#i havé à bunch of people in my life with hearing loss tho so i know that my hearing IS pretty good
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so one of my skills in life is that i test very well, largely because of pattern recognition, and i realized today that it’s pretty detrimental to the medical evaluation process. i basically scored perfect on a hearing test today that ruled out some diagnoses, and i am only now going back over the process in my mind and realizing that i didn’t actually hear a bunch of stuff i said i did, i just knew the right answer because the pattern of words and beeps was a consistent speed and pattern and they told me in advance what words they were going to use so like? yeah?? of course i knew when to raise my hand and could figure out what word you were saying? anyway i got an A in hearing which is normal to want yet perhaps detrimental to achieve.
and i can’t really call them and go “sorry i think i outsmarted your test, like a dumbass” so if i notice my hearing getting worse i’ll call them back and get re-tested, and bring someone with me to be like “your goal is not to pass the test. repeat after me. your goal is not to pass the test.”
#i just like to ✨ impress people ✨ by getting all the answers right#and i can’t seem to turn that part of my personality off. fuck me. anyway#i havé à bunch of people in my life with hearing loss tho so i know that my hearing IS pretty good#and none of the stuff they discounted based on the test had cures anyway soooo no big loss#this poor woman like yeah tinnitus can be caused by literally anything and there’s nothing you can do about it#it might seem to go away but it’ll definitely come back and will continue to suck even though we don’t know what caused it. sorry#try not to stab yourself in the ear i guess#what a professional specialty to have man i feel for her#the symptoms
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