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c/upliftingnews · by alphacyberranger@lemmy.world · 2y

11-Year-Old Boy Hears For the First Time as Scientists Get Closer to Finding a Cure for Hearing Loss

https://www.headphonesty.com/2024/02/scientists-getting-closer-healing-hearing-loss/

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NegativeInf@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 2y (2 replies)

“There’s no sound I don’t like…they’re all good.” he shares in an interview with the New York Times.

idunnololz@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y

Awwwwwwww

Cypher@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
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RedIce25@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 2y (15 replies)

Does it include tinnitus as well?

chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net · 22 pts · 2y (2 replies)

No kidding. Would love to finally experience actual silence for a change.

hoss@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Did you every try that temporary fix with your hands and the finger snapping?

chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net · 3 pts · 2y

I gave it a few tries before, but I must be doing it incorrectly or in a less than ideal fashion, as the effect never seem to last more than a couple of seconds for me.

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 17 pts · 2y

They'd have to actually figure out what causes it to begin with, first. They can look at 100 people that were around loud noises that damage ears and often cause tinnitus, but couldn't tell you why 50 of those people would have ringing, while the other 50 don't. Let alone the people who have it without being around damaging noise. Or how I went deaf in one ear from nerve damage but have no ringing, even though most people who go deaf from nerve damage do have ringing.

b3an@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y (7 replies)

As I lay here listening to the ringing in both my ears… I sure damn hope so.

intensely_human@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y (6 replies)

Well don’t listen to it damn

b3an@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Sometimes I can kinda tune it out briefly. But it never goes away. I never get true peace.

intensely_human@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y (4 replies)

You need to cultivate love for it. Make friends with it.

Your brain will amplify any perception you regard as a threat. Your hate and fear is feeding it.

b3an@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Who said I have hate and fear 😂😂

intensely_human@lemm.ee · -1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

The fact that you can only tune it out briefly.

I notice mine roughly once every six months, and it doesn’t reduce my peace at all when it happens.

EddoWagt@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 2y

Well his might be a lot louder and a different tone

b3an@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

So everyone experiences it exactly like you? Come on dude. Ever heard of chronic tinnitus? And what you have sounds like occasional ear ringing. Not everyone is just like you.

intensely_human@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 2y

I followed my doctor’s advice and decided not to freak out about my tinnitus, and it doesn’t bother me at all.

ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 2y

This was my very first thought and question too. I’m so hoping it does.

time_fo_that@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

IIRC there's a few novel treatments (one using electro simulation of the tongue) and some new studies on the cause of tinnitus (auditory nerve overcompensating) that may lead us towards a cure.

Would have to do some digging to find those sources though.

Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz · 17 pts · 2y (10 replies)

I remember reading before how getting your hearing repaired through surgery (when possible) can get you ostracized from deaf communities. Some consider their deafness to be part of their identity, and regaining your hearing can be treated as sacrificing your identity/heritage.

moon@lemmy.cafe · 18 pts · 2y

Lol I'll trade the ability to hear for the cost some judgemental deaf people jealous of me. What are they gonna do, sign language at me angrily?

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 2y

so like i have autism (and probably adhd) and i get their sentiment, but fucking hell i'm not gonna say no to getting rid of the overstimulation and autistic breakdowns..

There's a difference between a function variation and a disability, and being deaf is absolutely a fucking disability as it's pretty nice to be able to hear oncoming trains and avoid being turned into a red mist.

also hey how about instead of being gatekeepers, they teach other people to sign? i'd sure like to have sign as a fallback for when my autistic brain decides speaking isn't happening today. Or, you know, when you're far away from someone and don't want to shout at the top of your lungs..

intensely_human@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y

This is what you get when you let people talk you into identity politics.

Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Skill issue. They base their identity on something deficient.

moon@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 2y

Hey maybe we should hear them out for a second. Oh wait...

Dagwood222@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-deaf-people-turn-down-cochlear-implants-2016-12

alphacyberranger@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

What ?

Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 2y

Here's an article talking about it

Quote:

The controversy is sometimes difficult for hearing people to understand. Hearing people often assume that Deaf people would naturally want to take advantage of any method that could lead them to become part of the hearing world — especially cochlear implants, the most advanced hearing technology we have. In reality, that assumption is far from true. To members of Deaf culture, American Sign Language is a cultural cornerstone. Because Deaf children who receive cochlear implants at a young age will likely be educated in the oralist method, they are less likely to learn ASL during their early years, which are the most critical years of language acquisition. For some Deaf parents, that would result in a child who speaks a different language than they do.

The article covers a lot more than that, so I recommend reading it to get the full picture.

Tenkard@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y

Movie "The sound of Metal" talks about this

x4740N@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Thats fucked, why would someone think a life altering disadvantage being part of someone's identity be a good thing

If people can find ways to make their lives better then they shouldn't be ostracised for it

thantik@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y (7 replies)

I cannot fucking wait for hearing loss to be something we completely, 100% tackle. I want to listen to LOUD ass music, ALL DAY, EVERY DAY, but if I do, I'll lose the ability to hear it.

So I'm currently trying to figure out if this product that straps bass-speakers to your chest might help my obsession. :D

rigatti@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y (2 replies)

You might be forgetting that as you lose your hearing, you just get to listen to music LOUDER and LOUDER.

thantik@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

eeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ^EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

bitchkat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

And the TV too!

shasta@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I feel like a device like that may have the potential to interfere with the rhythm of your heart

thantik@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Fuck it give me a new heart too.

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 2y

i want my heart to make mechanical piston noises

RavindraNemandi@ttrpg.network · 1 pts · 2y

That seems like a wild assumption to make. The heart beat is regulated by electric pulses, i dont see why a thumping bass would have any effect on it

Gemini24601@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Just wait until he hears AC/DC for the first time

intensely_human@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

zzzzzzzzzzzzzt