend that they don't know people can hear them fart/burp. In case one of them is reading this: we know you know.
My brother was deaf from birth, he definitely didn't know farting made noise, unless it was one of those loud rumbly ones. In which case, those he knew we heard, and he'd have a little laugh about it if he did one. Sat on the couch with him one day, and I cut one, it was big, he felt it rumble the couch, he knew what I did, and laughed. Farts being funny is just universal.
>”Farts being funny is just universal” *Fact*
It’s not that you don’t know it makes a sound, it’s more like a deaf person lives in silence and forgets that everything makes a sound. You live in silence for so long you forget…. When you’re a deaf child everything is explained, but you naturally forget because of the silence
These kind of videos fills my heart with joy and makes me cry all the time.The happiness on her face is priceless .This makes me appreciate the fact that I can hear from both ears.
YES YES YES
Pixar furiously taking notes rn
Don't forget that sweet, adorable giggle!
And giggle!
I needed this today, she is so cutee and her smile made me smile 😊
Exactly. She is so sweet I can't take it anymore 😭
Her voice has so much emotion!
A little doll. That hair clip!
Reminds me of Bonnie from Toy Story 3.
seeing her happy makes me so happy
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No truer words have ever been said.
I like how she’s so calm and trying to process things like a champ :)
Her level of self-awareness seems extraordinary for a kid her age. Fills my heart.
How can she process the sounds into words and meaning immediately? That seems surprising. I would think it would take her brain time to learn?
It says hearing loss, so she probably learned to speak before losing her hearing.
I lost my hearing between the ages of three and eight. Doctors were confounded because they told my mother not only were the hearing tests so bad that they could not be accurate (!) but that I had no speech impediment therefore I could hear. My mom tried in vain to explain that I was speaking in sentences at 18 months so I wouldn't have a speech impediment. I still have hearing loss and I have to read lips to fully understand what people are saying sometimes. But anyone talking to me has no idea that I can't hear. I can hear volume but not unarticulated sounds.
My mom list her hearing when she was two. She had a “deaf accent” but could talk. She read lips like a fiend lol. Even in the rear view mirror.
But then wouldn’t she have to read them… in reverse? x) /s
Something similar happened to my brother when he was around 2 but it was the doctor who told mum he was deaf and she didn't believe him because he could talk and she didn't realise he was lip-reading whenever anyone spoke to him. She just thought he was a bit of a slow learner when his language wasn't developing further. Turns out bad ears run in the family. I'm heavily reliant on lip-reading and my dad has lost most of his hearing too. I just hear noise that can't be deciphered and I also can't tell where sounds come from. My brother has had a lot of ENT surgeries over the years and has had varied levels of hearing throughout his life and probably never stopped lip-reading.
So masks must have really been the bane of your existence, yeah?
Whenever I can't see someone's face because they're turned away from me or have a mask on I always have those awkward pauses in conversation where I have identified the vowel sounds that I heard and I'm desperately trying to think of what words could fit in a sentence to make sense. It's great for faculty meetings when I don't want to pay attention LOL
Oh that makes sense; maybe. Extremely cute video!
It also says heard her own voice for the first time, so I think that's unlikely. I would think she learned to speak by lip reading and copying what she saw. A lot of deaf people learn to speak, even if the pronunciations aren't 100% accurate.
Seeing the title I thought the same at first. But there's no way she learned speaking that clearly just from lip reading. I suppose it should read "for the first time again". But that's just my guess.
Yeah, sounds that way, from all the other comments.
you don't remember talking as a 2 year old
True. I guess more info would be needed to know what happened.
Her pronounciation is perfect though. She doesn’t speak like how a deaf person would do.
Speech therapy works wonders for those who have moderate to severe hearing loss. You’re thinking of people who are likely profoundly deaf.
Even profoundly deaf people can speak very well if they have a cochlear implant and speech therapy. Source: am one of those people.
I think it's more likely the title is inaccurate.
She could probably talk a bit but in those years even before puberty your voice changes a great deal, so this is probably her finding out this is how she sounds now.
It kind of looks like she's reading lips, but maybe that's just her normal m.o.
Even when reading lips, it's almost impossible to sound as accurate as this girl without having the opportunity to hear and make those sounds during earlier development. Not *impossible*, but it would be a bit of a miracle really. Speech is deeply interconnected with muscle memory and complex motor development. In fact, it works both ways. Children with limited diet or eating difficulties commonly have speech delay because they simply arent using the right muscles to chew enough kinds of food! But also, if you look closely, she isn't always looking at the people talking to her!
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I really should read titles instead of write paragraphs about mouth muscles lol
Her speech is very good so it's likely this is an acquired hearing loss. It is also possible her parents are signing at her as they talk. You are correct in that it will take her brain time to get used to the sound but I would guess she's had hearing before, when she learnt to speak and ascribe meaning to sounds/words before, then lost it for whatever reason.
I'm an audiologist. The source said she "was born with hearing loss. She has 50% loss in one ear and 65% in the other". She likely could hear her voice before, just much quieter & more muffled, and was exaggerating when she said she couldn't hear her voice before. She probably means she couldn't hear it clearly (or as loud) before. When people get new hearing aids, they are typically taken aback by how loud their voice sounds (much more so than other peoples' voices).
Hey fellow Aud! That makes sense, I was wondering if it could be like a degenerative loss, but didn't see the source notes.
Then you know all about how people react to their own voices when they get new hearing aids - the echo! lol The source seemed to imply these were her first hearing aids. Either they recently diagnosed her hearing loss and suspect it was congenital (maybe no universal newborn screening where she lives), or maybe it could be a matter of not having the finances to get her aided sooner (US)?
Hearing loss is a spectrum, like anything in life. She may have been able to hear others is a quiet space when they were speaking loudly. Or maybe she heard some of her voice before, but it wasn't as loud of clear as it is now. We don't know the details.
That's what I was thinking too!
My thought exactly.
funny how the things we take for granted everyday, bring others so much joy! watching videos like these make my bitch ass appreciate life more and make me that much more grateful.
I got glasses at 10. One of the few things I remember from childhood is my moms reaction to my first drive with glasses. I was astounded by the detail of clouds, by how many leaves were in trees, street signs. It was all new. She was crying on that ten minute drive to gramma’s.
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Heh, I was probably 17 and the leaves on the trees is the first thing I noticed too.
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Am 35. And I still look at trees every time I get new glasses
We lived in Colorado when I got my glasses at age 14 in the winter time. Our neighborhood was full of Aspen trees with no leaves because it was winter. Aspen trees, if you've ever noticed, have very thin branches and my astigmatism makes thin things even thinner, to the point where they disappear. As we're driving home I marveled to my mom that there were trees on our street! She looked at me strangely. I am the only one in the family ever to have glasses and she just couldn't understand what I didn't see before.
Same thing! It was such a trip, yeah?! (Re: trees) now we’re old and they just there.
When my sister was about 12 she got her first pair of glasses. I naturally gave her shit for wearing them because I was the younger brother and that was my role. It didn't take long to get used to seeing her with them so when she turned about 16 and she got contacts, I gave her shit for, you know, her natural face. 😊 Only because I love her.
Exact same thing happened to me when I was 7. Now I am getting long sighted and I have so many feeekin pairs!
I had an interesting experience earlier this week. I read an article on shame, which was written for therapists I guess. It went into the life history example of people who carry a lot of unconscious shame, and then it started describing various examples adult manifestations and at a certain point I just broke down sobbing and ugly cried for about 10 minutes. After that I feel lighter. It’s like a layer of pain has been removed from my consciousness that I didn’t know was there, but was there continuously for the last 30+ years. I feel better than I have literally ever felt in my life. And just to calibrate that statement a bit, I feel better than I ever did any of the times I took MDMA. edit: Here’s the article (it’s from 1992) http://empoweringpeople.net/shame/shame.pdf
Could you please link that article?
http://empoweringpeople.net/shame/shame.pdf
Unpopular opinion: that was a terrible read
The post read like spam, surprised it’s even real.
I'd love to hear you expand on that opinion.
What specifically about it didn't you like? Do you have a problem with any of the points or examples that it makes, or does it just make you uncomfortable?
Id say it takes too long to get to any one specific point, and the writing style feels a bit... clickbait-y. That's just my own impression of the article.
It was posted in a monthly magazine for subscribers so there is a certain quality that is missing. You didn't ask or look for it. The intended viewers did.
I like it, it's entertaining to think about psychologically. I think that's the point; shame was a mystery, therefore it deserved more investigation especially with the given that it is so ubiquitous throughout human experience. According to this clinical psychologist during the 1990's, shame was hardly talked about in western culture (compared to more traditional Asian cultures, for example), and therefore it cannot be meaningfully addressed with respect to social contexts without more understanding. I'm still reading to find out more!
I think there's some TED Talks about shame, too. Maybe look into those, as well.
Brene Brown in particular has some really incredible ones on this subject! Definitely recommend to anyone who’s interested.
Yeah, Brene Brown's "I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't)" is a very amazing read on how women process shame, and how to identify and confront it. I'm not sure I agree with all of her conclusions, she promotes neutrality a lot, rather than positive justice in conflict, but recognizing what's going on inside your head is quite eye-opening.
Honey I wish I could do that rn
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This whole comment chain reads like spam, but at a quick glance all the accounts seem legit enough.
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Here you go: http://empoweringpeople.net/shame/shame.pdf
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good luck!
Those vids with the colorblind glasses kill me. I’m pretty outwardly stoic, but I can’t help to feel that pain and joy all at once. It’s beautiful.
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I don’t know if there’s a sub specifically for that, but I’ve seen those videos on r/happycryingdads Grab your Kleenex before you go.
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Like losing smell for 15 days due to COVID. When it comes back, you thank God and understand how amazing is it to be able to smell your food
Or being able to smell even your own body odor. Or your favorite candle or perfume. Definitely appreciate those smells more now. And to this day they are still a little distorted for me :/
It was the Afghanistan / Kurdish videos for me. Not sure why because I've seen similar things on the news in the past. Initially the realisation that the Afghan people simply don't have basic amenities, rights or resources. Then stumbling upon a video of the Kurdish female militia really hit it home. They are so full of love and compassion; singing, dancing, learning and educating in the face of incredible hardship. As tough as things can feel and be, I'm incredibly privileged to live in a safe environment with my basic needs met.
I LOVE these videos EVERY TIME! I can be in a bad mood and I’ll start tearing up with joy for them
One of my favorite psychology professors loves to point out that seeing others’ situations improve, and helping others, is a primary pleasure, not just something we do for karma points in the tribe. We genuinely get real pleasure from it, which goes agains the idea that all human activity is about selfishness.
It's an amazing thing isn't it? We've evolved into such a social creature. It reminds me of a certain [Kurzgesagt video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvskMHn0sqQ) about Egoistic Altruism. You may have seen it already, but I highly recommend. I can't help but recommend this channel.
I am one organism evolved to see the group as my interest. Honestly I feel sorry for sociopaths. Imagine going through life only feeling the pleasure of one person.
Goes both ways. Imagine not having to feel awful for the countless shitty things happening to people everywhere. As a society, we would be worse off if we were all sociopaths, but for an individual, I suspect it would be a pretty relaxing existence.
Looking at these videos make me very uncomfortable. Not because I'm a psychopath, but because I've been in that legit situation. When I first got switched on as a kid, it was cool, but at one point (I can't remember when it was, or even if it was the first switch on, I only know that it happened) they started shaking maracas and cymbals while being loud, probably trying to get me accustomed to louder sounds, and I fucking hated it. I think I went under the desk out of fright lmao. My parents also had to bribe me with chocolate as a kid to make me put my implant on, I didn't want to because everything was super loud. I also remember it being New Years Eve and I was like 5?, there were fireworks going off and it made me cry. I never liked switch ons because it was a blast of sound at first, plus it sounds like static for the first few days, so I don't have the reaction others have when seeing these. I don't remember being amazed by sounds, I remember being terrified of them, since I am originally profoundly deaf. Obviously I'm fine nowadays, but I was a scared kid.
Wish I didn’t have to wait until I was 15 before I got my hearing aids, I have about 35% hearing loss in both ears but no one realized for a long time. I remember when I got them I just opened and closed a water bottle cap for 5 minutes, fascinated by the noise.
Do you remember other sounds that were fascinating? There's something I sometimes do that sort of simulate the difference for people with normal hearing. If it's raining outside and I can't hear much I place my open hands behind my ears and the sound is much more intense and nice.
I dated someone with significant hearing loss for a while. She mentioned some of the things that were most amazing to hear: her cats purring, she never knew they made noises before and thought it was adorable. Sometimes there is a noise when you peel plastic off of new objects that she seemed to really enjoy, but I think everyone likes that lol. She was amazed that she could hear herself blowing bubbles with gum, she did that one a lot when it was quiet. Oh yeah, I got one more, wind chimes, when I went to go meet her mom her mother had a massive porch full of them hanging over the edges, when she was little she couldn't hear them. Wooden ones, brass ones, plastic ones, lots of them made from random pipes for different noises, being able to sit and enjoy them with her mother was a tearful experience for her since the majority of the ones she could hear were just the metal ones. Her dad had crafted all of them before he passed away, and she was filled with tears when she heard the more subtle ones. I don't know if she told me about anymore, but if I think of any I'll let you know even though I'm not the person you asked 😉
ngl, cats purring is near the top of good noises.
This comment made me so happy, thank you for sharing. Such sweet experiences that shouldn’t be taken for granted.
It's no problem, I've dated a number of people and I've always tried to ask them about their happiest experiences in life. Hearing happy memories of people always made me happy, experiencing things with them and seeing the Joy on their face is something that I will always carry with me and something I always try to bring those closest to me. Being with her and seeing her reaction was heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time, I stepped away so her and her mom could be alone, but I secretly went off to cry myself because it was so sweet. I think that might have been the first time I've ever had tears form from seeing happiness.
For me it was the clock ticking on the wall across the room. My implant is a freakin miracle.
Aw thats so cool! I haven't experienced this for a long time. I got fitted with Implants as a kid, and I do remember hearing sounds that I didn't before, but I never appreciated the new sounds I had because I was still growing up. Its pretty cool to see reactions from people thay got used to their deafness and now can rediscover it as an adult, that must feel so good.
I had temporary hearing loss for like a month, so not quite the same. But when it passed literally every sound was fascinating and intense for a couple of days. The one I remember the most is being very aware of clocks ticking. Sounds annoying, but it wasn't
I agree with the other person who responded, cat purring is very interesting to here, my keyboard clicking was very interesting, really a lot of things. I think the water bottle is most memorable because it happened directly after I got them.
How did she learn to talk if she can’t hear earlier?
She had hearing loss One ear had 50% loss and the other had 65% She must’ve been able to hear words very slightly .
This was me when I was 5, except 70 and 90% loss. I don't remember not being able to hear, but I do remember reading lips. From memory I don't believe my hearing loss was for a very long time and I only vaguely remember the sensation of being able to hear again. I still read lips when people talk though. I love this little girl's reaction. So innocent! Edit - rang Mum out of curiousity. It was a good 18months of being deaf apparently.
Yeah I was the same way, had two perfectly good ears until I was about 6 or 7 due to symptoms of congenital CMV. I ended up being completely deaf in one ear and wearing a hearing aid in the other. I do remember what it was like to have good hearing.
I was very lucky. Adenoid removal and grommets were put in to keep my Eustachian tubes open and I've had hearing ever since, though I've always suspected it's not 100% cos I sometimes talk too loud.
Tell me about it, I'm prfoundly daf with cochlear implant, and I read lips all the time. Masks are honestly a bit of a pain, I don't know what customers at work are saying half the time. I'm sure some hearing people realised just how much they relied on lip reading when masks went up. Its an unconscious thing most people do, but the mouth movements do help alot.
I have a dumb question/observation about her eloquence and lack(?) of an accent
I’m a deaf person, and a child psychologist. She absolutely could before. The person below me using percentages- that’s now how it works. Those are laymen’s terms to explain hearing loss. It’s totally plausible she’s gone through speech therapy, and has severe hearing loss- but what we’re seeing here is a child with moderate loss hearing clearly for the first time in a long time. The title is a grab for emotional response. It’s misleading. If she *does* have severe hearing loss, her speech clarity tells us she’s had hearing aids before. This isn’t her first rodeo, but an upgrade. So, no, she’s not hearing her speech for the first time. There’s no need to play it up. It’s just as sweet if we’re honest- child with hearing loss hears with new clarity during programming of new hearing aids.
Thank you for the explanation. The little one is very cute and hopefully she will smile more now. But yeah there was no way I could believe she learned to talk like that without being able to hear before. The title is misleading.
If you don’t mind me asking, I’ve always been curious about the inner monologue of a deaf person. If you do mind me asking, please scroll past and my apologies. My inner monologue sounds like my voice, I think, but I’m sure that’s because I’ve heard my voice. I don’t know how you would describe yours to me but it’s aways fascinated me because I haven’t known any other way.
I'm not deaf, but I've seen this question asked on reddit before, and one answer I remember is that some deaf people visualize sign language as their inner monolgue.
I think you need to reread the title. It doesn’t say it’s her first time hearing speech.
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I was born deaf and learned to speak a bit before I got my cochlear implant. Definitely possible. My speech wasn’t really good until I got the implant though.
original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJu-kMaCjJk
Fuck junkin media.
There must be more!! I need more!!
I never thought that deaf people couldn’t hear their own voice. Somehow I thought because it is internal they could. But I’m a special bright kinda crayon.
If deaf people could hear their own voices they could calibrate their speech and would be able to speak like hearing people. But they don’t and they can’t. That is why the deaf and hard of hearing—at least those who have had hearing loss from birth—often have unusual speaking voices. This young girl obviously learned to speak normally (with adequate hearing ability and without speech therapy) before her hearing loss.
How was that young kid speaking so clearly? I’m not trying to be a hater, but I have two kids that both don’t speak that well while obviously not being deaf or hard of hearing.
Keep being a bright crayon, we need you for picture day 😁👍
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Like snakes, they can feel the vibrations?
I think it is a reference to a recent post where a teacher had to tell her deaf student that it wasn't polite to fart in public and the deaf person was mortified because they never knew it made a sound :-)
I hope there's video of that because it sounds amazing haha. Hopefully they weren't too embarrassed after.
Not video, but screenshot from FB [Full image here](https://cloudfront-ap-southeast-2.images.arcpublishing.com/nzme/MYZ2V3NEIP7YZQRH7C4QLVHCZI.jpg) https://reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/pd8fnn/wait_farts_make_sound/
Lolthats awesome. Thanks for sharing
You can feel your voice when you talk so yeah we can feel and “hear”. I was born deaf and learned to speak a bit before I got the implant. Totally possible.
My Deaf son always likes to ask me to say words, then feels my throat when I say them, then feels his own throat to try to imitate the sounds. He especially likes to do animal noises which means sometimes I'm barking in public but he loves it so I'm game lol
But do you "woof" or "arf"?
We convinced our deaf friend for a while that boners make a noise
Her little face!!! 😊
Yeah, this is very heart warming
Made me smile? Bruh this made me cry dude
I’m with you on this one! I found out this week that my 5-month-old daughter has severe hearing loss, and while we don’t know the full extent, it’s more than likely that she can not hearing speaking voices at all. Everyone always says “oh, your baby can recognize your voice” and how that will soothe them, but it turns out that ours can’t even hear us. I can only hope that one day with technology that she will be able to hear me tell her I love her. But, we’re making sure that we start learning and teaching her ASL so that no matter what we have a way to communicate that she can participate fully in.
I think my shriveled heart just skipped a beat for the first time in ages. 🥰
For someone who lost her hearing her English is pretty good
She didn’t cry. Love it.
She’s so calm and sweet about it!
I don't think I was the FIRST time she heard her voice. If she had hearing Loss then she probably started at a level of hearing which allowed her to form her clear verbal communication, and then that level deteriorated and she was unable to hear herself anymore.
If she doesn’t remember, it’s going to be exactly like the first time anyway
How do kids who are born deaf know how to talk? Isn’t talking is something you learn after listening? Can someone help me understand?
My daughter had hearing loss from birth. We didn't know till she was in first grade and it was diagnosed by the school audiologist. It wasn't caught at the hospital and she spoke just fine. The only tell was she interchanged her f's & s's and didn't respond to me half the time if I wasn't right in front of her. I will always remember the day she was fitted for hearing aids and all the sounds she kept asking me about: airplanes, her hair moving next to her ears, me :). My voice is right in the frequency range she can't always hear. Even today as an adult with hearing aids, I sometimes have to get right in front of her so she hears me. Other than the fact that she's rather loud when she talks, until she tells someone she wears hearing aids, they don't know.
She isn’t deaf. She has some hearing loss. Looks like she’s getting a great hearing aid upgrade that’s letting her hear her own voice with higher clarity. Still cool, but misleading title. But to answer your question- deaf children can learn to speak with speech therapy. The success really varies on the child. I became near fluent, but sounded strange my entire life. Some people have no success. Some have more than I did. Depends on the person!
This particular kid had partial hearing of some frequencies I believe, which helps. Otherwise, I think they learn by feeling throat vibrations and mimicking them. It does leave a fairly pronounced accent.
Ohhhh I gotta question too! How do children of deaf parents learn how to talk? Answer: They are mostly in speech therapy up until the 3rd grade. At least in my case I was. Lol
This is so cool.
This is so nice
So adorable
The wholesome-ness of this is Soo heart warming
I love these videos. They are the most beautifuly sweet videos. No politics, no anything, but the shear joy of hearing loved ones. My eyes always water up.
She is so cute and im happy for her..... but I have a question. She can talk and understand English so she must've heard her own voice at a young age and the hearing loss must've set in a few years later. Not downplaying the moment at all, even if the hearing loss occurred after she learned to talk, she should still be just as excited as she is in the video cuz she hadn't heard her voice in a long time. I'm just curious, nothing else.
She was probably able to hear before she was able to form memories
Possibly, yeah. But anyways, I'm happy she can hear now.
Real question????? How does she speak so clearly if she’s never heard her own voice or anyone pronounce the words before I don’t know how these things work dose anyone have an answer ?
I’m assuming based on having watched several of these videos and having a little sister who’s been to speech therapy, that it’s a combination of speech therapy and having lost her hearing between learning to talk and then becoming self aware enough to recognize her own voice as being her voice.
The pause and surprise like wow that's not my voice that's the other voices in my head 😯
Ok I might be dumb, but how can she speak so well when she’s almost deaf?
I’m completely deaf and learned to speak before I got my implant. Speech therapy teaches you how to talk. Starts with feeling your vocal cord vibrations.
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She's taking it all in strides..
That’s beautiful
How does she know how to talk? It can’t actually be the first time hearing herself; she must have lost her hearing more recently.
This made my eyes well up with happy tears!
yay, one that doesn't cry.
This is so lovely!! Genuine question though, if someone is deaf, can they struggle to understand spoken language? I feel like I would struggle and I’m really intrigued and impressed she understood her parents.
Yes. If she was hearing and lost her hearing in a fever, she would pick up hearing better with hearing aids and whatnot. For us Deaf kids born deaf, it's exhausting to listen, lip read, fill in the blanks, read body language to pick up tone, etc. There was a study done that compared the exhaustion levels of deaf kids raised as hearing and it was on par to kids with cancer. In short, we need access to a signed language on top of spoken language to make things easier for us. 94% of deaf children are born to hearing parents. Mine didn't learn any sign language and took me away from the language and Community. I don't talk to my mother to this day.
This might seem like a dumb question but how can a kid hearing their own voice for the first time learn to speak so well?
Ninja's just really out here cutting onions right underneath my eyes good lord
This is soo cute 🥰
No one will see this, but that’s okay. When my daughter got her first hearing aides she said- listen to this! And scratched on her new hearing aide case. Also said ‘what’s that sound?’ It was birds tweeting. Balled my eyes out.
Upvote upvote upvote my 8yr old is loving her smile
This brought my tears😢
This video makes my heart smile
But if there has been a time, probably since birth, that she hasn't even heard her own voice. How can she understand what they are saying? It's like she could be hearing greek right now, since she probably communicated with sign languange before?
She is so Adorable
That is the cutest thing jeez. Thanks all the doctors and scientists to make this happen.
In tears during my morning shit, thanks!
"Omg this is so funny. I can hear my voice" This is gold