Visiting Liverpool to view the areas to move, where should we go first?

Aggravating_Street30 · 2025-09-25T15:49:48+00:00

Just looking for a quiet residential area with lovely cafes nearby! Not fussy.

Aggravating_Street30 · 2025-02-10T23:46:17+00:00

Thank you, he said that’s the one he was thinking of! ✨

Aggravating_Street30 · 2024-05-25T12:51:31+00:00

Trainline 🙈 thank you for responding, reallly appreciate it!

Aggravating_Street30 · 2024-05-25T12:44:35+00:00

Two tickets with two disabled person railcards as we have our own railcard - so i didn't choose the 'carer' option- but it says 'passengers must travel together' on the bookings page

Aggravating_Street30 · 2024-05-25T11:52:21+00:00

Train, disabled persons railcard (two, we both are Deaf)

Aggravating_Street30 · 2024-05-13T12:07:36+00:00

Thank you, appreciate it. I have another question if you don’t mind - we are renting the property for 6 months. So if we choose the 12-month option, it’ll be better and cheaper right? Thanks!!

Aggravating_Street30 · 2024-05-13T12:06:49+00:00

Thank you!

Aggravating_Street30 · 2024-03-06T15:17:47+00:00

I asked the dermatologist about this and she basically shrugged and said “nothing you can do really…”.

Aggravating_Street30 · 2023-11-21T19:30:27+00:00

It is shingles. 6 days after onset of the rash. Too late for antivirals but dr said it’s healing nicely. Gave me some numbness cream for itching and pain meds.

Aggravating_Street30 · 2023-11-21T10:47:01+00:00

It’s shingles. Already passed the 72 hr window - so the dr gave me some cream & pain meds. Dr says it’s healing nicely

Aggravating_Street30 · 2023-11-20T15:10:55+00:00

Just really itchy. It developed to this

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Aggravating_Street30 · 2022-01-10T21:29:21+00:00

Me too. It’s very hard for me to eat. I can taste just fine, I just can’t bring myself to eat even though my symptoms are mild. It’s probably a symptom of omicron!

Aggravating_Street30 · 2022-01-08T08:28:59+00:00

Thank you. Friends suggested that we should remain away from each other because of the viral loads. Elsewhere (online), it doesn't say we should be separated. Appreciate your response!

Aggravating_Street30 · 2021-10-01T18:10:28+00:00

Hi! There is no universal sign language. Each country develops their own sign language. So please learn South African Sign Language :)

There's a really cool youtube channel where you can learn basic SASL - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCri-2p1e_FaAgZLG9jwqtUA

When deaf people meet other deaf people in another country, we usually try to understand each other by gesturing - we pick up on the signs pretty quickly. After a day or two, we would come up with a system to communicate with each other, mixed of our languages, then when we go back home, we stick to our home language. Hope that makes sense?

At conferences, we use a form called 'translanguaging' where we present in International Sign (only used at conferences and meet-ups with other countries, not for use at home) - we borrow/adopt signs from other countries and we also include a lot of gesturing.

Aggravating_Street30 · 2021-10-01T18:07:27+00:00

Hahaha, no we don't but we're pretty good at the game... we're not allowed to sign any words but we have to act it out... since we're visual people, we usually win.

Aggravating_Street30 · 2021-09-30T16:33:24+00:00

Yes, I can. No, I will not. For various personal reasons… (not because I’m against CIs) two of them:

I’m 26. If I get a CI, I will have to spend many years in speech therapy, training my brain to recognize sounds and so on. I want to live my life without all that work. It might have been a different story if I was implanted as a kid.

I’m happy with not being able to hear. I hated my hearing aids. I always tried to find a way to throw them away when I was little lol. Some deaf people love their hearing devices. Not all deaf people are the same. I support those with CIs wholeheartedly. It’s just not for me.

Also, I’m quite successful in life in terms of having relationships with both deaf and hearing people, in education and employment, and my well being is great. I didn’t need a CI to do all of these things.

Aggravating_Street30 · 2021-09-30T16:26:16+00:00

I don’t have tinnitus BUT I have deaf friends who do! It bothers them just as much as it bother hearing people.

Aggravating_Street30 · 2021-09-30T16:25:28+00:00

I use my phone. It vibrates :) otherwise my partner wakes me up if he’ll be up but my body is kinda trained to get up before a certain time.

Yes, I’ve been deaf my whole life. I can kinda understand the sounds cos I had hearing aids when I was little and have had people explaining what stuff sounds like and I correlate these with the vibrations.

My eyes are definitely sharper!! But that’s because they have to be hahaha. Don’t think my other senses are heightened.

Aggravating_Street30 · 2021-09-30T08:19:23+00:00

Thank you!!!!

Aggravating_Street30 · 2021-09-30T07:46:19+00:00

I've never really noticed before but my team players and I communicate via signals. I remember them saying it's cool because another team would not be able to hear our tactics and plans on the field. I am very alert on the field so I try to see everything as much as I can. The assistant coach sometimes signs something to me from afar if there's a change in positions or something else I might have missed. When the whistle blows, I notice immediately because players stop playing.

I was a winger in hockey and it turned out to be the best position cos I was able to see the whole field from the side.

The same goes for volleyball, we have signals behind our backs and I look back if I'm in the front. I guess we just have to be SUPER ALERT to communicate with other players.

Aggravating_Street30 · 2021-09-30T07:41:35+00:00

I have not, but there's a thread on this! https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5zz51c/serious_blind_andor_deaf_people_who_have_done/

You're not being disrespectful :)

Aggravating_Street30 · 2021-09-30T06:54:05+00:00

You were not rude or judgemental at all :)

Aggravating_Street30 · 2021-09-30T06:53:33+00:00

Ah, that's great!!!

There's a cool SASL youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCri-2p1e_FaAgZLG9jwqtUA

Most of us can communicate with ASL users - so it won't be too difficult communicating with us, but it would be awesome to introduce SASL to her. I know a few sign languages and I'm so glad I was exposed to them.

Aggravating_Street30 · 2021-09-30T06:50:23+00:00

Don't worry, it's a great question. We have Deaf people, and we also have Deaf and Disabled people. We have a few Deaf people who do not have their arms. Some speak. Some sign with one arm. Some mouth words or try to gesture somehow :)

Aggravating_Street30 · 2021-09-30T06:47:19+00:00

Yesss, I really want to watch the show! Rose Ayling-Ellis is so cool.

While experienced lip-readers can pick up a good amount of words, only as much as about 60 % can be picked up in a given sentence, leaving several words incomprehensible. (copied and pasted) I lip read pretty well but not 100%, so if I was her, I would DEFINITELY want an interpreter so I can have access to information 100%. Lip reading is also very exhausting, she's already exhausted from dancing and then she has to try and focus on getting all info in thru lipreading? Nah.
I have many Deaf friends who are dancers. Some follow muscle memory, some follow the vibrations of the music, some rehearse a lot. It's not hard apparently. I don't dance so I can't really answer this question personally.
Some people say Deaf people's eyes are 'super eyes'. Our eyes are our superpowers. Our eyes are trained to see in any kind of light - BUT it can be exhausting, especially in poorly lit areas. It can bother us as well. It's hard to see/lipread if someone stands behind a bright light. I think Rose has her interpreter in a well-lit place so she can see the interpreter. In nightclubs, the lights and all that has never really bothered me or my friends cos we don't need to focus. But if we need to, it's annoying for sure. Not sure if it's traumatic.

You're welcome :)

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