At that point, I’ll just say, “I’m sorry, I’m partially deaf. Could you say that again very loudly or in different words?”
It’s a whole new world.
My wife… I ask “what?” and she repeats either just the subject, or the sentence without the subject – never the full sentence.
“We still need to pack for our trip.”
“What?”
“Our trip!”
“What about it?”
I have to do this too at times with my dad. He’ll come bursting into my office like the Kool Aid man and ask me something completely random and I tell him point blank I have no idea what he’s talking about.
My girlfriend will just start talking about something we were talking about 6 weeks ago as though it’s still salient.
My life with ADH… Oh look there! A bird! What were we talking about?
I think the way I experience is quite awkward.
I ask them to repeat what they said and then part way through them saying it again, my brain realises what it was first time so I end up agreeing with them while they’re still talking.
A Yao Ming face meme. This really is a step back in time
What? What? What? Okay! What? What? What? Yeah!
Especially tasty when they’re introducing themselves.
nice try stone cold steve austin, we’re all onto your “what” gimmick! WE’VE SEEN IT BEFORE
Did people actually upvote this meme