Julie Burchill Quotes

I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.

I have selective hearing.

I was born deaf. Sound never existed in my life, and this is completely normal to me.

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

Although I'm deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I'm unable to distinguish sounds and can't hear anything.

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

I didn't wake up one day and just couldn't hear. I woke up one day and realized I was having difficulty, and that I had overcompensated by lip reading, so that I didn't really understand how bad it was.

On a more serious note, my challenges with hearing loss are certainly an interesting journey. The surprising upside is that my difficulties in hearing have motivated me to know my guitar fretboard better. My playing has become much more melodic and intentional as a result.

One eare it heard, at the other out it went.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets.

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.

Attention is the material I work with.

I have serious hearing loss. I'm challenged if I don't have my hearing aids in.

I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.'

You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.

I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus... something like that.

I am tone deaf.

I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss.

It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just that I've been losing my hearing for a long time! So it's actually very important for me because I'm actually hearing impaired and I simply want to hear better!

I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.

I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.