RoseRodent
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I'm not sure this is the best fit with the hearing aid section, if you know of non-wearers who you think could be helpful maybe you could funnel them into this section for a bit.
If people have broadly or totally given up on hearing aids, why and what did you do next? Did you have any problem interactions with other people and how did you handle them?
I feel like I wear hearing aids for everyone else's convenience, and I can't decide if that's worth another investment of my own time, effort and (majorly!) money to be left still struggling in most situations. I can hear OK aided in a nice quiet room talking to one person with nothing else going on. Move to any other environment on earth and that all goes out the window.
I feel like because my audiogram doesn't look "that bad" and we are still lacking the technology to measure distortion and dead regions I'm going to have problems with any adjustments (accommodations) that involve getting that stupid letter "Rose has a bilateral mixed hearing loss..." from the ENT and the physician, it's not going to tell them I am "deaf enough" for the accommodations I will need if I ditch the hearing aids. I'm going to get hassle from people who figure that it's my duty to wear the hearing aids so that they don't have to come so far to meet me in the middle. I'm not going to fit into Deaf world because I don't sign, and I'm not sure that BSL is the communication method for me, but speaking isn't either. I looked at supported aural methods such as SSE and cued speech, which are far more my cup of tea, but far less widely used.
And of course the hearing aids give me a nice big signal to everyone else that I can't hear them and there's a good reason for that.
I don't know whether I go for the option to buy better hearing aids or say forget it, nothing is going to give me hearing in those social situations where it really matters to me.
Would appreciate some perspectives on that.
If people have broadly or totally given up on hearing aids, why and what did you do next? Did you have any problem interactions with other people and how did you handle them?
I feel like I wear hearing aids for everyone else's convenience, and I can't decide if that's worth another investment of my own time, effort and (majorly!) money to be left still struggling in most situations. I can hear OK aided in a nice quiet room talking to one person with nothing else going on. Move to any other environment on earth and that all goes out the window.
I feel like because my audiogram doesn't look "that bad" and we are still lacking the technology to measure distortion and dead regions I'm going to have problems with any adjustments (accommodations) that involve getting that stupid letter "Rose has a bilateral mixed hearing loss..." from the ENT and the physician, it's not going to tell them I am "deaf enough" for the accommodations I will need if I ditch the hearing aids. I'm going to get hassle from people who figure that it's my duty to wear the hearing aids so that they don't have to come so far to meet me in the middle. I'm not going to fit into Deaf world because I don't sign, and I'm not sure that BSL is the communication method for me, but speaking isn't either. I looked at supported aural methods such as SSE and cued speech, which are far more my cup of tea, but far less widely used.
And of course the hearing aids give me a nice big signal to everyone else that I can't hear them and there's a good reason for that.
I don't know whether I go for the option to buy better hearing aids or say forget it, nothing is going to give me hearing in those social situations where it really matters to me.
Would appreciate some perspectives on that.