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If you grow up as a schoolchild with hearing aids, you will have a very different view regarding visibility. You can't hear right, you (probably) speak funny, a
by burntwater 9y ago
If you grow up as a schoolchild with hearing aids, you will have a very different view regarding visibility. You can't hear right, you (probably) speak funny, and now you have this.... THING.. sticking out of your body, right at eye level, which is just ripe for other kids -- not even bullies, just other normal kids -- to tease and use as a differentiator when creating social groups.
- rhubarbcustard 9y agoKids can be evil and I got teased a bit too when I was at school. I've never experienced a negative reaction to my hearing aids as an adult though. Missing what someone has said has caused problems when they've maybe thought I was being rude and ignoring them or they said something and I answered with completely the wrong thing. So, I think as an adult not being able to always hear has caused reactions in people but not the visible hearing aids themselves.