• KrupskayaPraxis
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    1 year ago

    Why can’t I just ask people to repeat themselves? I feel so much shame for being hard of hearing. I feel like a burden.

    • redtea
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      1 year ago

      People take it so personally, don’t they

    • ☭CommieWolf☆
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      1 year ago

      Before I started losing my hearing I was already used to asking people to repeat themselves, since I was living abroad and not fluent in the language after all. Although back then nobody seemed to mind, since its normal for foreigners. Ironically its my own countrymen who had less patience for it.

    • multitotal
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      1 year ago

      I wish people asked me to repeat myself rather than assuming that they heard/understood what I had said.