Cell phones and analogies

Imagine going through life talking on a cell phone. Only your cell phone carrier isn’t Verizon. You don’t get service everywhere, and sometimes your service cuts out right in the middle of an important sentence. You have trouble with the phone itself; you can’t turn up the volume properly so when ever you are in a noisy room the cell phone noise and the room noise get mixed together. You wish you could just talk to the person face to face then you could get clues about their meaning by their body language and face expressions but you can’t. Even worse some times you miss someone’s call because you were talking to someone else. They think you are ignoring them when really you were just involved in listening to someone else. You would get tired easily because you expend so much energy trying to listen to your cell phone. And occasionally there is a loud noise on the other end of the phone line that really isn’t that loud, but is so surprising that it scares and shocks you. Your phone, for some unknown reason, amplifies high pitched noises so you hear them better than all the other types of sound. There are nights when even though you aren’t talking to someone at the time, the static of your phone is so loud that it keeps you up.

I know that I try to stay off of meaningful subjects, but I just thought it would be interesting for you to see what I go through everyday because of my auditory processing disorder. When I really stop to think about it, it really does cause me some odd-ball effects, which most people don’t even realize I deal with. So take a moment and be thankful that you don’t have a “cell phone” forever attached to your head.


Cheers!

Your Literary Junkophile.


Amendment 1: I'm not trying to depress you or make you feel sorry for me, I just want you to know that I'm not ignoring you or not listening to you, I'm just being me.

Amendment 2: I'm feeling much better today, and I got a lot of homework done today.

Amendment 3: Don't forget about those clocks tonight!