I forgot my #hearingaids yesterday, in the morning rush. I was shocked to be reminded of how hard it is to function without them.
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If I am alone or with friends within short personal distance – I can survive. 🗣👩🦱 But to Work is almost impossible! Large spaces in offices absorb most of the speech frequencies. You can’t come up close to your work colleagues. Lip reading helps, but I need to switch on extra attention, and by the evening I have developed a headache.
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I did stories about it, and all of you said yes – “tell your colleagues”. I did say, but few people know what it means for them?
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So what it means – if I can’t hear – I struggle to listen and to digest information. I have to “catch up” in my head what I “might have heard” and make sense of all the logic and meaning of the conversation. This feels like my whole brain power is dedicated to “thinking”. ⠀
Hearing is so closely connected to Listening. It’s not the same. Listening is a social activity. You can choose to listen or not. Hearing happens at all times unless you are deaf. Healthy hearing leads to the ability to listen.
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We need hearing to be able to listen. When we can listen, we can talk, be social.
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It reminded me of the feeling of isolation and it was a voluntary exclusion of myself from the society and interaction was at the bare minimum.
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I made sure I got my aids today!
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Humans, value your ability to hear and listen!
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📷photo by @karlina_vitolina_photographer with no retouch (no time lol). gloves 🧤and beret are by @beluna.design, especially for my project.
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You can just about see the edge of the aid on the photo 🌈 I wear #unitron model called ”moxie kiss” yes lashes are mine –
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