I Used To WISH To Be Deaf
My reasoning doesn’t make it much better.
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Ever played “Would you rather?”? My family has always loved it, and we have asked each other some weird stuff over the years.
A milder one that really stuck with me as a kid was: “Would you rather be blind or deaf?”
My answer was easy. I would much rather be deaf, and the more I thought about it… The more I wished that I actually was.
To the deaf community… please do not let the rest of this weird article offend you. I was a strange kid with strange reasoning.
As an extremely anxious kid, hearing aids that could be turned off and on sounded like a great solution to my problem.
Since the age of four, I have struggled with anxiety. My anxiety originally stemmed from a phobia. I had (and still have) a horrible phobia of throw up, known as emetophobia.
As a child, I was fearful of public places. School was a nightmare every single day. Parties were terrifying. Kids eating…
