To ask people to have more patience with the hearing impaired

[Silkyanduna]

Aibu yo ask people to be more patience with the hearing impaired. I’m profoundly deaf in one ear and have hearing loss in the other. I have always been like this so like baby that have lost there hearing don’t identity with the deaf community the sane way as if I had been born deaf. I don’t wear a hearing aid so it’s not obvious straight away that I’m hard of hearing but I do explain when I meet people. I have been getting more and more frustrated by people recently being rude when I don’t understand them first time,say forgot it and look past me and ask someone else like I don’t exist. Or when having a conversation and not quite grasped what has been said straight away being told oh it Disney matter - it obviously does matter or you wouldn’t have said.

I like to think I’m not stupid but feels like because you can’t akways understand things first time people treat you like you are.

A little patience goes a long way

Doesn’t not Disney

Yes this is so annoying and yes annoying when people say it doesn't matter. Now my daughter's even started it! Trying to explain to her

I get that it may be frustrating for people to repeat themselves etc. But wish people would think if I’m frustrated the you must be really really frustrated

It doesn’t help too when specsavers make adverts that poke fun at hearing impaired people.

Yes! I have hearing loss and don't wear aids because they don't help, so noone would know unless I told them, but the amount of people who just sigh, or mutter, or turn away when I ask them to repeat themselves is unbelievable. Like my disability is a burden on them!! I call these people arseholes.

Think where I’m reasonably young (26) people don’t expect. I think it is hard for people to understand what it’s like to have a hearing loss and especially how hard it is to come to terms and deal with a manage if you were once able to hear properly. Say oh it doesn’t matter etc is really isolating and I’m not sure other people realise this when they say it doesn’t matter.