Disability

[grayestofghosts]

I am having a thought about how apparently when I was very little, I wouldn't always seem to be able to hear my mother when she was talking to me. So she took me to a doctor and they gave me a hearing test and my hearing was fine -- the doctor said I had 'selective hearing' and both of them had a good laugh about it, like I was just being stubborn and choosing not to pay attention to my poor mother.

I was actually disabled the whole time and nobody did anything about it. I still struggle to understand most lectures and videos. Nobody told me and I had to figure this all out myself in my late 20s. It's a miracle I made it through college, really.

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[fred_mouse]

That doctor sucks, and I'm sorry you had difficulty.

I got my older two kids tested, because they failed what a friend referred to as the chocolate hearing test -- in which you stand behind someone and in a normal (indoor) voice ask whether anyone would like some chocolate. The audiologist was a trainee -- I took advantage of an offer of free tests -- but they were very good, and I learned about auditory processing issues as a result, which explained much (not just about the kids, either)! I wish you had found someone like that, or that your mother hadn't just written things off.