Failure To Overcome Hearing Loss

The most significant challenge i have faced and slowly starting to overcome is my hearing loss. I have known about my hearing loss for quite a while now but it is still something i am not comfortable with. I have failed to educate people about my hearing loss because i have learned people don't take it as serious and think of it as a joke rather than understanding that it is not something easy to come forward about. People like to say things like “can you hear me” and sometimes like to gather attention by shouting and think it is funny . I refused to wear hearing aids growing up because the society we live in today is all about judging people . I overcame that challenge by not being scared or embarrassed and wearing the hearing aids so i can have a better education. I have slowly started to get over this challenge by not caring about people's opinions so much. I have found that hearing loss is nothing to be ashamed of. It is actually pretty common. It is definitely a challenge but nothing is fun without a challenge.
It is really easy to get distracted when you're in a classroom with a bunch of students shouting. A lot of the times when their are students talking over the teacher I fail to hear what the teacher is saying so i just doze off and wait till the teacher is done so i can ask my partner what is going on. A classroom full of judging students is not always easy. I have found that students stare when they see hearing aids and this is distracting because it is hard to concentrate when you know someone is staring you down. It is definitely way more challenging for a hearing loss student. This is because it is not as easy as it would be for a regular student. Regular students do not have to go out of there way to focus on what is