I'd say the title pretty much covers it. I was left completely shell shocked yesterday afternoon after being publicly berated by a mother who was having trouble with their little son. We were in a cafe and the wee man obviously wasn't getting his own way, so he decided to scream the place down with bells on.

Because my hearing loss is at the treble end of the spectrum, this is what my aids amplify and enhance - and this child screaming went through my head like a power drill. I immediately reached up and pulled my aids out - and mum saw me do this. She got out of her chair, came over to me and began to have a right shot at me.

Apparently, I'm lucky I can turn my hearing off when I want to, and I should try spending a day in her shoes and see how I like dealing with her son. I can't possibly comment on how I would deal with him, but I did tell her to try wearing my hearing aids for an hour and see how fast she'd remove them. Two or three people applauded me and she flounced off without finishing her coffee.

It's not often someone pisses me off, but there's a limit, and she reached it.

Apologies for the vent.

Even with my hearing aids on full blast…

I have meneres disease and I'm extremely (severe hearing loss) hard of hearing in my L ear. I got this tattoo today because my L ear quit working 20 years ago.

From my son’s audiologist’s office. We’re a family of hereditary hearing loss. If only…

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.

Having hearing loss that will only get worse, but still expected to work even though I can't use the phone at all and jobs wouldn't hire me if they knew, but yet I wouldn't qualify for disability. I'm so tired of life being so unnecessarily difficult. It's really bad when you are "young" and people don't expect it.

i’ve also told her it’s rude to refuse to repeat yourself when talking to someone hard of hearing, and her reply was, “well i think it’s rude to make me have to repeat myself” because it’s her “pet peeve” to repeat herself. i just needed to rant to people who understand.

I try not to take things like this to heart but the original tweet is kind of insulting, if I listen to the tv at my own hearing abilities it literally shakes the whole house. Subtitles help me so much!

I have also posted this in a couple other subreddits.

I've waited YEARS for this. I've always wanted a hearing loss awareness tattoo, but never liked the common ones we see. So, I came up with this one, which a FANTASTIC artist brought to life.

Left side - black and white with empty riverbed, no animals, and bare trees to symbolize how the world is quiet and not alive (not dead, just not alive) to me without my HAs.

The hearing aid is from the first pair I ever got (at 7 yrs old). It is technically the left HA, but the image was flipped so the placement and symbolism worked on my right arm.

Right side - color with water in the river, birds in the sky, and leaves on the trees to symbolize how much sound I miss without my HAs. How the world "comes to life," so to speak.

I just need to emote. Fuck, it's just so hard to actually focus on doing yoga when I only hear every seventh word. When there's music, or the teacher moves around, or they speak quietly, it's just stressful. I know I have to find a way to be ok in this situation and find ways of adapting. But bleughhhhhhhhghgh I WISH I COULD HEAR WHAT THE FUCK SHE IS SAYING SO I CAN JUST FOCUS ON DOING THE RELAXING THING I CAME TO DO. Ffs.