You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.
It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just that I've been losing my hearing for a long time! So it's actually very important for me because I'm actually hearing impaired and I simply want to hear better!
I have serious hearing loss. I'm challenged if I don't have my hearing aids in.
Hearing aids didn't cause any problem with my social life, my career, no problem at all, and I've been wearing them for a long time. As a matter of fact, once I became an entertainer and started working on television, I was probably the first performer to talk about hearing problems on the air.
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
I was born deaf. Sound never existed in my life, and this is completely normal to me.
In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.
I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.
I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.