I’ve been so busy recently that I haven’t had time to write my daily updates – I miss it because it’s strangely therapeutic. I also love it when people leave comments on my blog, letting me know they’ve been in similar situations to the ones I’ve written about.
One of my recent favourites has been from Dee, on my Quackers post here. She let me know that she once vacuumed the driver footwell of her car with her head pressing against the car horn without realising and caused the whole neighbourhood to come dashing out and see what the ruckus was…
This made me chuckle lots, and I also realised that walking down the street with a clucking handbag is not the end of the world. Neither is being too busy to blog every now and again, but I just worry, that if I don’t, I will miss this wonderful interaction from people across the world.
It is amazing how through Deafinitely Girly, I’ve encountered so many new people. From Speak Up Librarian, who I actually met when she was in London on holiday to a guy who emailed me this week to ask if he could include my blog in his college essay. It always makes me realise, when I feel isolated or alone because I miss out on general group chitchat or long gossipy phone calls, that I’m really not. There is this whole world out there that I can communicate with daily through Deafinitely Girly, email and text.
I love being Deafinitely Girly because she’s helped me learn to love me – the real me. The me, who before I started to blog, would have a 6-monthly wobble about being deaf, accompanied by lots of feeling sorry for myself and sentences beginning with ‘If I wasn’t deaf…’
She was the girl that often used to say either out loud or in her mind, ‘I can’t do that because I’m deaf’ and quite often that was just an excuse really. And she was the girl that wasn’t quite sure of her worth as a person in relation to her disability.
When I look back at how I was pre-Deafinitely Girly, I barely recognise myself. I was a different person.
I have a lot to thank this pink-mad, girly, ditzy, and quite frankly a little bit bonkers alter ego for really, because she brought me back to life.
2 comments:
DG I have spoken to you alot, mostly through twitter (lysiesaccharine) and you have helped me so much, as you know I lost my hearing at 16, and its only now im dealing with it.... I still start sentences with ' If I was hearing' and it's through your blog that I sit and think.. and? im human... this is just another chapter. I have no one to talk to about this types of stuff, but I know there will be so many others who read your blog that think the same. We love ya :)
I've been amazed by the opportunities that have come my way since starting my blog too. It's been wonderful communicating with people around the world. Meeting you was a deafinite highlight of my 2010. I hope our paths will cross again but in the meantime we have our online connection.
Wishing you the best for the upcoming holidays and new year!
Sarah, Speak Up Librarian
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