I work in a noisy environment with machines running at a post office distribution center (don’t deal with customers).

I wear bilateral Starkey hearing aids (they suck with background noise so I rely on lip reading). Im looking to get Oticon in the future. I have cookie-bite hearing loss with one ear at severe to profound in highs. I have a processing disorder on/off. I have mild Aspergers (high spectrum of autism).

At work, I am dealing with 2 difficult people. I am tired of explaining my disabilities over and over. One is a manager that has no patience with me and rushes his voice. Another is a manual letter clerk, name is Greg, that has some form of disability (perfectionist) that constantly repeats himself when he sees me to “don’t touch the letters”.

What bothers me is that Greg constantly says “you can’t hear me”, “she can’t hear me” to others, “called you 3 times” ... what does he expect? He doesn’t complain when it comes to another deaf guy we have there. If he is smart, why can’t he get it that I don’t have perfect hearing? I don’t have a memory problem (I have photographic memory). I blew up yesterday and got in his face saying how would you like me to repeat over and over “don’t touch the letters!” It’s frustrating.

The manager on the other hand has some kind of anger issues but he doesn’t yell at me like the others. Rushing his voice to tell me something doesn’t help with my processing disorder and hearing in noise. I had to ask a co-worker of what he said. There are times I want to hide from him...he is toxic. Nobody likes him. I gave up explaining myself bc he doesn’t get it. It wastes my time. Next time he gives me explanation about something, going to ask him to put it in writing...he will not like it.

Does anybody experience others like this?