Lucas Atlerstine is 24 years old, Buenus lives in Aires And study Training Anthologic, he is calling “Training Life ”, after completing computer engineering. The interest of basketball during his youth, today’s courts have switched to a very wide land: admission and choice. From his Instagram account (from his Instagram account (@Iphoacusico)Ovarian Su Badcast ‘Sorto but not mute’ My armor CashachiaLucas becomes a personal acceptance process of his hearing loss. In this conversation, he shares his main journey, his work, and the dreams for the future.
At the age of 15, Lucas clearly remembers the moment when his hearing loss began. Lived from total denial: He did not talk to anyone about the matter, he tried to hide his help, and continued his life as if nothing had happened. “There were moments of frustration and anger. Disability“So the goal that comes with his Instagram account:” hearing and joy. “
Patcast had a clear inspiration that the podcast was ‘deaf but not mute’: many people wrote to him with questions he could not answer. Lucas understood that “Add professional voices” to personal storyTo provide their social tools with the support of experts. So, the first chapters told their history, but soon they began to add interviews with doctors, audiologyists and psychologists. “I am a bridge between personal and professional,” He explains the importance of showing different realities of hearing loss.
In their networks and botcast, Lucas Try to see all possible optionsWithout imposing a view. “Let me show you. Everyone chooses the best for their life,” he says. He admits that the bodgast form leads to more attention to oral communications, which restricts the presence of sign language users, but emphasizes that their goal is to compensate for the diversity of experience.
Except for some isolated humor, Lucas was not affected by school bullying, and his close friends always treated him naturally. However, He admits that he tried to “see the other way” from 15 to 20Avoid talking about the matter even at home. Although his environment was respected, he understood that over time he would have worked more emotional support and visible notes. “Listen to help,” he reflects.
The memory of the cockleer implant is full of nuances. First, he agrees, it is “disappointing”: the lower quality of the sound And requires a lot of changes. But every day it brought a new invention, which means the crisis of the leaves in the fall or the ice in a mirror. “It was like learning again to hear,” he says excitedly. Today, celebrate every little improvement.
In your digital community, the answer is great. Lucas receives messages loaded with thanks, questions, relief and joys. “They tell me that a marathon ran with the AIDS they ask, or after a long time, they went out again,” he says. Two stories specifically refer to him: a young woman who lost the hearing after a family discussion, and a young Mexican, passed away from cancer, lost her audition for chemotherapy and fell into deep loneliness. “He told me that I could do that I could do more cancer than deafness”The reminders moved.
The Veda is one of its shelters. Lucas maintains a private blog, where he turns close reflections on networks. “When I speak, I do it for another; when I write, I do this for me,” he explains. “I write how to think loudly, I am a very philosopher, become more constructive”.
Regarding access to Argentina, the diagnosis is clear: “We have a good law Disability It guarantees free treatmentsBut access to public places is almost zero. “The lack of magnetic loops and the shortage of translators in hospitals is pending.
Gasakuzia, his volunteer, was born to respond to loneliness, which many people with hearing losses feel. This program is trying to create a community and empower the passengers on this path. Lucas dreams of a big house full of activities: “You can take a place where you can learn a language, take theater classes, create friends and find out that you are not alone.” The slogan briefly says: “Changing the Loss of hearing”.
There is light at the end of the tunnel. Be interested in
For those who have now received the diagnosis, Lucas sends them a message to be loaded with confidence: “There is light at the end of the tunnel. Be interested, ask, learn. Take the decisions with confidence”. He concludes: “If you do it from love, if you or your child think about the best, it is the best North.”
