#hardofhearingproblems

Being able to hear well enough to tell that there’s music playing, but not quite well enough to be able to answer “yes” when your nephew asks you if you can hear it (he tends to keep his music fairly quiet when he’s playing geometry dash, especially if he’s working on making a level)

Not hearing that someone is talking to you until the second or third sentence, and having to figure out what they’re talking about based on context clues. Bonus points if you ask for clarification, and they answer the wrong question. :P

Now it’s time to play a game called, “is someone talking to me or is it just the house creaking?”

Someone: *says something* Me: “…what?” *half a second later* “OH!”

Like. I don’t hear well enough to want to expend energy on this, but the fact that you said something makes me think it was something I actually needed to hear, and then by the time you’ve repeated it a couple times, I realize that all you were saying was that the wind was in your face, or that the cat was being particularly demanding, or muttering to yourself about a text someone sent you, and there’s that piece of listening energy, wasted.

Imagine if your headphones started giving you volume warnings at like 50% volume and some headsets capped out at like 70%—now try to use those headphones to get your music up to a listenable level! :P I don’t necessarily want it at a level that’s going to blast my ears out but I do want to get a fullness of sound

When you look up the lyrics to a song and then listen to it again, and there’s suddenly whole entire lines that you could swear weren’t in there before

Your family constantly bounces back and forth between thinking you can hear them better than you actually can, and thinking you’re deafer than you actually are. :P