# @mama.hu.hears on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DVLyU--kULn
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/57487069-mamahuhears-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/85cfaf2642.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-02-25T14:25:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dr. Michelle Hu•Hard of Hearing•Audiologist (@mama.hu.hears) — https://gondola.cc/mama.hu.hears

## Caption

International Cochlear Implant Day makes me reflect a new chapter in my life where I stopped trying to make my cochlear implant invisible.

On our first date, I grabbed his hand and placed it on my coil site. Not as a test. Not as a joke. But as a declaration.

This is me. All of me.

When I was a kid I was proud, I showed off my devices. But then in college and even graduate school when I was single I was self-conscious. For years, I hid it. Adjusted my hair. Downplayed my deafness. Softened the language. Then, I decided I wasn’t going to lead with apology anymore.

Cochlear implants are technology. They are tools. Not cures. But they can also mark moments of identity, courage, and self-acceptance.

If you wear one, love someone who does, or are navigating your own journey - you don’t have to shrink.

This is you. All of you.

#InternationalCochlearImplantDay

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