Posted: May 06, 2012 10:50 am
DavidMcC wrote:... Therefore, perhaps the different reactions of the young woman and the little boy are because the young woman knew what it was like to hear, because she was not completely deaf, whereas the little boy had no idea what it was like until he was given the hearing aid. The young woman's joy was probably because of the ending of years of frustation, frustration possibly not felt by the little boy.
Maybe.. but I imagine it's more likely that the woman was experiencing pure joy at this amazing new sensation; hearing. Like I mentioned above, hearing aids can give you a vague impression of what hearing is like, and technically you are "hearing", but it's qualitatively nothing like actually hearing. She would never have heard what her own voice sounds like, for example, with hearing aids. She would have heard enough to differentiate words, but she would have no idea about pitch or timbre or anything like that.