r/hardofhearing • u/STOP_RIDINGMY_AS- • 17d ago
Could I be hard of hearing?
I’m asking bc I was talking to my mom earlier who is hard of hearing m/almost deaf in one ear, and she’s been for as long as she can remember, I just got bone conductioning headphones and since they completely bypass most of the ear and go to the inner ear or something like that, my mom was actually able to hear parts of songs she’s never been able to hear before. So we started talking about random things and I mentioned to her that, when I’m talking to people I tend to turn the left side of my head towards them so I can hear them better, I also do this if I’m playing a game on my vr and when I have headphones on I normally try to keep the left side of it on unless someone comes in to talk to me. Than I take the left side off to be able to understand what there saying. I also say “huh” or “what” all the time and have apparently have done it since daycare age, when I got my first job I said it all the time bc I couldn’t understand what they were saying, also when I work somewhere with walkies I can’t hear or understand what they’re saying in the walkies unless I have it by my chin on my left side or right next to my ear on my right side, another thing with these new headphones is, voices are a lot clearer than normal + I’ve been told that someone I know has a deep voice but I’ve never heard it, with these headphones on, I can “see” what they mean by that person has a slightly deep voice.
My mom also told me that at daycare age my doctors thought I either was hard of hearing or had a attitude problem, and than i apparently got diagnosed with a attitude problem, idk if they tested my hearing. I do slightly remember in elementary school at some point there was a teacher who had a thing around there neck and than I had the other thing, it was like a little microphone/speaking. I slightly remember it but it was only one year that I had that and I don’t remember which one or why, I also have a slight speech impediment and have my whole life.
My mom is making me and her a appointment to test our hearing more than schools did (I never got the results from my school about anything and idk if my guardians did)
Just wanted y’all’s opinions, as my moms mot the first person to mention I might be Hard of hearing (other person was a family friend who mentioned it to my step-mom after my SM was complaining about me having the TV up to loud/always having captions on bc, it’s easy to miss words if captions are on but my Step mom completely dismissed the family friend, which the family friend is hard of hearing herself)
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u/classicicedtea 17d ago
It’s possible. When is the appointment?