I’m a hearing aid user. I feel as if I don’t fit in?
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I’m about to graduate from middle school soon. And I’ve wore my hearing aids since I was 3 years old. I’m 14 now. I don’t feel self conscious since I love having my hair up and I don’t feel as if I need to hide them. But once when I was in 6th grade, a bunch of 8th graders came up to me and made fun of me in-front of the whole middle school kids. Most of them didn’t laugh, actually, most of them were upset as them. But soon I’m going to High school. My problem is that will people judge me and will pick on me? I hate it when I don’t feel as if I don’t fit in with everyone else.
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I’m about to graduate from middle school soon. And I’ve wore my hearing aids since I was 3 years old. I’m 14 now. I don’t feel self conscious since I love having my hair up and I don’t feel as if I need to hide them. But once when I was in 6th grade, a bunch of 8th graders came up to me and made fun of me in-front of the whole middle school kids. Most of them didn’t laugh, actually, most of them were upset as them. But soon I’m going to High school. My problem is that will people judge me and will pick on me? I hate it when I don’t feel as if I don’t fit in with everyone else.
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May 26th, 2010 at 9:59 am
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X: It sounds to me like you’ve got a great attitude about life and you’re happy with yourself. You’re going to have people hassling you all through life, not just middle school and high school. You’ll have your own group of friends who you’ll hang with….who will be by your side through thick and thin….and who will stand up with and for you.
Don’t worry about it.
May 29th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
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I wouldn’t listen to them. People pick on others because they feel self conscious about themselves and have no self esteem. In the clinic I work in we teach children with hearing aids to be an advocate for themselves and their hearing loss. There will always be places in life where you don’t fit in, just march to the beat of your own drums. The people who are really meant to be your friends will see the true potential in you past the hearing aids and understand what kind of person you really are. So what if you are different, so is everyone else. And pretty soon high school will be over and those people won’t matter, maybe you could go off to college and become a deaf educator and advocate for others with hearing loss. I would blow it off, they aren’t worth it.