Why I decorate my hearing aids -Jessica Marie Flores

What's sup everybody!

Welcome back!

I wanted to talk a little bit today about
the reason

why I actually decorate my hearing aids.

So when people meet me for the first time,

and even people who already know me,

they think that the reason why I decorate my hearing aids is

because I'm and artsy weird person.

While that is true,

I do enjoy decorating my hearing aids, I have fun doing it

that is only part of the why I actually decorate them.

The other reason why I decorate my hearing
aids so bright and colorful is because

they help me inform hearing people that I am Deaf.

Awhile back I used to wear clear earmolds,

and hearing aids that matched the color of my hair,

to hide my hearing loss from hearing people.

I'll talk more about why I was trying to hide my hearing loss

in a different video,

but to get to the point,

when I tried to hide my hearing loss

it made things a lot more

complicated for me.

I constantly had to deal with people's attitude problems

when it came to me asking them to

repeat themselves again.

Something that you guys should know,

a majority of hearing people,

when they meet somebody

for the first time or

when they try to catch the attention of somebody

for the first time,

they automatically assume that

everybody is hearing.

These assumptions can make it very difficult

for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

in certain situations.

For example, there was this day where it was the first day of school,

and there was a teacher

who was passing out everybody's individual class schedule while taking roll call.

And I was trying really hard to pay attention to him.

But the whole time he was saying names,

he was pretty much looking at the paper, faced down.

and for those of you that don't know,

it is extremely hard to read somebody's lips

when they're not facing you.

So anyways, everybody got their class schedule
except me.

So I was like oh crap I better go up and ask him

and I went up and I was like

"Hey did you call Jessica Flores?

I didn't hear you say my name."

Well the response that I got was,

"I called it out TWICE.

Next time you need to stop messing around

and pay attention."

Yeah I a lot more stories than just that one.

But my point being is that a majority of hearing
people assume that everybody is hearing.

I mean you guys out number us but just keep
in mind that we're out there.

That there is a large population of Deaf and
Hard of Hearing people.

If you want to get some experience on what
it's like to go through these kind of things,

hearing people, I dare you,

the next time you talk to a stranger or maybe a family member

or somebody that you know,

Ask them to repeat
themselves 5 or more times.

And see what kind of reactions you guys get.

If any hearing people do decide to do the
challenge,

big props to you.

What were your reactions, what did people
say?

What did people do?

Leave them below in the comments for me to
check out,

because you know, It's a good chance

that I've probably got a lot of those

same reactions that you got.

Yeah, see you all later!

(PAH!)

Finished