I have suffered from hearing loss all my life. I used to cover my aides with my hair, but then realized that people needed to see my aides because even with them turned up high I can sometimes miss what's being said, and if they can see the aides then they don't just write me off as ignoring them.
Good on you for getting through it all in tact, whole and yourself.
I'm completely deaf in my right ear, and no hearing aid will fix that. While I can hear out of my left ear, I cannot tell where sound is coming from. So kids used to run around calling my name, so I would turn around in circles trying to find who was calling for me all the while listening to them laughing. Other, worse things also happened, but that was the most common.
Some of this - the childhood bullying in particular - mirrors the experiences a good friend of mine who uses hearing aids had. Unfortunately it's stuck with him even now, the feelings of shame and such. I wish he'd been able to overcome the bullying the way it sounds like you did. He'd been so ashamed in school that he refused to use his hearing aids, so he missed out on a lot in such significant years of his life.
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Good on you for getting through it all in tact, whole and yourself.
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What a wonderful defining moment.
Other people's perceptions of the things that help you be and experience are their problem-- not yours. So, nuts to them!
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I'm completely deaf in my right ear, and no hearing aid will fix that. While I can hear out of my left ear, I cannot tell where sound is coming from. So kids used to run around calling my name, so I would turn around in circles trying to find who was calling for me all the while listening to them laughing. Other, worse things also happened, but that was the most common.
Good for you for overcoming the bullies.
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