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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 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.
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I have been hard of hearing since I was 4 years old. Most intelligent people have no problem when you inform others that you have a hearing loss. I moved into a nice neighborhood 58 years ago. I told my neighbors I was hard of hearing and immediately some classified me as dumb. These folks are gone but they were ignorant at that time. I graduated from The Ohio State University and work for the Ohio Department of Agriculture, Consumer Analytical Laboratory for 35 years as a microbiologist.
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That is great she is owning it. I never had hearing aids growing up. My mom also had hearing loss and did not have hearing aids so if anyone was to get them first it would have been her. It was a money thing at the time. So I struggled and of course by middle school I was so self conscious of not being able to hear. I really wanted hearing aids.