@tyme 

Ok, so many questions, yes I'm 35, but I actually was told I needed them when I was 34 at my first hearing test.

1. How do I feel? 

I hated the idea, there are no ads with young people needing them, there's a lot of stigma about them being an old person thing. Once I got them they weren't as described, couldn't connect and stream audio to them. Once I see a really good hearing technician who program programmed them with modes it was much much better, driving mode, conversation mode and standard.

2. Why I need them?

I had multiple ear infections a year as a kid that my ears started rejecting the chest ear drops, to then be prescribed the expensive ones that my dad never wanted to pay for, so didn't. It eventually started affecting my hearing and doing damage. 

Wearing them was an extreme trigger for me in the beginning because all it did was remind me of why I need them, it's still hard, but not as bad as I have others in my life that have them too and the speech is less fuzzy. I don't wear them all the time but I do find them helpful. 

I like turning the volume down in shopping centres