Has it really been almost a month since my last post?! Time flies.
Just thought I would mention a small CI moment. This won’t seem very impressive to most of you but thought it was kinda cool especially since I wasn’t actively listening.
Of course, charity and sherry are 2 entirely different words with different numbers of syllables.
At dinner, Dennis was talking about a dodgeball charity tournament and he was sim-comming (signing and speaking at the same time). I happened to look away for a second and missed that Dennis had signed “charity.” I did catch part of the word via lip-reading and listening.
I asked him “who?” I was confused because I thought I heard “Sherry” which didn’t match up with what we were talking about. Then Dennis repeated that he had said “charity.”
I am always mixing up the “SH” and “CH” sounds. So, to me…sherry sounds similar to charity. This is kind of an example of how sometimes I can identify certain sounds but I don’t always pick them all out. In this case I was able to pick out there was a “SH” or a “CH” sound and figured out there was a “R” in there somewhere. It’s a fill-in-the-blank game for my brain.
This is random….but no one ever told me that you can hear a person brushing their teeth from across the room…and it’s quite noisy.
Life Is About Creating Yourself 
WOW! This is a great example of differences between people for technology. I can hear with my aids on the phone, and pick up much more of conversation than I think you can—yet I can’t hear someone brush their teeth. I didn’t know it was noisy! (now I’m paranoid…kinda like eating around other ppl?)
You’re right about the differences between people for technology. Just so fascinating how that works and goes to show how unique each person really is…