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Johanna Højland’s story

When I was around 19, I took a gap-year job at a restaurant, and that’s when I really started noticing it. I couldn’t hear the bell in the kitchen, I had trouble hearing what my colleagues said when it got noisy, I struggled to hear what the guests were saying.

It hit me: Things that other people could easily hear, I could not. It would often seem like I was ignoring people, but I simply didn’t hear them.

That’s when I went to the doctor. They discovered that I have a lot of scar tissue in my right ear from multiple eardrum ruptures as a child, caused by middle-ear infections.

It had never really been a problem. I would just sit at the front of the classroom so I could hear the teacher better. I remember sometimes zoning out or daydreaming and missing parts of what was said. It was often described as a concentration issue. I wasn’t super-thrilled when I heard the word ‘hearing aid’. It was great to finally get help, sure, but I immediately thought of my grandparents.

I didn’t know any other 19-year-olds with a hearing aid. It felt strange and lonely—though also a bit exciting. Without my hearing aid, I tend to shut the world out. When I wear it, everything opens up. I can follow conversations at a table, hear people several seats away. It’s a huge improvement in quality of life, really.

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