Lindsay Pearce Quotes

In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

I was born deaf. Sound never existed in my life, and this is completely normal to me.

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.

On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.

I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus... something like that.

The deaf community and the hearing community, there's not always a ton of interaction.

Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

I became deaf when I was 18 months old. And I learned to sign when I was 5 years old.

My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!

Although I'm deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I'm unable to distinguish sounds and can't hear anything.

I didn't wake up one day and just couldn't hear. I woke up one day and realized I was having difficulty, and that I had overcompensated by lip reading, so that I didn't really understand how bad it was.

My hearing is usually O.K.

I think being deaf gave me an increased sense of sight.

I'm almost completely deaf anyway. So I'm worried. I'm very worried.

I always say deafness is a silent disability: you can't see, and it's not life-threatening, so it has to touch your life in some way in order for it to be on your radar.