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Why do people refuse to get hearing help?
Hearing Loss | Last Active: Apr 6 10:27am | Replies (26)Comment receiving replies
I was actually born with hearing loss so it basically started when I was in elementary school. I was always failing the hearing tests the nurse gave and always got moved to the front of the class. It was embarrassing because I felt singled out. But I don’t try to hide it and was never in denial. It just made me feel different from everyone else at an age where I wanted to fit in.
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Feeling different can be very difficult. Did that feeling continue into your teenage years and adulthood?
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I hate to bring up my six year old granddaughter again but I feel I must once again.
She also was born with mild hearing loss and when she got fitted for hearing aids she was so excited she could hear better.
More importantly she owned them and rather than feeling like she didn’t fit in she told my daughter to pull her hair back the first day of kindergarten so everyone could see them.
Some of her classmates came home and told their parents they wanted hearing aids just like hers.
Someone asked her why she needed them and she answered that it is the same reason some people wear glasses. She wants to hear better and they want to see better.
I am almost 74 with severe to profound hearing loss. I don’t hide the fact I wear hearing aids in fact I mention it to people if I am in a noisy restaurant and having a hard time hearing them.
My point is rather than try to hide the fact you have hearing loss own it like myself and my six year old granddaughter.
Hopefully this helps someone out there.