Armedlord: I was kinda joking with that last bit there, but I'll add a bit, since you asked.
I have screwed-up arthritic knees, and I'm only age 23. I'm pretty sure it's not limited to my knees, either - hip joints, wrists, shoulders, and finger joints are starting to show bad signs.
My grandmother lives with me and is nearly deaf. She's not willing to content herself with faint sounds and closed captioning, though, so she usually turns the volume of her TV up so loud that I can hear it at above-normal volume from three rooms away - through two walls and a door.
This has two negative effects on me:
1. She does this no matter what time of day or night it is, and it keeps me up at night. I have to get my eight hours in, or my narcolepsy is hard to manage; yet, she insists on leaving her damn TV on when I have to be awake by 7AM.
2. It is already damaging my hearing. I used to have hearing sharp enough that I could echolocate when underwater. Now I keep having to ask people to speak up. It wouldn't be so hard to accept if it weren't for the fact that I know exactly who and what is to blame for this.
I could see myself snapping someday, I really could. People just seem unusually interested in pissing me off lately, most especially my immediate family.
Combine all of this with various severe childhood and adolescent trauma, and a persistent clinical depression, and it's a wonder that I'm the moderately well-adjusted individual that I am. <_< :sisi:
Mighty Bob: Heh. I was joking around with the "lightweights" comment. I can sympathize with eye problems, though.
I have screwed-up arthritic knees, and I'm only age 23. I'm pretty sure it's not limited to my knees, either - hip joints, wrists, shoulders, and finger joints are starting to show bad signs.
My grandmother lives with me and is nearly deaf. She's not willing to content herself with faint sounds and closed captioning, though, so she usually turns the volume of her TV up so loud that I can hear it at above-normal volume from three rooms away - through two walls and a door.
This has two negative effects on me:
1. She does this no matter what time of day or night it is, and it keeps me up at night. I have to get my eight hours in, or my narcolepsy is hard to manage; yet, she insists on leaving her damn TV on when I have to be awake by 7AM.
2. It is already damaging my hearing. I used to have hearing sharp enough that I could echolocate when underwater. Now I keep having to ask people to speak up. It wouldn't be so hard to accept if it weren't for the fact that I know exactly who and what is to blame for this.
I could see myself snapping someday, I really could. People just seem unusually interested in pissing me off lately, most especially my immediate family.
Combine all of this with various severe childhood and adolescent trauma, and a persistent clinical depression, and it's a wonder that I'm the moderately well-adjusted individual that I am. <_< :sisi:
Mighty Bob: Heh. I was joking around with the "lightweights" comment. I can sympathize with eye problems, though.
