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Imagine being deaf for a day

Matilda Rose is 11.  This is her story:

You know how it is when someone presses the mute button on the TV, but now instead imagine they pressed it on your life.

Imagine waking up and not hearing anything, not even your alarm clock or the garbage trucks at 6 am!

Imagine being able to turn off your nagging sisters or brothers, imagine even being able to switch off Mrs Bradburn… not that I ever would.

Being deaf is like living in only part of the world but I don’t have to live in only part of the world because I have a cochlear implant which lets me hear.

The cochlear implant is also called the bionic ear as it works much better for people like me than a hearing aid ever would. Beware I can also lip read so don’t be telling secrets on the other side of the playground!

When I had my cochlear implant operation, I was a nine month old baby. At the time this made me one of the youngest people in the world to have an implant. What my implant does is make me hear really well when there is just one person talking to me, but in group conversations it sounds like a hundred voices at once and feels overwhelming, and sometimes I feel left out.

I don’t like to feel left out as it hurts my feelings.

I am not asking for sympathy just a bit of consideration. But at the end of the day just like being tall, being deaf is part of what makes me ME!!!

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