Anyone ever just throw the HA out and be deaf?

I don't have any plm with aids except earmolds I feel like I want throw 'em out.
 
I am!! :giggle:... I did throw out HA during JR high School !
 
Wow, look at all the responses, thankyou all for taking the time to write about this. I think this is what I need ya know, to hear others stories that I can relate to and know that I am not alone. It also makes me wanna find a place for myself in the non-hearing world. I only wear my ha when I am around people who I want to hear, I am forever turning it up and down and off. I like the still quiet.

I am getting concerned though that I am gonna miss something, being a single Mom, I have a small dog who is my ears, but as he gets older he doesn't always wake me up or alert me to potential things I may want to know about. I think I should start investing in devices like vibrating alarm clocks (I just cound on my internal clock to wake myself fup and it works very well, ususally)smoke detecotrs with flashing lights or something. Last summer I had a man stalking me, he would enter my yard at night and leave me weird gifts, move things, watch me from my garage roof, finally the cops got him but I am concerned as spring is here again and I am in my yard gardening ALOT. HA does me no good either in this situation, have had people come up behind me yelling at me and I still don't know they are there until they tap me on the shoulder.....I am normally pretty perceptive but when I am gardening I seem to get lost in it. Any advice would be great.

You guys are fantastic, and give me hope, words cannot convey the thankyou I feel in my heart....hugs!
 
chris' mom said:
I wonder if this is why my son is always throwing his HAs or taking them out. I personally understand being overwelmed..Hell I'm hearing and there are days I wished I could hear all the noises..LOL Anyways I have people who tells me that I should make him wear them all the time b/c us hearing people don't have a choice we can't just turn off our hearing so he shouldn't be able to either. But in my opinion if I can communicate with him without him hearing me then it's okay for him not to wear them at home.
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It's OK if your son doesn't want to wear his HAs all the time, let him wear them when he needs to and don't mind if he wants to have a rest from them. Tell the people who say he should wear them all the time that hearing with HAs is not like normal hearing, everything is amplified, even the stuff you don't want to hear. Sometimes it gets really tiring and overwhelming, it's good to have a break from it sometimes.

When I was at school I had a teacher who kept on at me when I didn't wear my HA. It just made me resentful and I'd refuse to wear it even when I needed to. I used to think - 'what does he know about it anyway.'
 
I totally forgot what is like to wear HA! I have throw it away about 31 years ago! If I can live without it, then why not?

The reason why I threw out is because I never understood any sounds, it is like seeing everything in black and white and how can you discriminate colors if you see everything in black and white? Thus adding hearing aid won't add color to black and white but to brighten it up, helpful? Nope!
 
Ha ha. Interesting? yup! Helpful? Sure! a variety of shared experiences helps me to open up and not be so self-absorbed. Like me trying to explain to all the hearing in my life that turning it up all the way doesn't help me hear the words any better, just gets overstimulating and more chaotic. Happy trail diehardbiker, and thanks! Hugs!
 
Since I became deaf "over night" or right after the surgery, which the doctor actually "butchered" me....(long story)....I've never wore hearing aids.

I've heard a lot of complaints about them, but to be honest, if I could hear and understand people talking, I would wear it.

I've had 4 surgeries, and to this day I suffer from pain and drainage in both ears. At Mayo, they told me I could be a candidate for the CI....but would need more surgeries. My ears are not healthy at all. So why in the heck would I agree to more surgeries to get the CI with all the problems I'm enduring?

I guess the static and all the noise that people who wear aids is highly annoying!
 
Holy smokes, that sounds like an intense switch from hearing to not, my heart goes out to you. I guess there are both pros and cons to wearing HA's for me. If you ever would be so inclined to share I would like to hear your story some day. Yes the noise and static is annoying but so must be your pain and drainage. I am finding this thread so educational for me, thankyou very much for sharing. Hugs!
 
I am very tempted to chuck my hearing aids however I am in this hearing world and I can't just lipread. I need to hear the voice in order to lipread. Drat!
 
Giving you hugs and say hang there, is all i can do and say, I hated wearing mine too there were times i wanted to stomp on them!!! but managed 30 years with them.
 
I'm starting to wish, more and more often, that I was hard of hearing, or even deaf, but that's another issue entirely. Those days, though, I plug in my headphones as well as I can to keep all outside sound out, and crank up the volume until I forget that I can hear, and everything just turns into white noise.

And hearing isn't all that awesome either. As isolated as deafies feel from hearies, hearies isolate themselves from each other the same way they isolate from deafies. It's just the way people are now. And I really hate how people do that. In my school it's: whites stay away from blacks, blacks from mexicans, mexicans from whites, all cause they're different... we don't have any deaf kids in my school, but I notice the pattern of ignorance is the same.
 
Luving all the hugging go around!! Thanks overthepond for your input, it counts for so much.

shortmuse92, wanna or needa hug?
 
Moon-child said:
Luving all the hugging go around!! Thanks overthepond for your input, it counts for so much.

shortmuse92, wanna or needa hug?
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thanks i think i just might lol. that's part of the reason why i'm looking forward to college and becoming a terp though. i can't stand the stupid reasons people use to put up barriers between themselves and the rest of the world. but on the other hand, some people just SHOULD be isolated, but again, that's an entirely different story.
 
shortmuse92 said:
In my school it's: whites stay away from blacks, blacks from mexicans, mexicans from whites, all cause they're different... we don't have any deaf kids in my school, but I notice the pattern of ignorance is the same.
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This has been the case in most schools for years.

When I was in high school back in the day (mid 80s), students used to do the same thing. The only exception is where African-American students are concerned since we didn't have any during the entire 4 years I attended my suburban high school.

We did have a Deaf student in my high school. She was an excellent lipreader and used a terp in class.
 
i know exactly what it is like, my family are thoughtless as well as does many of my hearing freinds, even the ones who are professors in social science!!, i really know the harrowing hell it can be when you have this situation that throws isolation right on the shoulder and it gets heavier when social demands increase. all the while i want peace too, (I have severe tinnitus it is no joke) and yet i feel really hestiant to stomp on the HA too I too feel the same way as overthepond does.....what can i say? i feel november cypsy really worded it out good, those questions...and i wish there was a book written on this matter so we can explore these reasons and rebutts to challenge the 'all powering' hearies especially when they bother us with 'why arent you wearing our hearing aid? or 'im sorry you are deaf, but calm down, id explain to you later, etc etc' but again hmmm we have this forum right here just for this network...maybe we ought to have a 'support threads' to build up database of ideas and reasons for our alternative means of coping and dealing and tackling this unneeded suffering of isolation brought on about from deafness and tinnitus.
just an idea...
but yeah i feel unresolved on this too mainly because i have an unpredictable tinnitus condition as well as its been so long that i nearly have forgotten the 'happy old self' to socialise, its really wearing me out
 
I think I did try and toss my hearing aids when I was younger (like 12 or so), I hated being different.

And I was ready to toss my digital aids too last year when my audi asked me to try them out, boy did I hate those! :lol: I have worn my analogs since I was 5 so I am used to and dependant on analog. I hate the muffled sound of the digital and the fact that the digital ones seemed to have a life of their own and would go loud and soft on their own. :mad:

Give your family and BF time, it is hard for you to adjust but it is hard for them too. Surround yourself with everything you need to make your life better. Get those lights that turn off and on when someone rings the doorbell or the fire alarm goes off and stuff like that, a bed shaker for your alarm clock, and a smartlink that amplifies all the sounds around you directly into your hearing aid. I never want to part with my Smartlink. :D
 
I wanted to throw away my digital aids ever since the day I received them. They made speech very difficult to understand and needed constant repair. Thank goodness I had a pair of analogs I could still wear because the digitals did absolutely nothing to help me hear better except when it came to environmental sounds.
 
shortmuse92 said:
I'm starting to wish, more and more often, that I was hard of hearing, or even deaf, but that's another issue entirely. Those days, though, I plug in my headphones as well as I can to keep all outside sound out, and crank up the volume until I forget that I can hear, and everything just turns into white noise.

And hearing isn't all that awesome either. As isolated as deafies feel from hearies, hearies isolate themselves from each other the same way they isolate from deafies. It's just the way people are now. And I really hate how people do that. In my school it's: whites stay away from blacks, blacks from mexicans, mexicans from whites, all cause they're different... we don't have any deaf kids in my school, but I notice the pattern of ignorance is the same.
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You won't like being hard-of-hearing or deaf if you got tinnitus. There is nothing you can shut out the tinnitus once you hear it.
 
shortmuse92 said:
thanks i think i just might lol. that's part of the reason why i'm looking forward to college and becoming a terp though. i can't stand the stupid reasons people use to put up barriers between themselves and the rest of the world. but on the other hand, some people just SHOULD be isolated, but again, that's an entirely different story.
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You talking about the deaf people or hearing people who refuse to learn sign language?? or both sides?
 
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