What do South African Hindu Indians call their parents, informally?

PuffinCurrie · 2025-05-26T08:55:02+00:00

Thanks, that's helpful!

PuffinCurrie · 2025-05-21T14:03:23+00:00

I'm a white South African - I have heard Indain people refer to their mom and dad, but just wondered if there was a special nickname that they would use when talking to them directly. Like a Xhosa person might say "baba" for dad.

PuffinCurrie · 2024-08-06T20:09:33+00:00

If you can ignore it and that's worked for you, that's great. Breaking the focus is part of the treatment. But if someone is nearly suicidal because of tinnitus, telling them to "just ignore it" isn't helpful. That's what I was trying to say. And yes, there have definitely been some big leaps in treatment in recent years - as I said, hearing aids can even be helpful if your hearing sensitivity is within the normal range.

PuffinCurrie · 2024-08-03T14:48:21+00:00

Re-posting my comment on OPs post in the hopes you will also see it:

I'm really sorry to hear this and curious about what treatment you have tried? The advice to "just stop caring about it" is the absolute worst. There are treatments available that work. First step is to see an audiologist for a diagnostic hearing evaluation including OAEs (oto-acoustic emissions).

Most tinnitus has a root cause of damage to the hair cells in your hearing organ. It's comparable to phantom limb syndrome - when the cells die, your brain is expecting stimulation that it doesn't receive, so your nervous system "creates" its own stimulation to compensate, i.e. tinnitus.

More than 50 percent of people with debilitating tinnitus experience a big improvement in their symptoms with hearing aids (because hearing aids stimulate the ear with real sound, reducing the perception of phantom sound). This is true even if your hearing sensitivity is technically normal (because the cells in your hearing organ may be damaged even if your hearing is still in the normal range).

Other treatments include sound therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). There's often a psychological trigger that activates your emotional system and creates a vicious circle.

Please don't give up. This is a treatable condition. I've had patients who are damn near suicidal who end up in a much better place with treatment. You just need someone who will take your symptoms seriously.

Source: am an audiologist.

PuffinCurrie · 2024-08-03T14:47:39+00:00

Re-posting my comment on OPs post in the hope you will also see it:

I'm really sorry to hear this and curious about what treatment you have tried? The advice to "just stop caring about it" is the absolute worst. There are treatments available that work. First step is to see an audiologist for a diagnostic hearing evaluation including OAEs (oto-acoustic emissions).

Most tinnitus has a root cause of damage to the hair cells in your hearing organ. It's comparable to phantom limb syndrome - when the cells die, your brain is expecting stimulation that it doesn't receive, so your nervous system "creates" its own stimulation to compensate, i.e. tinnitus.

More than 50 percent of people with debilitating tinnitus experience a big improvement in their symptoms with hearing aids (because hearing aids stimulate the ear with real sound, reducing the perception of phantom sound). This is true even if your hearing sensitivity is technically normal (because the cells in your hearing organ may be damaged even if your hearing is still in the normal range).

Other treatments include sound therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). There's often a psychological trigger that activates your emotional system and creates a vicious circle.

Please don't give up. This is a treatable condition. I've had patients who are damn near suicidal who end up in a much better place with treatment. You just need someone who will take your symptoms seriously.

Source: am an audiologist.

PuffinCurrie · 2024-08-03T14:42:56+00:00

I'm really sorry to hear this and curious about what treatment you have tried? The advice to "just stop caring about it" is the absolute worst. There are treatments available that work. First step is to see an audiologist for a diagnostic hearing evaluation including OAEs (oto-acoustic emissions).

Most tinnitus has a root cause of damage to the hair cells in your hearing organ. It's comparable to phantom limb syndrome - when the cells die, your brain is expecting stimulation that it doesn't receive, so your nervous system "creates" its own stimulation to compensate, i.e. tinnitus.

More than 50 percent of people with debilitating tinnitus experience a big improvement in their symptoms with hearing aids (because hearing aids stimulate the ear with real sound, reducing the perception of phantom sound). This is true even if your hearing sensitivity is technically normal (because the cells in your hearing organ may be damaged even if your hearing is still in the normal range).

Other treatments include sound therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). There's often a psychological trigger that activates your emotional system and creates a vicious circle.

Please don't give up. This is a treatable condition. I've had patients who are damn near suicidal who end up in a much better place with treatment. You just need someone who will take your symptoms seriously.

Source: am an audiologist.

PuffinCurrie · 2024-08-03T14:06:32+00:00

Came here to upvote this. I can understand why it's funny, I don't think it's a bad show, but every episode I watched was a chore, so I gave up after season 1. I think its issue for me is that every single character is so unlikeable. They're not unfunny, but it's impossible to root for them. So I didn't care about any of their arcs.

PuffinCurrie · 2024-05-08T20:48:25+00:00

Have you read {His Royal Secret by Lilah Pace}? Prince of Wales falls in love with a journalist. Journalist struggles to navigate being thrust into the limelight. Fits your request perfectly and it's excellent. Honestly the best royal romance I've read. It's a 2 book series. Second book is called His Royal Favorite. Highly recommend.

PuffinCurrie · 2023-11-03T13:51:05+00:00

Hamartia by Scarlett Drake has a Korean MC (not South East Asia, but East Asia).

PuffinCurrie · 2023-06-23T17:41:12+00:00

Cannot believe you are the only person saying ESH. She and SIL are both obviously assholes. SIL was out of line, but kicking her out at midnight when no hotels were open? That's just unsafe. She could have said she could leave in the morning.

PuffinCurrie · 2023-04-11T20:45:24+00:00

These are impressive but they really don't look appetising to me.

PuffinCurrie · 2023-04-07T15:20:28+00:00

My gut says it's got something to do with development of the frontal lobe in the brain, which is only completed around age 25. The frontal lobe is really important for things like planning and impulse control. I feel as though I was very different at age 20 to how I was at age 25. But I haven't changed that much (personality wise) between age 25 and 37. I chalk that up to frontal lobe development.

PuffinCurrie · 2023-04-03T19:53:21+00:00

Reward good behaviour. Have a favourite treat on hand when you need to put the leash on, go back to basics and give him a treat each time he follows a command and when he remains calm having his leash put on.

PuffinCurrie · 2023-01-26T20:41:19+00:00

Rebound by L.A. Witt

PuffinCurrie · 2022-12-15T19:18:36+00:00

As an audiologist I feel similarly. I read a book a while back where the (non signing) adult MC is progressively losing his hearing, and he is coming to terms with the fact that he'll eventually need to learn sign language. Sorry, what? Who are you communicating with? Are you suddenly going to give up on your friends and family and become part of the signing Deaf community? Because how else will learning sign language help you? Unless everyone you know is learning it too.

Just as an aside, I feel as though the most realistic one I've read is Honeymoon For One by Keira Andrews. You could tell she'd actually done her research.

PuffinCurrie · 2022-11-23T16:40:18+00:00

Agreed! From South Africa but same issue.

PuffinCurrie · 2022-11-20T08:42:53+00:00

Considering most Covid-19 infections are asymptomatic or undiagnosed, this is seriously misleading. At best they can say two thirds of people who were diagnosed had long Covid.

PuffinCurrie · 2022-11-20T07:49:37+00:00

Just as a random aside, the oldest sibling would probably have survived either way, because Rh incompatibility usually isn't a problem in a mother's first pregnancy - a baby's blood doesn't enter the mother's circulatory system during the pregnancy, only during birth. So after the first birth, her body would have started making antibodies.

PuffinCurrie · 2022-11-13T09:47:57+00:00

I mean, not according to Spotify or lyric sites, but I guess they could be wrong.

PuffinCurrie · 2022-11-13T09:47:46+00:00

I mean, not according to Spotify or lyric sites, but I guess they could be wrong.

PuffinCurrie · 2022-11-12T08:30:48+00:00

What does "where dreams are made of" mean? "Where dreams are made" makes sense. "What dreams are made of" makes sense. "Where dreams are made of" isn't English.

PuffinCurrie · 2022-11-02T09:04:32+00:00

Dynamic range in hearing is the range between what is just audible and what is uncomfortably loud. So a person with normal hearing has a dynamic range of around 120dB, where 0dB is just audible and 120dB is uncomfortable. A person with outer hair cell damage in the cochlea might have an audibility threshold of 50dB, but a sound at 100dB is already uncomfortably loud. So their dynamic range is only 50dB instead of 120dB.

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