Difficulties you have got when being deaf?

Question

I'm doing a research about impaired hearing people. I want to know the feelings and difficulties of impaired hearing people. Please help me. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I am hearing impaired. It's a major pain in the butt.
People assume you're ignoring them, or stuck up, or stupid. They refuse to look at you so you can read their lips and won't speak up when you ask them. People under 40 do not enunciate as well as older folks do and that makes it even harder to hear/ read lips. When you attempt to assist yourself by telling the person you're deaf, then they get all condescending and talk down to you like you're unable to comprehend.
On the far other hand, you can eaves watch everyones conversations, know what private stuff your boss is discussing and loud noises don't bother us.
Thanks for asking, it's a really tough disability to have as it's invisible.
P.S. In daily life I have to deal with idiots like NiraiArun S (above "answer" of jibbersih) who find it amusing to ridicule the handicapped.

Answer 2

Well the difficulties are just a matter of perspective. If one lives a very happy, loving and successful life despite being deaf, then the difficulties seem minimal and trivial.

I've been deaf since I was 10 months old. I never felt it was difficult being deaf in general. I had a very good oral education to start off with and went to hearing schools. Sure there are things I cannot do such as talk on the phone, being able to understand what people in groups talk about, not getting everything that a teacher says, not being able to go to the movies and enjoy it, and so on.

But I don't dwell on what I cannot do. There is quite a lot that I can do. I'm thankful for that. I don't take it for granted. Being deaf is nothing compared to other worse disabilities that have greater limitations for the individual. Plus we live in a great time where there are great technological advances for us.

Some deaf people enjoy being in the deaf culture because it is where they do not feel like that they lack something. It becomes forgotten as there is no communication barrier. Whereas a deaf person in a group of hearing people is reminded that they lack something.

The difficulties and feelings of being deaf can be minimized if the individual does not place attachments on whether they can hear or not or whether they can understand people or not, if we find that happiness within, then it's always constant despite not hearing. The body is just a temporary shell for us to reside in. So what if it is faulty at times, we just make do until we no longer need it. Deafness does not define who we are spiritually.

Answer 3

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