Name: Why I Wear Hearing Aids // International Week of the Deaf [CC]
Uploaded: 2018-09-23T10:34:32.000Z
Duration: 13 min
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Hello! This week is International Week of the Deaf

and I'm going to be making 3 videos which are just about my deafness

And you can find that in the card above, or down bellow in the description

'If you are deaf, why do you wear hearing aids?'

I'm sorry but that to me is genuinely hilarious in its irony, oh...

As I explained in my video on Monday which was all about I can and cannot hear

My hearing aids do help me, the genuenly do

They help me by cutting out the noise from.. within the human voice range

And then also amplifying the ones that are within the voice range

So it helps me in that I am able to distinguish a voice from within a world of noise

and differenciate a voice from say, a big truck that is driving past

It doesn't necessarily mean that I understand all of the words

Just listening with my hearing aids I will understand every third word I'm gonna say

So it would be kind of: word that I miss here

I miss every third word because part of my nerve condition

It takes the nerves to my ear a lot longer to heal

and then for the sound to be able to travel again

So again, without my hearing aids it's one flat sound

With my hearing aid is there suddenly differentiation

Oh my god, is that it? Is that the end of the video? It's really simple... that was too simple

I first got hearing aids when I went to university and realised that I couldn't hear

I've been going deaf for an incredibly long time and I hadn't realised what it was

I was having hearing difficulties when I was a small child, there were operations that were intended to fix them

I burst my ear drums a lot, I have really scared ear drums,

Another thing that makes it very difficult for sound to properly be carried

But I didn't actually have hearing aids neither did my father

Who really needed them, yeah, hi daddy if you are watching

He didn't want people to think that he was old

But, if your teenage daughter has hearing aids that's ok

Because it's a family thing, so it's fine...

But we have very different hearing aids, mine are not the prettiest we are gonna say, they are not...

They are proudly from the NHS who I thank so much

This is a mold, this is my actual ear shape

Goes in there, and then as you tuck it behind your ear close it

So the back bit as you have noticed is quite large, you probably seen much smaller hearing aids

Which I always thing is a bit strange because surely, with no offence,  they are more likely to drop stuff

or have difficulties seeing a small hearing aid

For me is very helpful to have larger ones, I have the mould because my hearing loss is such that

If your mould is smaller and not as fitted it means the sound can scape out of the outside

that feedbacks into the hearing aids and it creates a loop where whistles or screams

If you have someone in your life who wears hearing aids and they are screaming it's because sound

its looping around and I cant actually hear the sound

But apparently it's terrible, and it ruins romantic situations

They have a tiny little hole there, like a tunnel that goes all the way through

and taht is how air got into my head because

I got his new ones and they used to have a quite hard  ear piece which was painful and because they were

hard sound got around which moves as you move your mouth

However the squishy ones are so good at their job and they really do fill up the space

That there was no air getting to my ear, in the ear

and I was getting terrible headaches beause there was like an ear bubble

an air bubble stuck in my ear, and I kid you now oh my god

Hearing aids do actually come in a whole range of different colours

You can get gold ones, blue ones, red ones,  flashy sparkly silver ones...

And also you can get some supposedly match the colour of your hair, but it doesn't...

That was a lie , I tried those, they weren't good

So yes, hearing aids yes, they come in all different colours however I a stickler for color matching

and I worry that if they were a set colour that they would not go with every outfit that I wear

and I wear a lot of colours as you can see on my instagram

Yes I wear a range of colours and I like things that match so I want my

If they were gold but Iwas wearing an outfit that involved silver nekclace

Lots of people are a little worried when they know they are going to get hearing aids

Now, I would say that probably if you can see there's a little tip at the top of my ears now

and yes that's caused by my hearing aids but its not so terrible that they cant actually move the angle of your ear

This isnt gonna happen, this wont happen, it's ok don't worry

I know that some people specially girls, not that Iwant to you know gender specific

But girls wear their hair down over their hearing aids to hide them

But to me i find that more of a dificulty or a problem because it just ruffles, the hair ruffles

But that means that if you have hair its going to *imitates noise*

There are some really beautiful hairstyles that you can have like this one here

Even if you are wearing hearing aids and actually make hearing aids a feature