Reflective Essay: How I Lost My Hearing

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How I lost my hearing
Have you ever lost your hearing? Well, it happened to me few days ago. I felt people should start to respect the feeling of hearing. ( Now that I have experienced being deaf more people should not take it for granted. About 0.38% of the US is deaf. Isn’t that crazy? I’m going to tell you how I felt when I lost my hearing for about three days.
One day I was walking down a road and I saw a phone booth. I looked at it and it looked weird because I have never seen a phone booth in my neighborhood like that. I got curious and l went in it. It was weird because it looked like a futuristic machine and there was no phone anywhere. I pressed a button with an old man on it. It felt like my back started hurting and I got taller. I looked at my phones camera and I looked like my great great grandpa. I got scared and pressed a button that had a 12 year old kid on it and I was back to normal. One thing was missing, my hearing was …show more content…

I saw my friend Zade. I couldn’t hear him and I didn’t want him to know that I am deaf. I waved and said” Hello I have to go bye. I started running home. I got home and tried to tell my dad about what had happened to me, but he said” Sorry ask your mom or something. He was busy working so I couldn’t tell him. I went to the living room and I told my mom by writing about the whole situation on a piece of paper. She wouldn’t believe me. Then she realized that I wasn’t lying and I was being honest.
As a result, my mom and I rushed to the doctor. The doctor said that I got a virus that only old men get. Then I asked the doctor how to fix it. The doctor said that the only way to get my hearing back was to go back and reverse the situation. I got happy I could actually get my hearing back. When I went back I was tired and depressed and I had to sleep. The next day I had to go to school. I got scared that my friends would make fun of me or something but I had to go. My mom told the teacher what

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