Pickles by Brian Crane for September 25, 2014

And you can’t see without your hearing aids, can you, Opal?

Maybe Opal is a lip reader.

When was the last time we saw Muffins sitin Earl’s lap?

For some of us, this is very true: If we can’t see clearly (ie: no glasses) we can’t concentrate on the spoken word, either. Go figger..

I could smell that one coming…

Didn’t they used to make hearing aids built into horned rimmed eyeglasses?

That was my mother. She did the same thing.

I’m that way. It’s amazing how much we all lip read. Those of you with perfect vision just don’t realize it.

Inverse Italian

Opal is a lip reader. Who knew?

haha, been there done that.

I once had a pair of glasses that my wife said were tasteless. I couldn’t wear them when I ate.

We actually all lip read, most people just don’t realize it until the hearing starts to go.

This is so true!

As I have gradually lost my hearing, I have learned to lip read without even realizing I was doing it. I can be looking at someone, understanding every word, and if I simply shut my eyes, if seems as if they are mumbling.

True fact! It’s hard to pay attention to what someone is saying when you’re trying hard to see them. I have the same problem if people are talking to me while they’re in front of a window with strong sunlight coming through so all I can see of them is a silhouette.

My Grandma had her hearing aid built into her glasses, so she quite literally couldn’t hear without them.

The high frequencies are the first to go. Consonants are made with the tongue against the teeth, so they’re higher pitched. Vowels are made deep in the throat; they’re lower pitched. So when you start losing your hearing, you hear people talking but they’re mumbling because pieces of the words are missing. “Hearing” becomes “ee..e”

I think her eyesight isn’t the only thing that’s going …

Are her senses reversed?

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YES!!!!

What? She’s scanning for the name with her Google glasses!

I totally have that problem too, Opal, and I’m much younger than you ;-)

Uh oh, Opal has been into the LSD again.

Sight and hearing are actually linked in ways we’re just finding out. And it’s nothing to do with age or lip reading, but the way our minds are designed.