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hearing aids day 1 (2nd march 2022)

crunchy

loud

lots wow just so many sounds

Ss!!! so much sibilance, oof is that annoying - might develop a lisp in preemptive retaliation/ self-defence

see also: whispering really carries

i can hear my hair and i am not happy about it

scratchy staticky sounds from hair moving, jaw opening/closing, breathing

does the air make sound??? i am confused

i feel high oh my gods on earth

too much behind the ear - ow

masks are a fucking pain right now

voice sounds funny, very conscious of every sound i make - just existing creates so much noise

under water at the cinema - loud crisp too much but also aware of thing in my ear, layer between me and the world, every slightly unreal and held at a distance

spooky

disorienting

music - especially classical so far but haven't tested much - everything else stops/ disappears/takes a back seat - andres rieu ftw - it's incredible, just entrancing and all-ecompassing, holy shit

my voice may change in relation to this (avoid s sounds, lower pitch and volume, kinda drawly because i can hear myself and it slows me down, usually speak very quickly)

everything is sooooo distracting!!!! the world is happening all around me

bereft when i took them out the first time, where has the world gone? everything so dim and distant, genuinely might cry

honestly kinda high key relieved after i took them out the second time jesus wept did i need a break

very tiring but in a different way from how straining not being able to hear is tiring - just so much new stuff to process! brain making ALL the connections wowzer oh boy

did i mention crunchy? because yeah if i could pick one word that'd be it, we're going iceberg lettuce on this

CRONCH