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Okay, you asked. I have a high frequency deafness. Here is what I experienced: In kindergarten -- my teacher put rags on my feet because she didn't like the sound that my shoes made on the wood floor. She is also the teacher that suggested to my mother that I may have a hearing loss. In...

I am divorced. I was in an abusive relationship for 15 years. Self-esteem problems that close friends and family did not understand that I had. When the system labels you deaf and dumb even though you are not dumb, it hurts. It took me a long time to recover from that. I had to not only...

I found that my hearing aids do help me a lot. However, since your deafness is just in one ear, you need to decide if it is causing problems for you or not. You might want to ask those around you if they find that you are missing out on too many things that are said. Then proceed to an...

I am a senior citizen with high frequency nerve deafness. They did not have hearing aids for me until I was in high school. Of course, hearing aids do not restore all the lost hearing. I wondered what kind of problems others have trying to fit into a hearing world. The biases that I have run...