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Asking Eric: No One Should Mock You for Your Hearing Loss, and There’s Help Out There

The advice column highlights support from ALDA and HLAA, which help people overcome stigma and find peace, with most members not identifying as deaf, according to the columnist.

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Dear Eric: I’m deaf, gradually lost my hearing and got a cochlear implant in December 1994. I wanted to respond to “Hearing Jokes”, a person with hearing loss whose hearing-impaired siblings staged an intervention because the letter writer didn’t want to get a hearing aid.

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Mass Live broke the news in Springfield, United States on Tuesday, February 3, 2026.
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