Life without sound
I was diagnosed with hearing loss when I was three years old. I am completely deaf in my left ear and partially in my right. I didn’t realize how much of the world I was missing out on until I got hearing aids. According to my attached hearing test I was/am missing 75% of speech. My grades were horribly compromised, I struggled to hear my peers, teachers, and friends, and I couldn’t hear someone approaching me. Once I got my hearing aids my D’s turned to A’s, it wasn’t stressful to communicate with other people, I was more aware of my surroundings, and my lisp that had formed as an effect of my hearing loss-went away. I also learned that I was exerting a lot of energy just to hear. Something I shouldn’t even have to think about doing. In effect, my parent’s and myself noticed a change in my behavior because I wasn’t under this excess stress.
