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[Stephanie]

Oh man, that really stinks, Cheyenne!

[M]

If a hearing aid would help, I hope you manage to get one! I have sort of the opposite problem. I hear well, but to me noise is almost like a physical invasion. I wear earplugs a lot, especially when I’m trying to sleep.

[Cheyenne]

Loud noises are horrible for me. I hear normal volume quieter than a normal hearing person would. So a loud noise like a firework is extremely unwelcome. I'm not used to it.
Getting a hearing aid can be really difficult for deaf or hard of hearing kids because a lot of us have resistant parents. They don't want to admit that their child has a problem. It's how my mother is. That's why I didn't get an inhaler until I was thirteen even though I was born with asthma. And it's why I still don't have a hearing aid. That's why I'm trying to publish my book and I'm going to go job-hunting when I get back from music camp next month. Hopefully by next year M, I'll have a hearing aid, but who knows. I expected to have a hearing aid by my sophomore year but that didn't happen. My hearing doctor says there are government aid programs that give scholarships to kids so they can get hearing aids, but I've yet to find them.

@Stephanie, yes it stinks very much. Hearing loss is a huge pain in the rear.

[Cheyenne]

On the plus side of my hearing loss getting worse, if I go completely deaf my doctor will have to get me a hearing aid for free. Though by then a hearing aid wouldn't do much..

[Edward]

Cheyenne wrote: "Hearing loss is a huge pain in the rear."

There's a terrible joke here that I'm very much tempted to crack. Which, by the way, is how I react to tragedy; I amp up my joke-per-comment ratio.

I was misdiagnosed with asthma and took an inhaler for seven years that (potentially permenantly) damaged my nerves in my hand. Once I stopped taking the albuterol, beclavin, and whatever else they were, my breathing cleared up, and I haven't had problems sense.

After that, and how they treated my mother when my brother was born, I can't really trust doctors. I can't think of a single instance in which they were proven right. (Blood tests say I have no allergies, a statement completely destroyed every time I eat hotdogs.)

Luckily, I'm actually a healthy person, so I don't have to trust doctors very much. I would hate to have to listen to them all the time like you, Cheyenne.

[Cheyenne]

So what's the joke you were tempted to crack?

And yeah, when I was eleven or twelve I was sick for like a week. My mom took me to my doctor and he said I just picked up a flu or something. A week later I was even sicker. My mom finally took me to the emergency room. I had pneumonia.

[Kymela]

I hate Navy doctors, especially the men. The women our mum and I had last time we were in VA were good, and the ER doctor at Portsmouth who actually asked another doctor to give us a second opinion before sending me home. Otherwise, I don't trust them.

[Edward]

When it came to Aidan's birth, the women were actually the more frustrating ones.

Just drop the first r from "rear," Cheyenne.

[Cheyenne]

That made me laugh Edward.

And yes, military doctors in general are disagreeable. It was military doctors who gave me hearing loss!! (Thanks guys! -_-)

[Cheyenne]

That's interesting. I don't think I can decide if that would be more irritating that silence and not being able to hear. I imagine both are probably about the same.

[M]

I love silence. I wouldn’t like being unable to hear well, though.

[Cheyenne]

I like silence too, but often when I think I'm enjoying silence there's actually somebody talking to me. I only notice when they lean over in front of my face and say, "Are you listening?" And my immediate thought is, Wait you were talking? People really act surprised, but it's their fault for talking into my bad ear no matter how many times I tell them if they're going to be on my left side they need to either TALK LOUD or switch to my right side and talk in my good ear.

[Cheyenne]

The only time it's nice is when someone has absolutely nothing interesting to say. I can turn my bad ear to them and murmur "Mmmm-hmm" every few moments

[Stephanie]

Rofl

[Cheyenne]

Heheh. I'm glad you find it amusing Stephanie--my mother doesn't. :p

[Stephanie]

Lol. I bet not.

[M]

Is anybody in the Poetry group? Guy’s poem got selected and is in the running in the contest this month! I just rejoined the group so I could vote. I see that he’s not doing very well.

[Stephanie]

No. I'm not. I'll check it out though.

[M]

It’s a despicable group. I wish my friends would get out of it. I have about a dozen friends who are in it, and their submissions keep getting picked in the monthly contests.

[Stephanie]

I just started reading some of the submissions. I felt like I was reading something out of my English book again, which (for me) isn't good. The majority of the poems I've read in my life have been boring.

Yeah, I used to be in the group but left. Wasn't my taste. I voted for Guy though. He had one of the best poems there. It's not that the others weren't written well they were just plain boring.

[M]

He’ll appreciate it! I wish I could think of a way to form a voting bloc. Those contests are a racket.

[Stephanie]

Do they have like two polls for the contest? One to elliminate some people--the other for the final decision?

[M]

Each judge picks two poems to put before the group vote. There are some really good poems that get submitted. Ajay had a poem selected for the voting last fall. I can’t remember whether he won. So there are members of the W.S.S. who have wound up in the race. I’ve never won, but I’ve had a couple of poems selected by the judges for voting. Guy makes three of us.

[Stephanie]

Oh? Who's the third person from here?

[M]

Ajay, me, and Guy. There may be more. That’s just all I can think of.

[Stephanie]

Nice.

[Guy]

Thanks for the vote, M and Stephanie. I really do appreciate it, but I have no delusions about winning. My writing (and what I like to read), is just a bit too far off the mainstream. That you made the effort to rejoin just to vote, M, was very kind. (The voting bloc idea made me laugh. All that would happen is you'd get us both kicked out! Which would not really be a bad thing.)

I guess the reward for submitting is to have a few more eyes read the words you've created. Somehow, writing that is read somehow completes the creative writing process.

M, I may still be a member, and submit poems occasionally, but I am no longer active there. Way too much fun, here. And more than that ... I don't want to sound sucky, here, but the WSS is much more positive and, really, really creative. My psychologically oriented mind has given this quite a lot of thought, actually, and WSS feels and is, I believe, far less limiting about what can be expressed and how it can be expressed, even with the PG13 restriction. M do you read any of their poetry threads these days? I haven't been at all. I found it too frustrating, oddly enough.

Anyway thank you again for making the effort to vote for me and for encouraging others in the WSS to do so.

Stephanie, your reaction echoes mine. Some months are much better than others, and usually at least one or two of the selected poems are excellent. I don't think Ajay's poem won. At least I don't remember it winning although I remember it being top 6. (It was an excellent poem.) Yours were also excellent, M.

I wonder who else here in the WSS has submitted to the poetry group and reached the final 6. There are several who I would expect to do well. Sadly, that likely means, given my off-centre aesthetic, that they wouldn't do well. LoL.

[Stephanie]

I submitted in my early days here at Goodread but I gave up. Haha. I got tired of submiting poems I was sure no one really read. And I saw everyone else's and knew it was for good reason too. XD

[Cheyenne]

I'm still in the Poetry group. But I haven't gone back too often since I asked about traditional vs self publishing and everyone tried to just talk me out of writing a book. Anyways, I'm going to vote for you now Guy

[Edward]

Why would someone attempt to talk you out of writing a book?

[Cheyenne]

I believe one of the reasons was to "get a bit of maturity under my belt". I'm not sure if that was insinuating that I'm immature, or if it was just a bit of helpful advice. Either way it rubbed me the wrong way.

[Edward]

... Huh? The only way to mature your writing is to write.

[Cheyenne]

They said to go to college as well. So I think it had to do more with my age, not my writing. I think it was more of a "You're too young to write a book."

[Edward]

Well, that's nonsense. Anyone who has lived to the age of twelve has enough life experience to transform into creative material for the rest of their life - I'm badly paraphrasing someone I can't remember here.

Also, college gives you exactly zero credential to be any kind of artist.

[Cheyenne]

Yeah. If I had my choice, I wouldn't even go to college. But I've already won a scholarship soo yeah. I might not go to college at all. If I've got enough money coming in from a job and my books by the time I graduate, to hell with college.

[Edward]

College is worthwhile for some careers, but not for others.

I know why page four of our popcorn nonsense blocked you out. I mentioned the word s*x, which I imagine would trip the parental system. We're working on editing them like I did above.

[Cheyenne]

By the way, thanks for tormenting me by commenting on the thread I can't view, LOL. And let me guess, there isn't even anything mildly inappropriate posted there

[Edward]

Oh, it's mildly inappropiate, but that's all. I reference the scene I was in the middle of writing, giving Guy and Al some ideas. You'll see.

[Cheyenne]

That's odd. I didn't think it was sensitive enough to pick up on typed words, only bad sites. Well I've got some chains, now don't I? *shakes head* Stupid thing

[Cheyenne]

Oh yeah I saw that. Then I went somewhere else and tried to go back to the page and it wouldn't let me. You and _____ (forgot your character/muse's name) were arguing about whether or not a scene could be considered a s*x scene. (Just in case the stupid thing blocks me because of my own comment -.-) Or something like that.

[Cheyenne]

Nice, Al. That made me laugh

[Edward]

Well, that's the first hint to those programs that a site might be bad. Computer programs operate on strict logic - either yes or no.

If webpage contains any of the following (suggestive words, bad pictures, etc.)
Then block.

Nothing halfway.

[Cheyenne]

Seriously not cool. Stupid computer. I could probably change the setting myself though. A while back my brother said he didn't even remember setting parental control on my account.

[Edward]

Cheyenne wrote: "Oh yeah I saw that. Then I went somewhere else and tried to go back to the page and it wouldn't let me. You and _____ (forgot your character/muse's name) were arguing about whether or not a scene c..."

Terry. It means "dramatically unique." It's accurate.

[Cheyenne]

Ahh that's right.

[Cheyenne]

You know, I don't think that's what is blocking me. I remember I read someone's story earlier today with that in it, and it didn't block me.

[Edward]

Perhaps ... multiple occurances? That would explain how you saw my comment the first time. I'll look for another explanation.

Of course, it could just be a dumb glitch.

[Cheyenne]

Great. Well while you guys finish up the censoring, I'm going to try and hack into my boyfriend's goodreads account. He's forgotten the password... *sighs*

[Edward]

Well ... try it now.

[Cheyenne]

Didn't work. And I might be a while, this is going to be a pain. We've both forgotten his email as well. Greeeaaaat. (Off to facebook in search of answers!)