Comments on Profile Post by grime

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/chit-chat-and-all-that.35125/page-156#post-620722

@Damocles what other choice we got? I mean really we have no other choice lol sadness indeed

@Wrfortiscue tbh acceptance is probably the best choice we have. I’ve accepted mine. The thing that helped me is telling everyone I meet about it. Everyone knows I have T. I talk about it a lot.

That's amazing @Steph1710. I keep mine a complete secret from everyone but my family.

It's like being a really sh*t Batman.

@Damocles why do you keep it a secret? I let every fucker know that I have it. I love telling people about how horrific it is lol. I’m constantly walking around the museum saying - “my ears are ringing eeeeeeee!” I literally tell people about it within 5 minutes of meeting them. I tell them to not be loud or drop anything because they will hurt me.

Steph, I partially covered my reasons for doing so in this post: https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/can-you-habituate-to-reactive-tinnitus.11543/page-2#post-607656

But to further elaborate, it's also just to avoid the boring routine of: "I have tinnitus", "what?", "tinnitus", "what's that?", "a ringing in both my ears/head", "oh", "so I can't do noisy things", "okay... hey let's go sit at that bar with the really loud music playing", "I just said... never mind".