{"id":79723,"date":"2024-07-02T12:20:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T09:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armenia23.ru\/?p=79723"},"modified":"2024-07-02T12:20:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T09:20:33","slug":"a-28-year-old-man-is-moved-to-tears-after-hearing-for-the-first-time-video-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armenia23.ru\/?p=79723","title":{"rendered":"A 28-year-old man is moved to tears after hearing for the first time. Video below"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a cochlear implant, a guy in Los Angeles experienced intense emotions after hearing voices clearly for the first time. <\/p>\n<p>Aric Hoffmann suffered meningitis at the age of six months, which left him with hearing loss from the time he was a boy. <\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old was previously limited to lipreading and sign language as a means of communication. His hearing grew worse with age, necessitating a cochlear implant. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/armenia23.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_7224-203x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armenia23.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_7224-203x300.jpeg 203w, https:\/\/armenia23.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_7224.jpeg 358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before I had my implant, I found that interacting with people was the hardest since I occasionally had trouble understanding what other people were saying. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m now so excited to hear people talking so clearly, without asking to repeat and be able to keep the conversations going. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had never heard the sounds so clearly, and I was overwhelmed, crying, and very happy to hear them.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I sensed that a deeply emotional chapter in my life had started. His audiologist asked him how he was feeling, <\/p>\n<p>and you can see the tears welling up in his eyes in the video below. &#8220;I attempted to articulate my feelings through words, but they refused to flow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/armenia23.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_7223-233x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armenia23.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_7223-233x300.jpeg 233w, https:\/\/armenia23.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_7223.jpeg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aric had a plan to visit Disneyland, one of his favorite locations, right after receiving his implant on May 31st.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was astounded to hear tropical noises and mechanical birds in my implants as the Walt Disney Tiki Room show began. <\/p>\n<p>The entire concert was enjoyable to listen to, and it opened my eyes to what I had been missing. 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