The story of how we discovered I was unilaterally Deaf was actually pretty funny. I was with my family at Church. During a quiet pause in the service I guess I was misbehaving or something, so Mum leaned over to whisper something into my Deaf ear, and I piped up in my high-pitched , lil' 9 year old voice and hollered ,"WHAT? I can't hear you!"...Did I mention that the room was silent at that moment? Oh, yes, and Mum wanted to sink right through the floor.
TADA! There you go! There's why I did things a little differently! I was unilaterally Deaf! Still am, now that I think about it.
Anyhow, it was actually pretty funny. You see, when I was a lil' gal, they didn't do single ear hearing tests. They tested both ears at the same time. Back then I had really good hearing in my right ear, so I just slipped under the radar. Mum and my grandmother suspected hearing loss, but no one really thought to consider that I could be Deaf in only one ear. It's not something most folks consider. Most people think that the only options are profound Deafness (stone Deaf), Hard of Hearing in both ears, or just hearing. So we didn't figure out that I was Deaf on one side until I was 9.
TADA! There you go! There's why I did things a little differently! I was unilaterally Deaf! Still am, now that I think about it.
Anyhow, it was actually pretty funny. You see, when I was a lil' gal, they didn't do single ear hearing tests. They tested both ears at the same time. Back then I had really good hearing in my right ear, so I just slipped under the radar. Mum and my grandmother suspected hearing loss, but no one really thought to consider that I could be Deaf in only one ear. It's not something most folks consider. Most people think that the only options are profound Deafness (stone Deaf), Hard of Hearing in both ears, or just hearing. So we didn't figure out that I was Deaf on one side until I was 9.
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