Seen at the audiologist office 👍🏼
I never realised how stressful listening to people was becoming until I got hearing aids, and I noticed I had just been totally making up most of the stuff I think I heard in conversations.
I find phatic exchange very hard going these days, and I think that's a result of the slow process of having trouble hearing and wanting people to get to the point. I think it's the same as becoming overweight, it happens one day at a time, it's not like you suddenly lost interest in people casual chit chat, but as it became more and more work, it gradually started to annoy me