BTW, I’ve dealt with this most of my adult life. My auditory nerves were damaged when I took an accidental overdose of the medicine chloroquine when I had chloroquine-resistant malaria in Africa and was trying to save my own life. If am the rude one here, well, I have had a lifetime of feeling embarrassed that am a bother to well-hearing people when, in fact, I am just trying to be an active participant in society like you. I am already doing 98% of the accommodating and effort to feel that I belong. It’s not fun to know you’re the burden because of something you can’t control. These days, believe me, I mostly keep to myself, or interact in small groups in quiet places, or enjoy big crowds where I am anonymous, or with a few people willing to go that extra 2%
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