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RIKKI: Hello.
So, it is Disability Awareness Month.
I got the month right this time.
And I want to start off with asking probably the most second-popular question.
The first one being - do you wear hearing aids?
And then the second one being - would you wear hearing aids?
This is a bit of a follow-up video from the 'Deaf Woman Hears for the First Time',
which I will link over there.
I'm making this as a follow-up video of some sort
because there were some things that I needed to clear up in a video.
So, before we get into the main part of the video, let's address some concerns.
The first concern was that, well,
'You've already made up your mind about the hearing aids, so...'
OK, you have a point, because I've always said
that I don't really have much interest in hearing aids.
I grew up without them, I wasn't able to get them
and I've just been completely used to not having them,
so I've never really found an interest.
However, that doesn't mean anything when it comes to my opinions
or talking about my experience wearing
or having an experiment wearing Chrissy's hearing aids.
My thoughts were about my experience
for that one half-hour or 45 minutes that we were doing something.
That's it.
The second thing, and this was actually the most popular thing that was written,
'The reason why the hearing aids didn't work for you
'is because they were Chrissy's and they weren't made for you.'
We had already acknowledged in the video that they were made for her,
so they weren't gonna work for me.
We didn't do this to be like, one size fits all.
We knew that it wasn't really gonna be the way that it probably would've been for me
if I had hearing aids that were made exactly for me.
Chrissy also knew that going in, when she suggested that we do this.
This whole thing was her idea
and Chrissy is a person who has been deaf nearly her whole life
and has been wearing hearing aids for nearly her whole life.
It was all her idea, not mine.
Not trying to throw anybody under the bus here, but just saying that this whole idea
did come from a person who has these things for a living, or for her entire life.
It wasn't a video that was supposed to be the most informative or whatever.
It was simply a fun, experimental video that was just for the heck of it
and, again, both things were already said in the video.
And the third thing is that somebody, actually more than one person,
suggested that I should do that free trial thing,
which I actually had no idea that you could even do a free trial for a month,
so that's new information that anybody can use.
Seriously, nobody ever told me about that and I've been to the audiologist a few times.
However, I don't think it still counts as free when you gotta walk into the door
and, because I do not have insurance, all specialists cost minimum $150 for me.
So, if I ever made enough on ads, I could see myself doing that type of thing,
but that same amount of money could be used for other expenses
that are more immediate in my life and more important to me right now.
But it would be a cool thing to do if that opportunity ever came around.
I'm not opposed to it.
So, do I want hearing aids?
Some people think that I have been wearing hearing aids all my life
but, when they find out, they go,
'Wait a second, I thought you were wearing hearing aids all your life,'
but the truth is no - that time was the only time that I ever wore a hearing aid.
What I can say is, at this point of time, considering my life and the things that I do
and finances and all of that, I continue to have no interest in hearing aids.
I don't think that they suit me and my life right now.
One of them is cost and, again, I know...
Now I know that you can have a free trial
and test 'em out for anywhere from two to four weeks.
But the thing is that you still gotta pay to walk into the door
and then there's all the other follow-up appointments
like buying new moulds or whatever, if something breaks, etc, etc.
And I just have other things in my life right now
that take priority over something that I don't really need at the moment.
Like, right now, I'm trying to get into therapy and whatnot and chronic pain stuff.
That is more important to me and that's where my money needs to go than that.
Like I said before, hearing aids are very expensive.
They're thousands of dollars per hearing aid,
and I always said that hearing aids are not covered by insurance,
but, apparently,
somebody that I know, that I follow on Twitter, who follows me as well, Kat, said that,
if you are persistent in writing letters to your insurance company,
they might actually cover it.
I don't know for sure.
I've never tried that.
If anybody else has tried that,
feel free to leave a comment down below, but, hey, new information there.
I touched on this in the comments in that other video
but my ears are very sensitive, so I can't have things in them for long periods of time.
I don't like earphones or headphones on my ears for long periods of time.
And I have to wear computer glasses when I stream
and just having something over the top just...I can't do it, it hurts.
It hurts within, like, five minutes.
I understand that moulds are made for the inside of your ears personally but I just...mm.
And the last thing is my lifestyle.
I am a homebody, I guess.
I don't have a normal, like, 9 to 5 job.
I work from home.
I'm in front of a computer most of the time.
I go out to events sometimes but I always have accessibility there.
When I go somewhere, like, on my own, shopping or whatever,
I just get people to write things down and whatnot.
I still have some hearing that I can pretty much get by
with a lot of things that I need to hear.
If somebody's, like, beside of me, I can probably, like, sense it but...
I just personally don't feel like I really need to have them
with my current lifestyle of just being at home.
If I had a 9 to 5 job with a boss that wasn't me,
if I had co-workers, if I went to school again, you know, whatever, things like that,
I would definitely consider it and try to afford it
because, well, that's me dealing with people on a regular basis
and, you know, having some sound would probably be beneficial.
But for what I do right now, I just don't see it.
I've always been an advocate for personal choices.
If you want a cochlear implant, go get yourself a cochlear implant.
If you want hearing aids, go get yourself some hearing aids.
Do whatever works for you.
If you don't want them, then don't get them.
Every deaf person is different.
I know a lot of deaf people who have hearing aids and cochlear implants
and I know a lot of deaf people who don't wear hearing aids and cochlear implants,
even if they do qualify for them, even if they do work for them.
They just personally don't want to, probably because of their needs in their life,
they just don't need it, and I'm on that side of things.
Simply it's not for me right now.
So, yeah, that's just me.
If you wear hearing aids or cochlear implants
or if you don't wear hearing aids or cochlear implants, I'd love to know your reasons why.
Feel free to share your stories down below
so everybody knows that, you know, we're all different - let's learn from each other.
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And I will see you later. Bye.
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