silent-world-of-a-deaf-boi:

ladynorbert:

autisticheatherduke:

autisticheatherduke:

Dear hearing aid providers: stop only advertising your hearing aids for old people – from a deaf 19 year old who’s used hearing aids since she was 7

Note: you don’t have to use hearing aids, or have any form of hearing loss to be able to reblog this

Deaf people using hearing aids should be as normalized as people with vision loss wearing glasses.

Before I got a hearing aid I didn’t like the idea of it because I associated it with only old people having them. But when I actually got news that I was able to have a hearing aid and then got one I was so excited and happy and I now I am all for showing off that I have one.

So to my fellow deaf/hard of hearing people who have a hearing aid or are going to have one, don’t be ashamed. It’s normal, it’s beneficial if you think it will be. No one will really actuallt comment about you havinf one but if someone does say shit, you can just turn it off and shut them out.