A Hearing Aid is Not a Cure for Deafness
My newsfeed blew up today. Apparently, a YouTuber who goes by the name Mr. Beast was boasting about how he helped 1000 deaf people hear for the very first time after giving all 1000 of those people hearing aids. There was not much information shared about these people who are deaf; nothing about how long they had been deaf, how profound their hearing loss was or if they had ever tried wearing hearing aids before. All that was said about them is that all of them were deaf. I was skeptical when I first came across the news. I read the article and, later on, I watched the video. While it was nice to know that those hearing aids helped those individuals who are deaf, I was skeptical about whether or not they understood the sounds the hearing aid helped them to "hear." Then I ended up taking a ride down memory lane. When I had first received my own hearing aid, shortly I had lost my hearing when I was 13, I didn’t miraculously hear everything...