Timeline for How to effectively make others aware of my hearing impairment, which is non-obvious?
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| Nov 7, 2017 at 20:52 | comment | added | called2voyage | @Catija That is exactly my point. How do you deal with people who get offended when that happens? | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 20:51 | comment | added | Catija | @called2voyage The OP says that if they're looking "right at them", they generally don't have a problem hearing them? Heck, I don't have a hearing impairment and I often still have to ask people to repeat stuff just because my brain sometimes fails to keep up with the conversation... "hey, I missed that because I was thinking about what you just said, could you repeat that?" | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 20:46 | comment | added | called2voyage | @Catija Because you're looking "right at them" (actually not, but the perception is that you are). I have had someone disbelieve me before about legitimately just missing something they said, sans disability. | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 20:45 | comment | added | Catija | @called2voyage if you don't say "I have a disability" they're not going to tell you that they don't believe you... because you're just saying that you didn't hear them... Why would someone say "I don't believe you" if you say, "I didn't catch that, could you repeat it"? | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 20:43 | comment | added | called2voyage | The emphasis still seems to be insufficient to me. The OP is saying that he has explained to the listener, but they do not believe him. | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 20:41 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | @called2voyage the approach I described makes it largely a non-issue, but I added some stuff to make that clearer. | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 20:40 | history | edited | Monica Cellio | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 7, 2017 at 20:07 | comment | added | called2voyage | This doesn't seem to address the problem of the listener taking offense to not being heard. | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 19:51 | history | answered | Monica Cellio | CC BY-SA 3.0 |