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Hawktober Day 3: Hearing aids
"Whatcha working on Clint?"
"My hearing aids."
"Really? Because it likes you're just covering them in nail polish."
Clint paused. Tilted his head up. "They weren't the color I asked for."
Bucky grinned. "You asked for glitter purple?"
"No," Clint scoffed. He blew over the tops of his aids to help them dry. "Nat didn't have a plain purple polish."
Gonna tell y’all what I can hear now that I got my hearing aids
Neil with bruises - but only from Andrew’s mouth and exy racquets ❤️
Apparently,
Whispering "I know you're dying. It's okay." To one self while carving a pumpkin is unnerving and creepy to those around you.
It's not my fault my hearing aid was beeping continuously in my ear, practically yelling it's dying
So I'm finally wearing my hearing aids so here is a running list of things I forgot made noise.
Brushing my hair
Light bulbs
Fabric
The fridge
The house
Leaves
Outside
Bread
Cabinet doors opening/closing
The toaster as it toasts
*spreading butter on bread*
Dishes being set on tables/counters
Fans are a LOT louder than I remember them being
I cannot stress this enough, if you are sad go listen to toast and how it interacts with EVERYTHING 18/10 I love it
How are people getting sparkly moulds for their hearing aids?! Mine have always been clear :(
I want to make charms and shit for my hearing aids but i have no idea what I'm supposed to do and I don't want to accidentaly damage my aids since they're not cheap and I need them. Does anyone know how to make this sort of stuff?
Hearing and History
12th April 2023
So, I recently found out that my level of hearing is a lot lower than I thought it was and probably always has been.
What does this mean? Basically I probably would've benefited from hearing aids and learning sign language as a child rather than relying on self-taught lip-reading, guesswork, and asking people to repeat themselves/be patient.
Let me tell you, people are not always good at being patient.
I have very mixed feelings about this. Listening is very tiring, and I have always said this! I couldn't do mental maths questions because they were on a tape recording. Ditto language listening and oral exams, which I kept failing at school. French was nearly impossible for me because I cannot hear the words or make sense of the month movements. Thank gd for Spanish!
I didn't have a hearing test until I was in secondary school. That policy has changed now in the NHS so hearing loss is picked up very soon after birth. Basically, there were a bunch of points in my life when someone could have intervened to give me the tools to navigate the world rather than just let me figure it out.
I am not part of the Deaf community. I don't know anybody my age who is hard of hearing or deaf. My family thought it was 'normal' because my mum, her sister, and my grandad all have hearing loss. I was teased for being deaf while simultaneously nobody taking the implications of my deafness seriously. It was a lose-lose situation. Essentially, it wasn't that I wasn't deaf enough, it was that it didn't effect me obviously enough for anyone to do anything.
Now I have hearing aids, I can hear music, I can hear lyrics. I can hear (although not focus on) multiple conversations. Birds are insanely fucking loud. Projectors and air-conditioning drive me up the wall. My tinnitus is definitely worse, but that may also be a side effect of long covid (apparently that's a thing). It's a wild experience that I'm still getting used to, a year later.
I would still love to learn sign language. But now's not a great time: I'm tired, working and studying full-time, recovering from covid, and generally have shit going on. British Sign Language lessons are expensive in person, but learning online is something I'd rather avoid as I can't concentrate easily. This means more travel, more money, more time, more energy. This means I have to wait.
I wish I could've had the chance to learn when I was first diagnosed.
TLDR; just because you can work to the point of exhaustion to fit the needs of the world, doesn't mean you should have to! You deserve accommodations. The world needs to bend so that people don't break.