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What are your favorite apps for hearing loss or tools you use?
Hearing Loss | Last Active: Mar 21, 2021 | Replies (153)Comment receiving replies
Why not be visible? It's definitely to our advantage. I've found that it really helps to say that you have a hearing problem at the outset. Sure, some people will look in other directions (to spoil speech reading) or mumble regardless, but many will make a point of facing you while speaking, which is a huge help. Much better to be up front about hearing loss than trying to keep it a secret. Besides, when you mis-hear something and respond in an unexpected way, they'll think you're stupid instead of that you didn't hear correctly.
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I know of a woman in her 60's-70's who wears hearing aids. Her hearing deterioration is obvious to her friend who tells me about her. The person with hearing loss is adamant about not exploring the possibility of a CI which she very likely would be a candidate for, for reasons of vanity!
Good words. I put advocacy as smartness and recognize people who display their advocacy in helping themselves, and thank anyone who helps me when I ask for help because of my hearing challenges
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Exactly. When I learned to go visible with my hearing loss 35 years ago, it helped people help me. It helped me to have them know that I was helping myself. Still, denial is marketed every day by advertisements for hearing aids. And many buy into it.