Hearing Aids”.
My instant
response was “No, you really don’t!”
I mean let’s just
take a look at it again “I wish I could wear Hearing Aids”. It seems such a
silly comment for my 3 year old son to come out with. How did he even come to
think of that?
I know kids ‘say things’ mainly to get a reaction.. Well it
certainly made me stop for a second.
There stood my
rather mischievous boy, twirling the plastic on the battery
pack (that he rather naughtily stole from my handbag), and looking at me like
this was the most natural statement to make.
Of course it isn’t.
No one wants to
be Deaf. No one asks to be Deaf, we just are and we somehow just deal with it.
We don’t want to draw attention to it.
It’s our life and
we put our Hearing Aids in because we need to. It's our habit.
I sometimes
very reluctantly want to put them in as I know as soon as I do; I have to get
on with the day. Be an Adult and Mum. (Because sometimes it really makes it
easier to pretend you’re still asleep when your little one shouts down your
ear with none in!)
I had a memory of
when Freddie wore some of my lipstick and he applied it pretty impressively; I remember thinking “Why would you think of doing that, you odd sod!” and
once I uploaded the photo to Instagram many people gushed over how cute he
looked. One of my friends went “aww, that’s so cute! He wants to be just like
Mummy! He’s clearly picked up on your tips of applying!” and it instantly made
me feel like I was so narrow minded. That I couldn’t see beyond the fact that,
I am who he looks up to. He learns from me. He doesn’t see things as Male or
Female; just quite simply, an activity that Mummy does. I want to try too!
It made me feel sad, it
made me realise that I obviously hadn’t seen that in him. I didn’t notice that
he watched me apply my lipstick and found it intriguing.I didn't notice them little eyes open wide with curiosity.
I noticed that he
loves me putting moisturiser on his face – why didn’t the two click?
I felt bad for
snapping (not out loud, but in my head) and being so negative towards his little
declaration. I took a step back with that memory and tried it a different way.
“Why would you
want to wear Hearing Aids, though Freddie?”
“Because then I
can have my own batteries to put in them”
Welcome to this
lad I call my son.
