Although I talked about getting the Apple Air Pods, I know they are price wise outside of the realm of a lot of people.
Most people.
At $300 with 2 years of Apple Care, that is almost three weeks income for a working person.
Or a year’s income for an author.
Which is exactly what it was for me.
A year’s writing income.
Otherwise, I could not have afforded them, and I would not be able to hear and verbally communicate with others at this point.
Or likely ever.
If the Air Pods, at $300 are three weeks, or a year’s income, the over $2,000 for hearing aids that do not have noise cancellation are well, almost half of my annual income when I attempted to work.
If I had known about my hearing, vision, EDS, autism, and Celiac then, maybe with proper treatment, and accommodations, I could have found a job I could have done online and from home. Safely.
None of that was known.
I did have a worthless college degree. Like everyone I knew. Jobs that wanted masters degrees, only paid a nickel above minimum wage, if that, when we all graduated from college.
It’s not that I didn’t try. I did.
My body said no.
And again no.
Now, I have no choice except to listen to it.
Even if I would have liked to do other things.
Even writing, and writing admin, take ten times as long as they should. It is difficult.
And slow.
Glacially slow.
With no money to spare for nonessentials.
Only the occasional treat of a bag of peppermints to keep me from coughing.
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