anyone else not like wearing HA in public?

As a child, I was embarrassed about them but as I learned to embrace my deafness and love myself for who I am, I no longer think about my HAs and whether people see them or not.
 
LuciaDisturbed said:
I know it's not a HA but still the same concept. I have a CI and I don't mind wearing it in public. I'm not embarrassed of my deafness and I am not embarrassed about having a CI either. Sometimes I will flaunt it by wearing stickers on them. Right now my CI has a hot pink glitter skull on the coil, which I think is cute.
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:D Awesome, Lucia! I think those skulls decorations are cute.

I have one BTE HA, but can't use it now since my vertigo attacks took away my residual hearing. The ear I wear the HA has gone completely deaf recently. I'm not sure if the hearing will come back. If not, no big deal.

I got bullied at one point when I was growing up. It was not because of my HA, but because I was different. Even hearing kids get bullied. Yes, it's very unfortunate that you got bullied as a child. It is traumatic.

There are people who are rude or ignorant in the way they treat HOH/Deaf people. Believe me, I've had more than my share of those people. I've had a few people actually yell at me so I can understand them, which is pretty painful for me visually. Hehe. They didn't realize that yelling only distorts their speech in terms of sounds and lip-reading.
 
I wear my HAs all the time, I love hearing things too much to part with them. However, I keep my hair covering my ears, and I think the last time I went out with my ears uncovered was in Grade 3 when I got a really short hair cut, boy-style (it was because I hadn't had my hearing aids in when the hairdresser and my mom asked me if I wanted my hair cut really short. I couldn't hear them properly, so it ended up getting cut short. There's a year I'd like back). I don't even really put my hair up at home either, because if I did it now, even my family would look at me weird ("Huh, she's never done THAT with her hair before.") But if it's really hot and my scalp is all sweaty, then I'll put it up to air out my neck, to heck with what my family thinks. Still stays down outside in the hot sweaty air.

Plus, my face just isn't the right shape to be properly framed by a ponytail or whatever. Too fat, lol
 
Love wearing my hearing aid in public, except when I have to swim. LOL Bummer.
 
I don't, much at all. They don't offer me much benefit. My hearing aids actually just seem to friggin amplify every HIGH pitch sound there is (without them I hear all low pitch-which I prefer), and within 4 hours of wearing them, I have the worst head ache and feel like I may as well have ---i Dunno--- had someone screaming in my ears for an hour to the point my brain wants to close down for the next 12 hours (thus headaches put me to sleep; and this is really teh only reason I ever get a headache). SOOOO, i don't see the point in wearing it if there's no one I really need to focus 1000x hard to understand. They don't help me understand strangers anyway.
 
Firebrand said:
:D Awesome, Lucia! I think those skulls decorations are cute.

I have one BTE HA, but can't use it now since my vertigo attacks took away my residual hearing. The ear I wear the HA has gone completely deaf recently. I'm not sure if the hearing will come back. If not, no big deal.

I got bullied at one point when I was growing up. It was not because of my HA, but because I was different. Even hearing kids get bullied. Yes, it's very unfortunate that you got bullied as a child. It is traumatic.

There are people who are rude or ignorant in the way they treat HOH/Deaf people. Believe me, I've had more than my share of those people. I've had a few people actually yell at me so I can understand them, which is pretty painful for me visually. Hehe. They didn't realize that yelling only distorts their speech in terms of sounds and lip-reading.
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I was also bullied back in elementary and middle school. Students had no idea how to deal with me so they just treated me like snot. I remember a time in high school I was wearing the FM Trainer, which apparently, if you don't know what exactly it is, also looks like a tape player with headphones. and a teacher yelled at me to take it off and there, I had to explain it. Rude.

Oh ya, also, almost every other time I'm at a store, when I get to the check out lane, some of the clerks always ask you questions, but since I can't tell/don't hear 'em/don't know what they even said, I just smile, and then they give me this really evil/mean look til I leave. I don't even bother to tell them it's b/c I have a hearing loss.. b/c then they just give you the pitiful "im so sorry" look...and it's lame.

I certainly hope cochlear's will be more well noticed by the general population that when people see it on me, they won't be rude about it.
 
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