I wasn't born directly deaf to my knowledge but I was born with many ear issues and infections that lead to operation after another which eventually caused me to be discovered to have conductive hearing loss around age of 9. Doctors always said I'll lose nearly all my hearing around my 50s but the way I've been hearing less and less recently in the last few years and 100x worse than I was when I was 15, 10 years ago I am now almost completely deaf in n left ear, my right ear has the amount of hearing I had in my left ear when I was 15.

Meaning by time I'm 35 If the way my hearing loss that's become rapidly increased in recent years but considered normal by the doctors.

I'm afraid of a non hearing world, a world without sound not being able to hear my friends and loved ones. I'm afraid of losing people close to me due to not being able to hear or communicate with them anymore.

I'm trying to learn sign language but with no one to learn it with or talk to who's more or less fluent in it, I struggle to be disciplined in learning it. My happy days are becoming numbered as I seem to be closer to deafness the sound of nothing, many people seem it as a blessing in disguise but me I see it as a curse.

Please take care of your hearing don't blast music out loud, I used too as teenager cause I was stupid dumb. And now 25 I wish I hadn't I have to have max volume to be able to understand whats going on in the audio I'm listening to be it a show with subtitles or music.

I'll miss the sound of the world when I'm in complete and soul breaking silence.