Help and Support

Here is one of the main reasons I wish to have been born deaf: My mother STILL doesn't understand. It's like she's too busy trying to prove me to be wrong all the time. She always questions my sensitive hearing because I seem to tolerate noises that are loud enough for hee to hear in her room from mine or loud music from the headphones I use to block out the car's loud engine. She claims that's louder than anything else, but I can hear through that music, too, depending on how loud the noise is. Then she questions how I can't "get used" to everything else that hurts my ears. She, once again, blamed the earplugs I constantly have to wear for not understanding what she says and claims that I can't hear. I keep trying to explain to her that there's a difference between hearing and understanding. But hell.. No one ever listens to me. They just question, thinking that I can only tolerate my own noise and can't hear what people are saying. That's not true. I can hear their voices...