Can You Hear Me Now?
U/Mynameiskelli: As an audiologist, I’ve noticed that people frequently pretend to have hearing loss. Youngsters act this way to garner attention or skip school for a day. Each of us has our strategies for getting them to back down. For me, it’s bringing my microphone down to a comfortable level and jokingly mentioning that they dropped something in the booth.
They instinctively reach for it, not realizing that their “loss” should have prevented them from hearing it. My favorite test is having students repeat words I ask them to do when they are lying. When I say them at a normal volume, and the kids are actually trying to hear me, I can’t help but smile and say hilarious things.
