user 118636
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Hi, everyone. I'm new to this kind of forum so please bear with me. I'm deaf. Naturally this meant that I had difficult time socially, especially once you consider that my family is a military family where we moved around all of the times. Even today, I still struggle with social skills and do not really try to make friends much.
For a while, I literally planned to sell off all of my possessions since I was close to homelessness and just invest into a touring bike setup so I could bike across country to find a quiet place to settle down and basically be a bachelor hermit.
So my life today is quite a contrast. I am married to a gorgeous wife. And I love her family. I am also trying to reconnect with my family too. So it is not as lonely as before. But I still struggles.
Professionally, I am stagnating. At least I feel like that. I got a double B.A. in Photography and Digital Media. But the teaching was so badly done that I am simply not confident in my ability as a photographer. People do praises my photography but because I could never get the harsh criticism that I am literally begging from these same people, I have to assume that these praises have little or no basis in my actual products and instead have the basis in the relationship with the photographer (like family or friend).
I am struggling to find people to make professional friends with, especially with my communication barrier stemming from my deafness. I need people that I can trust to be bluntly honest with me on my skills. I need people that I can learn from with various disciplines such as backpacking, camping, photography, and more. In fact, this is partially why I want to focus on nature photography. Less people (and legal headaches) to deal with. The people in the outdoor based community also seems to be extremely friendly and sociable based on my experience when I did some short hikes on the Appalachian Trail.
I do understand that some family and friends do not want to be put in a position of possibly offending me by over criticizing my works. So this is partially why I'm looking elsewhere for that criticism.
I am here to help alleviate some of that loneliness and to share my experience in hope that it will help other.
Thank you, SophiaGrace, for showing me this place.
EDIT - forgot to include my ASL, 29/M/DC
For a while, I literally planned to sell off all of my possessions since I was close to homelessness and just invest into a touring bike setup so I could bike across country to find a quiet place to settle down and basically be a bachelor hermit.
So my life today is quite a contrast. I am married to a gorgeous wife. And I love her family. I am also trying to reconnect with my family too. So it is not as lonely as before. But I still struggles.
Professionally, I am stagnating. At least I feel like that. I got a double B.A. in Photography and Digital Media. But the teaching was so badly done that I am simply not confident in my ability as a photographer. People do praises my photography but because I could never get the harsh criticism that I am literally begging from these same people, I have to assume that these praises have little or no basis in my actual products and instead have the basis in the relationship with the photographer (like family or friend).
I am struggling to find people to make professional friends with, especially with my communication barrier stemming from my deafness. I need people that I can trust to be bluntly honest with me on my skills. I need people that I can learn from with various disciplines such as backpacking, camping, photography, and more. In fact, this is partially why I want to focus on nature photography. Less people (and legal headaches) to deal with. The people in the outdoor based community also seems to be extremely friendly and sociable based on my experience when I did some short hikes on the Appalachian Trail.
I do understand that some family and friends do not want to be put in a position of possibly offending me by over criticizing my works. So this is partially why I'm looking elsewhere for that criticism.
I am here to help alleviate some of that loneliness and to share my experience in hope that it will help other.
Thank you, SophiaGrace, for showing me this place.
EDIT - forgot to include my ASL, 29/M/DC
