The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.
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I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.
Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.
I tell people that if I'm ignoring them, chances are I may not have heard them. I depend on hearing aids, but I've not found it a problem. I'm visually very aware!
When people have hearing loss, I think they often take that burden and pass it on to their friends and family, and we make them scream and yell at us so we can hear! But I think it's better to take responsibility and wear hearing aids!
People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.
In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.
I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss.
There are two worlds: the deaf world and the hearing world. There are some people in the deaf community that feel that hearing people look down on us.
The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.
The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.
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