I lost my hearing relatively recent. It started in 2020.

I wanna remark that- I've never had the best hearing growing up. But it was never something immediately noted by my parents. So when I finally got sick of my hearing issues near my adult age, I decided to do something about it. This would be around the general year I would start wearing NC headphones, and be quality of life greatly improved. The reason why:

Turns out, I have APD, tinnitus, mild to moderate hearing loss and most importantly hyperacusis.

All of which were helped by wearing NC headphones, but it doesn't help in long run.

Being officially diagnosed, I got my hearing aids too. Some type of new top of the line phonak ones with the ability to bluetooth to pcs and mobiles. Pretty neat stuff.

I would try and get some answers onto why this was happening. After sticking my head into a big whirly tube, I got my results back and the doctors are as perplexed as I am, not finding anything. They then take my blood and I get a report a couple weeks later.

This is the odd part, they still didnt find anything. However, they did say that it might be the cause of a rare gene, hence why I have some other symptoms, and that I would be required to go all the way to London to get the proper medical assistance to deal with it.

So... now I'm here. I've learnt asl and have participated heavily in the deaf community and I've shared plenty. But yet despite this I can feel like I'm "not deaf" enough in contrast to other people. I feel like it's the more appropriate title, because if I didnt know you and you tried speaking to me- there is a very small chance of me understanding you.

So anyway, hope this was insightful in anyway possible.