MemberThank you for this @Daniel Lion, was very much appreciated.
To be honest with you, and this is a secret just between us, I do pretty alright despite my tinnitus. Volume decrease or simple habituation (you tell me), over time, has meant I can function really well, within limitations. I basically do everything I can do, outside of noisy places and with hearing protection on everywhere else, and that for me has kept hope of fulfilling many ambitions alive.
Of course people see me raining fire on posts that preach positivity, but that's just because I want this to end, for all of us. My own perspective is that we truly need to make a bigger deal of this illness, and not tell the world we're doing "okay", so that everyone (but us) can feel fine maintaining the status-quo. But make no mistake, I understand the upset another human's suffering invokes. Naturally we want to tell other people "it will be okay", "you'll be fine", "it gets better".
As I acknowledged once before, it's a tough balancing act.
About the art, admittedly not so much anymore, but hopefully that will change in the future. I'll let you know.
