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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, well, you just wait until you start losing your hearing. [/quote]

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F off with this crap. I'm deaf in one ear, very unexpectedly and rapidly. If I can't hear you, which happens to me [I]all day, every day[/I] I'm so hearing fatigued that after a while I don't have it in me to sugar coat saying "what?" Deal with it. [/quote]

I'm hearing impaired and I would never say what. People like you give those of us who are hearing impaired a bad name. People have very little patience with us as is. A simple, Sorry, I didn't hear you, or just Pardon? can't tax you so much more than an abrupt What?[/quote]

Who said I’m abrupt? I’m not. But if someone is hearing “what” from me multiple times, that’s on them to speak up. If they hear “what” from me once, they can deal with it. 95% of the time I say “pardon” or “can you repeat that” so if I, as the one who engages this way tons of times a day, can remain graceful 95% of the time, the receiver of “what” can extend me some grace and not police my language which is now borne out of fatigue and frustration. I will never apologize for not being able to hear, so “sorry, I didn’t hear you” is never going to happen. That’s a mental and emotional toll I’m not willing to take on all day, every day. Your hearing loss is likely different from mine, so you do you, and let those of us who experienced trauma say “what” a few times without getting scolded for it.

That goes for OP. Grace is a two way street.[/quote]

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