Hi, my name is Lucas Adlerstein. I founded Casacusia. Today I'm going to tell you the story of the foundation and also mine.
Cómo nació Casacusia
2016 · At 15 I lost my hearing
I started drifting away from people. Going to a birthday or talking to someone I didn't know made me anxious. I quit basketball because I wasn't comfortable: I couldn't hear the coach or understand who and where was asking me for the ball. In high school I did group projects alone.
2020 · The false relief, then the fall
Lockdown took me away from people, and therefore from my hearing loss. The problem was when we went back to normal. It was really hard. I crashed emotionally. I found on Google an auditory implant that I thought could help me. It gave me back hope.
2021 · At 20 I got implanted and recovered my hearing
I got my life and my smile back. When I got implanted I couldn't find real personal experiences online, so I started sharing mine on social media.
Realizing I wasn't alone
Doctors began recommending my videos. One day I went viral. A rain of comments and messages turned into conversations. What connected us was loneliness and not knowing what to do. Some messages turned into a coffee with people losing their hearing, or with parents whose children were born deaf. I couldn't sustain one-to-one anymore, so I called people to a park. 20 came, then 38, 25, 69 people. Suddenly, in 2024, 473 people had passed through the meetups.
2025 · Why I founded Casacusia
At that time I was in my third year of Information Systems Engineering at UTN and worked as a programmer. When exams came or I was traveling, projects stopped. So I decided to found Casacusia as an engine of social projects that connects people with hearing loss and that doesn't depend only on me.
Today
People started joining and we created projects, areas, volunteering. We grew, reached cities and professionalized. Today, from one person we are +20 fixed volunteers and 60 rotating ones at events. And this is only its first year.
For many of us, disability is not the silence: it is the loneliness.
That's why Casacusia was born: to be the home of people with hearing loss, so no one feels alone.