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Hearing loss: How do you identify yourself to others?
Hearing Loss | Last Active: May 11, 2019 | Replies (77)Comment receiving replies
We don't SOMETIMES feel isolate d. We always are isolated in hearing settings. We never want to be a burden. So...IF u are someone a deafie has called "easy to lip-read" and u know something about the people u are with, try to be a bit of an advocate in the situation. Try to unobtrusively include the deafie. I know I would appreciate it. I also know some newly deafened people would be horribly mortified if anyone made a big deal like announcing " we have a hard of hearing person among us" blah blah...
So thank you, sincerely, for expressing your feelings but if u would try to help in some small way, you would be helping us and yourself, too.
Did I say this wrong? I usually do so if I offended someone, that's par for the course🙄
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Yep, no what you are saying. My brother who has an even greater hearing loss than me, has a great advocate in his wife. In social situations she will repeat parts of what others are saying more loudly when she can detect he isn't hearing it. She has perfected this so it blends in almost seamlessly and doesn't call attention or interrupt the conversation going on around them. Unfortunately, not everyone has someone with them to do this when these occasions arise.