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So I was born deaf in one ear.

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I never thought of it as a hearing disability

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as I was growing up, but about five years ago,

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I started to lose hearing in the other ear,

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which caused some pretty significant hearing loss

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and really had an impact

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on my personal life and my work life.

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It was something I struggled through a great deal

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trying to figure out what was going on, why it was happening

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and how I was gonna be able to continue

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to do my job during this.

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And it was a time when I felt so supported,

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even through those struggles, by my employees,

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my peers, the company as a whole,

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trying to help me figure out what types of technology to use

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or how I could be successful at my job

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or sometimes have the flexibility

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to not be at work sometimes while I was trying

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to figure some things out on a daily basis.