[Kelly G.]

As someone who is now profoundly deaf and has been hard of hearing from birth, I can only answer this from my own perspective. I grew up using speech – reading and speaking. When I would try to think thoughts to myself, I often wound up speaking out loud (much to my sister’s amusement). When dreaming, I have always just “known” – as if it were ESP – the thoughts being transmitted. I was moderately hard of hearing for seven years, but serverely hard of hearing in my early years, and did not get a hearing aid till age 5 1/2. I’ve been using signs for about 10 years. I often find myself doing a combination of signing/mouthing to rememember things or to think things through. However, my dreams still tend to be of the “ESP” thing. On AOL there are deaf chats, and this has come up; I was surpised to learn a lot of other deaf people have this ESP dream experience.

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Name : Kelly G., Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Lesbian, Disability : Deaf, with bone growth disorder, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Pagan, City : Laurel, State : MD, Country : United States, Occupation : Librarian, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, 

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