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.”
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/StrangelyBrown 1d ago
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.