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.
Hermine Willey