Hearing Loss Quotes

“On a more serious note, my challenges with hearing loss are certainly an interesting journey. The surprising upside is that my difficulties in hearing have motivated me to know my guitar fretboard better. My playing has become much more melodic and intentional as a result.”

“In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.”

“The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.”

“I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show!”

“Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.”

“Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.”

“There is a lot of technology out there that can help people with hearing loss including wearable technology that vibrates.”

“My hearing loss was essentially due to noise exposure during my military service. I was on an anti-submarine sub-chaser in WWII, and we had lots of depth charges going off all around us. There were plenty of explosions, and they were loud!”

“In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.”

“I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms: ringing in the ear, pressure in the ear, fluctuating hearing loss, and attacks of vertigo.”

“I think the hearing loss started with 'Bonanza.' Sometimes the director would put us in a box canyon and have us fire our guns. The sound would really reverberate in a box canyon. It took me a long time to realize what was coming on me.”

“I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss.”

“Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.”

“I had worked so hard on three projects 1997 that it knocked the gas out of me. It was a mystery to the medical profession, but you can test positive for Epstein-Barr and not have it. When you get a post-viral syndrome, for some people it causes chronic fatigue or hearing loss. For me it became light sensitivity.”

“I have serious hearing loss. I'm challenged if I don't have my hearing aids in.”

“Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For species that depend on hearing for survival - to find food, migrate, and communicate - any hearing loss could be catastrophic. As one scientist noted, a deaf whale is a dead whale.”

“When people have hearing loss, I think they often take that burden and pass it on to their friends and family, and we make them scream and yell at us so we can hear! But I think it's better to take responsibility and wear hearing aids!”

“Hearing loss has not affected my vocal range. I can still pitch perfectly, but without the hearing aids, I don't hear the intricate high parts of the actual spectrum.”

“So, for people who aren't aware: the biggest obstacle to having hearing loss is not having access to language. And there are many Deaf children with hearing loss who grow up with little to no language their whole lives.”

“The number-one affliction of all of our veterans, of all of our wars - Iraq, Vietnam, back to the Civil War - all over the world, is hearing loss, for obvious reasons.”