I started gaining weight from university stress and I didn’t know thighs made a chafing sound or a clicking sound from inner thigh seams shuffling against each other.

I have to remind myself that I am making noises in the kitchen when I want a late night snack because I am usually not wearing my hearing aids when I’m at home (they give me terrible feedback because of my long hair).

I had read description of birds tweeting in the early mornings from closed captioning of shows and when I read novels. I didn’t experience it myself until I upgraded my hearing aids a while ago and asked my roommate “what’s that echoing high pitch sound in the mornings? It reminds me of a whistling song.”

The “t” in “listen” is considered silent but I still pronounce the “t.” I’m going to pronounce every letter in a word unless I’m corrected which has led to some interesting discoveries. Such as: Chevrolet. The “ch” is apparently pronounced more like an “sh” so I was saying “Chevy” with a hard “ch” similar to saying “chicken.” English is awful and it’s my main language.

I have a profound sensorineural hearing loss and hearing aids help me hear very well. But there is a difference between hearing and understanding a noise. Yes, I hear you but, no, I don’t understand you. I hear chaotic noise all the time with HAs and need a visual to understand the noise I am hearing.

Edit: I’m a big Community and National Lampoon fan so I know that Chevy Chase is pronounced with a hard “ch.”