Name: 耳が聞こえなくなってきたのか・・・ [CC] (So You’re Losing Your Hearing… [CC])
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:17:24.000Z
Duration: 16 min 20 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

For those of you who are new here: hi, I’m Jessica. I started to lose my hearing at 15

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and began wearing hearing aids at 18. I think my hearing loss is now classed as moderate-to-severe:

basically, without my hearing aids I live in a very pleasant underwater bubble with

cotton wool in my ears and with my hearing aids in I won’t get hit by a truck but I

also can’t tell what you’re saying. Mainly I rely on lipreading people

I talk about going through the process of losing my hearing a lot and I’m often asked

for advice on how to cope with it, I’m going to talk you through 6 key tips in this video

- How do you know if you have hearing loss or not?

Well, if someone has sent you this video… I think they’re trying to tell you something.

Maybe it’s time to get your hearing checked?

Do you turn the volume on the television up to a degree that everyone else in the room

Do you stare blankly at your phone when someone

calls because supposedly it’s on but you’re not entirely sure if a voice is coming out

Do you find it impossible to follow conversations

Do you make people repeat things over and

over again until they get really snarky with you?

Do people in your life complain that you annoyingly don’t listen to them?

over and over and over and over and over again?

Well, if so, you probably have hearing loss!

...or an Auditory Processing Disorder or similar medical problem.

- or you really are just that self important that you believe you’ve got better things

to do than listen to unimportant people and their meaningless conversations.

I like to keep things fun and bubbly on my channel but it’s important we don’t shy

away from negative feelings as well and golly, you just clicked on a video about losing your

hearing so you’re probably experiencing some of these too! Losing your hearing can

be isolating, exhausting, scary, annoying and sometimes just make you feel really, really

angry! This is especially true when your hearing is going in your teens or adulthood. Most

support systems for deafness are there to help children- who have likely been born deaf,

don’t have a memory of being able to hear and have young, plasticy brains that are able

to learn sign language quite quickly- or elderly people, for whom hearing loss is culturally

If you’re in your late teens, as I was, it’s difficult to get help when adults find

it easy to read you as just being lazy and not paying attention. I can’t imagine how

hard it must be when YOU’RE the adult in charge of phoning the electricity company

or chatting with other parents at the PTA or starting out in your professional life

without the listening skills you’d assumed you’d have.

- But don’t panic! We’re going to go through this together.

in the comments beneath this video who are also losing or have lost their hearing. Have

a look at other people’s stories, reply to their comments, start a conversation.

- P.S. I’m setting up a Discord board where we can all chat, there will be a ‘so I’m

Isolation is a really significant problem since hearing loss detaches people from interactions

with others. Maybe you live in a family of mumblers and you can’t even understand your

The world is built around human interaction and community and whilst it might feel like

deafness can take all of that away… the internet is a pretty leveling playing field

when it comes to communication. If you prefer meeting people in person then your doctor

or audiologist may be able to recommend a support group in your area.

Don’t freak out if they’re all two generations older than you. Age is just a number. You

can have friends with different but complimenting interests.

- Just don’t try to explain the ecosystem of the Kardashians. Clara tried that with

me our entire plane ride to Edinburgh and I’ve honestly never been so confused.

Also: talking to a therapist about your feelings of loss is a good thing. Change is scary.

Plan ahead- know the exits and the buses. If you

find yourself in a situation where you feel unsafe you take that Uber, screw the cost.

You’ll find you rely on your eyesight a lot, especially for safety, and the minute

you can’t see you’ll likely freak out. I can’t stand being in a club or a pub and

a light shining into my eyes. For the millisecond of blindness after the light hits I am completely

and utterly vulnerable and it shakes my core.

Try not to get into situations where you’ll need to rely on your hearing. That sounds

obvious but it can be as simple as just not walking alone in the dark

- which maybe you shouldn’t do anyway…? I don’t know what your area is like but…

Many deaf people often feel extremely vulnerable in situations where sounds are relied on to

provide essential information: This can vary from roadside traffic, public announcements

in airports or train stations to the genuinely dangerous stuff like fire alarms.

Make sure you have the best app on your phone to track the trains- something that updates

to the minute. You likely won’t be able to hear any changes that come on over the

- Clara says I need to inform non-British people that a ‘tannoy’ is a loudspeaker.

If you’re getting coffee in the train station, make sure you’re sitting in view of the

It doesn’t matter the degree of your hearing loss: if you cannot hear the announcement

clearly then you might as well not be able to hear it at all so you might as well start

acting like a deaf person and rely on just the visuals.

So face others when they’re speaking, their expressions and body language will put what

they’re saying in context. Make sure you can see a person’s face and lips when they

And in terms of things being kind of scary now you can’t hear so well: yes, for a lot

of deaf people, night-time can be terrifying: you can’t hear footsteps or fire alarms

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