I feel for them. I really do. I just couldn't imagine never being able to just be alone. Not even for just one single second. Everyone needs time alone sometimes.
True, but in some ways it's not as bad for them because they've never known that feeling, so maybe they don't know why people would particularly want it. Like if I asked you if you ever want to spend time away from your legs. I know it's not the same because it's another person but just saying they might never think about that at all.
I follow a deaf creator on social media and sometimes they have days where they don't wear their cochlear implant. Even though it's hard for me to imagine choosing not to hear when you have a device that can help, I get it. It's how they were born. Their natural state of being.
From what my Deaf friends have told me, the sound and hearing experience is just really not the same from a cochlear as it is to us hearing folks. The sound is very distorted and they describe it as “loud”. A few prefer not to wear it at all because it’s more comfortable. My hard of hearing friend straight up turns off her hearing aids when she’s done with classes, she hates wearing them and having to hear everything “so loudly.”
Not Deaf or HoH but total opposite-misophonic (I hear every little thing) and can definitely relate to the feeling of wanting straight quiet. All the sounds of the world can just be overwhelming and annoying. I can get irritated and stressed by something as unnoticeable (to most) as the low buzz of a fan in another room, constant chirping, door banging, sniffling, tapping, etc.
And I am hearing so I'm used to the sounds and they still bother me a lot.
One of my best friends wears a lot of jewelry and these bangles and jade bracelets that constantly.jangle. she never takes them off. It actually drives me crazy but I deal. But sometimes I can't take it and just grab her arm and cup the bracelets so they stop jangling for like 5 seconds just so I can have peace.
So I can imagine if not hearing or being hard of- is like having earplugs (not to say it is just for example) I can see how taking the earplugs out (ie. Using Hearing devices) and having all the raw noise would be overwhelming.
Some people react better to the implants than others, from what I have read, it can be, “similar”, to, “normal”, hearing or a mess of distorted robotic sounds.
Brains don’t always, “interpret”, the implant’s stimulation correctly or well.
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u/One_time_Dynamite 1d ago
I feel for them. I really do. I just couldn't imagine never being able to just be alone. Not even for just one single second. Everyone needs time alone sometimes.