{"id":7439,"date":"2023-06-23T19:05:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T19:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oldsite.chha.ca\/?p=7439"},"modified":"2023-06-23T19:05:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T19:05:01","slug":"default-bodies-and-default-assumptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldsite.chha.ca\/fr\/default-bodies-and-default-assumptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Default Bodies and Default Assumptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-fr\">D\u00e9sol\u00e9, cet article est seulement disponible en <a href=\"https:\/\/oldsite.chha.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">Anglais Am\u00e9ricain<\/a>. Pour le confort de l\u2019utilisateur, le contenu est affich\u00e9 ci-dessous dans une autre langue. Vous pouvez cliquer le lien pour changer de langue active.<\/p>By Emily Rafuse<\/p>\n<p>Hearing aids and hearing loss took me a long time to reconcile myself with.<\/p>\n<p>Since I began university, I\u2019ve met more people my own age with hearing loss than I had in the previous 18 years of my life, especially since I grew up in a small town in Nova Scotia where I was the only kid in class with hearing aids. I grew up watching shows like Switched at Birth to see others with hearing loss but didn\u2019t read a book with a deaf protagonist until just this past year. Not seeing anyone like me in my daily life when I was younger left me insecure about my hearing loss, especially with how obvious it was and is (or at least how obvious it is to me).<\/p>\n<p>In the past when I explained hearing loss to others, I would default to using words like \u2018normal\u2019 and \u2018abnormal\u2019 even though my hearing loss is \u2018normal\u2019 to me, because I knew it wasn\u2019t \u2018normal\u2019 to everyone else around me &#8211; particularly not the other kids in my classes. Yet, despite hearing loss and hearing aids not being \u2018normal,\u2019 for others, it was my normal, so where did that leave me?<\/p>\n<p>Walking into a classroom at school, 9 out of 10 times, I\u2019m probably the only one with hearing loss, though I was lucky enough to have other classmates with hearing loss and hearing aids this past year. As a result, I used to be self conscious, knowing that my experiences were not \u2018default\u2019 or \u2018normal\u2019 experiences for my classmates which meant that I would participate less and less depending on how comfortable I felt in that moment.<\/p>\n<p>However, the more I spoke, the more confident I became about sharing my experiences and perspectives. A side effect of that was starting to question the default experiences that I grew up hearing about, and how I had internalized it in such a way that it impacted both how I spoke with others about my hearing loss and disability, and the language that I used to speak about my experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Currently I\u2019m working on my thesis and studying the ways that literature upholds and deconstructs the idea of a \u2018default\u2019 or \u2018normal\u2019 body and how we each have a role in how these defaults are spread and upheld. While I\u2019m not studying pieces of children\u2019s literature that deal with deafness and hearing loss, I am studying books that handle visible, physical disabilities and questioning the ways that I have spoken about my own hearing loss and my own body in the past. As a result, I\u2019ve become more confident and comfortable with my hearing and with sharing my experiences with others \u2013 hearing loss is my normal and that\u2019s enough for me!<\/p>\n<p>How do you explain your hearing loss and\/or hearing aids to others?","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nD\u00e9sol\u00e9, cet article est seulement disponible en Anglais Am\u00e9ricain. 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