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Ommitted,Ingored&Forgotten
As many of you know I am Hard of Hearing for those of you who don't know I am fifty percent Deaf. Categorised on the Hearing Loss spectrum as Moderate Severe. My left ear has forty-eight percent hearing and my right ear has sixty percent hearing. I am referred to as Hard of Hearing not Deaf because I still have enough hearing to communicate with the Hearing world. FYI people with normal hearing are referred to has "Hearing People" Deaf and we Hard of Hearing People tend to use it in a negitive, insulting way. Mostly when a Hearing Person does something to shake our heads thinking the person is a totally idiot or because a Hearing Person(s) did something to or did pissed us off. There are four types of Hearing Loss(I am just going to copy and paste the types and their definition because I really don't feel like typing them word for word). Conductive Hearing Loss:
Hearing loss caused by something that stops sounds from getting through the outer or middle ear. This type of hearing loss can often be treated with medicine or surgery. Sensorineural Hearing Loss:Hearing loss that occurs when there is a problem in the way the inner ear or hearing nerve works. Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder:Hearing loss that occurs when sound enters the ear normally, but because of damage to the inner ear or the hearing nerve, sound isn’t organized in a way that the brain can understand. And finally there is Mixed Hearing Loss:Hearing loss that includes both a conductive and a sensorineural hearing loss( which is what I have). For more information on Hearing Loss, you can go online. A great self-help group called HLAA or Hearing Loss Association of America has tone of information about about Hearing Loss including a National Convention that happens every year. I was apart of that group for awhile, but I talk about them later in the story. So now, that you have basic idea of hearing loss, you can now begin to understand where I am coming. You see, I was born with Hearing Loss, it wasn't something I delevoped overtime like most people nor did I get from ear infections, fluid build-up or catching some kind of illness. This is generally how young children get hearing loss (I had so many ear infections as a kid that I spent a good time of my Elementary school days being in bed with intense pain in both both ears). According to my knowledge or beilf (I haven't researched it throughly to know if it is indeed true or not, so I going on what I have, observed, heard and seen). It's rarer for someone to be born Hard of Hearing than Deaf, if that is not the case then thats where the ommition part comes. Generally most people only think that Deaf people can be born Deaf not Hard of Hearing, so when people meet a Deaf Person(s) they automatically assume and will believe that they were born Deaf. For me, I have a hard time getting people believing that I am Hard of Hearing in general let alone being born with it. Most people, think it's seniors who get hearing loss not kids. So when you wanna buy hearing aids with Batman or Spider-Man on it you have to make it yourself. There certain colors for hearing aids and earmolds that are made available only to children, leaving out adults. That has been a new trend because apparently more and more kids are getting hearing loss, but people like myself who now older but still born with hearing loss never got that chance. So we're left out from getting the colors we wanted as kid. It probably, maybe would've or could've help with the transition from wearing no hearing aids to wearing and to wanting to wear them. Being a adult under the age fifty-five is harder than it looks and needs to be. If your old and a considered to be elderly or senior people automatically assume your Hard of Hearing or tend to beilve it more. If your my age and or younger. People won't believe you and they'll asking all these questions because it's not possible for someone like me at my age to Hard of Hearing. So, if want to get technology or listening devices it will all catter to Seniors, heck there was even a time not so long only people on Medicare not Medicaid could get insurance to cover hearing aids or even a cochlear...
Hearing loss caused by something that stops sounds from getting through the outer or middle ear. This type of hearing loss can often be treated with medicine or surgery. Sensorineural Hearing Loss:Hearing loss that occurs when there is a problem in the way the inner ear or hearing nerve works. Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder:Hearing loss that occurs when sound enters the ear normally, but because of damage to the inner ear or the hearing nerve, sound isn’t organized in a way that the brain can understand. And finally there is Mixed Hearing Loss:Hearing loss that includes both a conductive and a sensorineural hearing loss( which is what I have). For more information on Hearing Loss, you can go online. A great self-help group called HLAA or Hearing Loss Association of America has tone of information about about Hearing Loss including a National Convention that happens every year. I was apart of that group for awhile, but I talk about them later in the story. So now, that you have basic idea of hearing loss, you can now begin to understand where I am coming. You see, I was born with Hearing Loss, it wasn't something I delevoped overtime like most people nor did I get from ear infections, fluid build-up or catching some kind of illness. This is generally how young children get hearing loss (I had so many ear infections as a kid that I spent a good time of my Elementary school days being in bed with intense pain in both both ears). According to my knowledge or beilf (I haven't researched it throughly to know if it is indeed true or not, so I going on what I have, observed, heard and seen). It's rarer for someone to be born Hard of Hearing than Deaf, if that is not the case then thats where the ommition part comes. Generally most people only think that Deaf people can be born Deaf not Hard of Hearing, so when people meet a Deaf Person(s) they automatically assume and will believe that they were born Deaf. For me, I have a hard time getting people believing that I am Hard of Hearing in general let alone being born with it. Most people, think it's seniors who get hearing loss not kids. So when you wanna buy hearing aids with Batman or Spider-Man on it you have to make it yourself. There certain colors for hearing aids and earmolds that are made available only to children, leaving out adults. That has been a new trend because apparently more and more kids are getting hearing loss, but people like myself who now older but still born with hearing loss never got that chance. So we're left out from getting the colors we wanted as kid. It probably, maybe would've or could've help with the transition from wearing no hearing aids to wearing and to wanting to wear them. Being a adult under the age fifty-five is harder than it looks and needs to be. If your old and a considered to be elderly or senior people automatically assume your Hard of Hearing or tend to beilve it more. If your my age and or younger. People won't believe you and they'll asking all these questions because it's not possible for someone like me at my age to Hard of Hearing. So, if want to get technology or listening devices it will all catter to Seniors, heck there was even a time not so long only people on Medicare not Medicaid could get insurance to cover hearing aids or even a cochlear...
