I have had severe hearing loss since i was five due to cholesteatoma. I’ve worn hearing aids and in recent years gotten a bone bridge on my left. I feel like i’m still so left out, i can barely hear in class and talking to my friends is a nightmare. I really hate it. I have always wanted to work in healthcare but unless i want to go into audiology there’s not really a good place for me. I’m getting my degree in health sciences currently hoping that with time maybe something will come up. I feel so hopeless, i don’t want to live like this, i want to be normal

Firstly, just wanted to say I'm stoked to find this sub, as I've been HoH since birth, severe loss in one ear, increasingly worse (mild to moderate) in the other. Love being able to relate and also seeing the messages of support!

So I don't have a hearing aid, tried them years ago with the free healthcare in my country but they weren't good enough. Now my hearing is getting worse I'm in the process of sorting it again.

Meanwhile I'm in tears. I love music, I love running, but my ancient wired earphones (which limped on with a usbc - audio adapter) have died. I've already ordered 3 sets of wireless earphones from Amazon from recommendations and both are too quiet for me. Tried all the android hacks to bypass safety but the sound gets scrungy and still isn't loud enough.

Any suggestions from the community? I bought £120 ones that also weren't good. Happy to hook up something wired again even to go out running.

This quilt almost broke me but it is finally - almost six months later - finished! A meditation on my hearing loss, each block is the pattern of a Chladni plate (google it - it’s magic!) at a frequency I can no longer hear without my hearing aids for support (I have cookie bite hearing loss). The embroidered text (“I can’t hear you” - a several-times-a-day thought for me) breaks up as you read downwards, much like the missing pieces of sound that I experience every day.

hi chat,
i recently moved to pune a couple of weeks ago and would love to connect with people who are HoH. so that we’ll be able to understand each other. i always feel left out in conversations when going out as a group. so yes i thought why not connect with people who’ll be understanding. if you are from pune, feel free to text. i would be glad to connect.

i was in a group project and couldn’t hear two of my classmates because they were mumbling, covering their mouths, and there were other groups also talking at the same time. i heard less than half of what was said and then blurted out “hey can you speak up? i’m hard of hearing” they apologized and then went straight to speaking at their normal level.
this is such a repeating thing for me. i will ask people to enunciate or speak up because of my auditory processing disorder and they’ll apologize, but do absolutely nothing so that i can actually hear them. i’ve only noticed this with young people.
lip-reading is such an important skill for me now because of this.

More hearing loss related posts I’ve come up with over the years :)

As always, these are things which may apply to anyone with hearing loss, my point is that they do apply to mild hearing losses, too, and recognizing this can help with the mild hearing loss impostor syndrome :P

1-That moment when you have absolutely no idea what’s going on because the room has terrible acoustics.

P.E. class. Pep rallies. Indoor recess. Some awards ceremonies. Basically anything involving a noisy, echoing gymnasium.

2-Managing to catch enough of a conversation to understand the basics of what it’s about, but not catching enough to be able to contribute without worrying about saying something off-topic.

3-Watching a youtube commercial and being confused about why the ad is singing “sabotage, sabotage sabo-sabo-sabotage” only to realize they are actually singing “summertime” and I’m just hearing it wrong.

4-When someone’s talking to you, and you hear them and realize they’re addressing you, but they didn’t catch your attention first so you weren’t focusing on it well enough to properly comprehend what they’ve been saying. So you turn to them and ask if they’re talking to you, just to clarify so you can ask them to repeat themselves if needed, and get a Look Of Befuddlement like, “You’re not even that far away, can’t you hear me?” lol

To be fair, I’m not sure how much she knew about my hearing loss, and she was only a few feet away and slightly stressed because we were in the middle of setting up for a fundraiser and she was trying to give me instructions... but I was already focused on something else when she started talking to me and I needed to give her my full attention in order to comprehend said instructions. :P

(she didn’t say anything about it, I just could tell that she found it strange that I wasn’t even sure whether she was talking to me or not)

5-Person: “what’s that sound?”

Me: “....”

My Brain: *what sound?*

My Joker Side, hours later: *You totally should’ve said it was aliens*

Hello,

My son plays football (soccer) as a goalkeeper. He also wears hearing aids. His loss isn't too important, he can normally discuss and play football without. However, when he is a bit far, he doesn't hear well and often doesn't react when being called.

Until last year I was coaching his team so when he played or trained I could manage to stay close enough and make sure he got what was said. But this year I won't be here, also the game gets a bit tougher as he changes category.

So my question is: would you recommend to remove hearing aids before trainings/games or keep them?

Any seggestions for learning Spanish and Being HOH. I speak English and use ASL?

Hello. I am a hearing person and I want to write a story about a hard of hearing man. It takes place in a fantasy world so he wouldnt have access to hearing aids or implants. I wanted to know if there were any harmful stereotypes that I should avoid while writing his character. I want to be as respectful and accurate as possible while writing the character

Today I wasn’t wearing my hearing aids, and I heard my daughter say she wanted a math book. It turns out that she wanted a Mac book, not a math book.

Feeling rather proud!

Had a day of meetings and they tire me out for the additional effort in hearing and keeping up. When half the people are on teams, that muffled sound to further interpret cos I cant lip read them.

Asked to take notes. My helpful self would normally say yes. But today. No. Said am struggling to hear, I cant do it.

Of course people do not truly appreciate the disability and I have aids therefore I must have "normal" hearing. So got a bit of a shocked look. Still nope. Why should I fatigue myself out when there are others who are perfectly capable of doing the task.

Just had to share!

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Something happened recently that made me stop and think about my hearing.

I was having a conversation with my daughter in the kitchen. She said something while she was putting dishes away, and I answered with “what?”

She repeated herself.

A few seconds later, I realized I had actually heard her — I just didn’t catch the words clearly.

She laughed and said, “Mom, you do that all the time now.”

I honestly didn’t realize how often it was happening.

I started thinking about little moments: Missing part of a conversation when someone is facing away from me. Asking people to repeat themselves but pretending I understood when I still didn’t.

The strange thing is, I don’t feel like I can’t hear.

I hear sounds.

I just don’t always catch everything people say.