Louis Tomlinson Quotes

My hearing is usually O.K.

In 1967, I found out I was losing my hearing. I went 10 years without any help. I had otosclerosis - hardening of the bone in the middle of the ear.

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

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.

In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.

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.

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.

I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.

Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

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.

I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

I have really severe tinnitus.

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

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.

I am a little deaf now. Without my hearing aids in, I miss a lot of peripheral sounds. I had tinnitus, too, for a while.

I'm almost completely deaf anyway. So I'm worried. I'm very worried.

Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.