Raging 8th Nerve

HOH Word Association

At MyHearingLoss web, I asked for friends to suggest words/phrases associated with their own hearing loss experiences. I made minor edits for clarity purposes. Remember, this list has been composed by people who are hard-of-hearing, not profound deaf. Feel free to add your own or comment.

HOH WORD ASSOCIATION


1. Achievement
2. Agony
3. Alone
4. Anger
5. Angry
6. Baffled
7. Best
8. Better
9. Blank look
10. Blissfully quiet
11. Bored
12. Brainless
13. Brave
14. Brave
15. Calm/tranquil
16. Canny
17. Complicated
18. Computer
19. Confident
20. Courage
21. Creative
22. Days
23. Depressed
24. Desolate
25. Disconcerted
26. Discrimination/discriminated against
27. Dream
28. Dreamstate as your body can not feel what you can not hear
29. Dumb (sometimes)
30. Dying to know what's going on
31. Emails
32. Embarrassed
33. Expected to know everything when you haven't been told about it
34. Facing my fears
35. Family
36. Fatigue
37. Fear(3f’s)
38. Feeling stupid
39. Feeling totally alone
40. Foiled
41. Forum
42. Friends
43. Frown for absolutely no reason.
44. Frustration
45. Frustration (#1)
46. Gullible
47. Happy
48. Having no privacy (need interpreter/helper for communication)
49. Helpful
50. Humorous
51. Imagine
52. Inadequate
53. Intelligent
54. Isolated, even from the ppl that know better/love you most
55. Isolation
56. Jittery
57. Logical
58. Lonely
59. Modest
60. Nervous
61. Panic
62. Peaceful
63. People make decisions for/control your life
64. Perseverance
65. Played cruel "jokes" on
66. Proud
67. Prudent
68. Puzzled
69. Rattled
70. Real
71. Resourceful
72. Sad
73. Satisfaction/pride in oneself proving ppl wrong, who said you couldn't
74. Savvy
75. Self-doubt
76. Sharp
77. Shrewd
78. Shyness.
79. Smart (sometimes)
80. Strength
81. Strong
82. Sudden
83. Support
84. Terrible
85. Thwarted
86. Timid
87. Torment
88. Ugly
89. Uncertainty
90. Unimportant
91. Unique
92. Wise
93. Witless
94. Worse
95. Worthy