Double-Zee

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speaks: Arabic

learns: English, Spanish

likes: reading, travel, cooking, health, creativity, sleep, friendship, relationships, culture, daily life, politics, history, movies, walking, community

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I share most of what I write here on Substack. Feel free to follow me there if you like what I write. :) Beyond deaf-inition https://beyonddeafinition.substack.com/

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The Daily Struggle

Every evening, I struggle with writing my daily post here. I don't have any new ideas or things to tell. It's the same daily routine. The only update is that I had the webinar yesterday. It went
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Jan 26 - 1 min. read

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What Do You Do When You Miss Someone?

What do you do when you miss someone? I miss my niece and nephew when I travel far from them due to work. I talk to them on my sister's phone but the internet sometimes sucks and after a few failed
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Jan 25 - 2 min. read

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Be There!

One of the haunted thoughts I have is that my depression would scare people away from me. They would slip away one by one until none of them would be by my side. I know no one likes to deal with
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Jan 24 - 1 min. read

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Hearing Loss Webinar

Thanks to Women Beyond Silence, I'm having the chance to talk about hearing loss in a webinar after tomorrow. It's going to be my first online presentation at all. I'm so excited about it and about
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Jan 23 - 1 min. read

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Graeme And Me

After having gone offline yesterday, I checked my phone this morning. I almost missed nothing. No messages or emails from friends or even family. I felt like I could just disappear and no one would
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Jan 22 - 2 min. read

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Hola de nuevo

Estaba offline ayer. Seguí leyendo el libro que empecé más de dos semanas. Mother To Mother/ Madre a Madre. Es de la escritora sudafricana Sindwie Magona. Lo terminé hoy por la mañana. Era muy
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Jan 22 - 1 min. read

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Going Offline

I'm going offline for the whole day tomorrow. I feel like I waste my time every day doing nothing. I'm not on social media anymore (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, X) but still the time slips away
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Jan 20 - 1 min. read

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Mi madre

Tengo que tomar decesiones sobre algunas cosas en mi vida. ¿Voy a cuidar a mi madre o no? Mi hermana puede cuidar a mi madre después de terminar su trabajo en la escuela. Yo podría cuidarla por las
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Jan 20 - 1 min. read

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The Way The World Ought To Be

In my post "To Zobayda", I wondered how different Iran would be if the 1953 coup hadn't occurred. The current authoritanian regime came to power after a series of Western intervention in the
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Jan 19 - 3 min. read

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When Darkness Spreads...

It's one of those nights when everything feels so heavy. My depression takes control and I don't know where to hide away. I wish I could sleep and never wake up again. Or to have all my memories
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Jan 18 - 1 min. read

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To Zobayda!

I sent a message to Zobayda a week ago on Telegram, checking on her right after I read about Iranian demonstrations. Due to the communication shutdown in Iran, I haven’t heard back from her yet. I
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Jan 17 - 1 min. read

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Asking For Your Opinions

I wrote this post below about my mother. Have you got the impression that she died? Thankfully, she's alive. I just meant I lost her due to dementia. Do you think the title is confusing and I should
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Jan 17 - 1 min. read

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SAD

A few days ago, I came across the term SAD, seasonal affective disorder. It's a kind of depression that some people experience during winter. SAD has the same symptoms like depression, plus some
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Jan 16 - 1 min. read

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Qué significa

¿Podrías ayudarme entender los fragmentos o palabras siguientes en bold, por favor? "Las reuniones, no digamos las manifestaciones, están prohibidas y en los últimos dos años hemos observado cómo se
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Jan 16 - 1 min. read

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Looking For Verbs

I was firmly holding a boat stair while someone was trying to forcefully make me let go of it. What's the verb for that action? I don't know how I can explain it better. they pull your hand away?
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Jan 15 - 1 min. read

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ZZ's Journey

ZZ wears many hats. She worked as a translator, a QA reviewer, a housekeeper, and a pet sitter (or: Her jobs varied between translation, QA, housekeeping and pet-sitting). She also volunteered on
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Jan 15 - 1 min. read

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Cómo Europa subdesarrolló a África

Leí un artículo muy, muy interesante sobre Walter Rodney y sus obras y luchas contra el colonialismo. Aquí son algunos párrafos de ello: "...Cómo Europa subdesarrolló a África se enfrenta a la
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Jan 15 - 1 min. read

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The Day I Lost My Mother

I can’t pinpoint precisely the day when everything with my mother had shifted. There’s no specific day when I can say that’s when I lost my mother. Maybe I can consider the day she was diagnosed with
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Jan 14 - 3 min. read

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Feeling Unwell

I'm feeling unwell. I was thinking of skipping the daily writing task on Journaly but I'm pushing myself to complete it now. My day started with going to the local market where I bought spinach,
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Jan 13 - 2 min. read

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Dolor de cabeza

Me duele la cabeza desde la mañana. ¡No sé por qué! Quizás porque no he dormido bien anoche. O quizás no he bebido suficiente agua. O quizás debido al mal oler de la gata. Tengo sinusitis y cuando
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Jan 13 - 1 min. read

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