Carolina Sandoval's Daughter Talks About Her Disability

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Although he never suffered bullying because of it, for Bárbara Camila, the first-born of the journalist from Suelta la sopa (Telemundo) Carolina Sandoval, it has not been easy growing up with a hearing disability that has forced her to use hearing aids in her ears.

“I have never been a victim of bullying, thank God for my hearing aids, but the children did ask me 'what is that you have in your ears? you can hear?' In other words, they did not do it for evil but because they did not understand it. I understood that I did not listen well compared to other people but I did not know how to explain it to people,”said the 15-year-old teenager during a recent live broadcast made by her famous mom through Instagram.

I was thinking 'why me? Why is this happening to me?' I know that maybe in comparison to other things it is nothing and thank God I have the technology and the help of the doctors to be able to at least be close to the level of all of you who can listen well,”he said.

Because she has forty percent less hearing than other people, the young woman recognized that she needs to see the face of the person she is talking to in order to understand everything she says.

“It's not that I'm having trouble paying attention, but if I'm not looking you in the face and you're talking to me, maybe something is going to go away, I'm not going to hear you perfectly. I like to see people's faces, to see their eyes, their lips. I like to connect their words with their lips and see what they are saying”, explained Bárbara Camila.

The young woman, who has close to 300,000 followers on Instagram, also spoke of the fear caused by the future since she fears, for example, that when she is living alone she will not be able to hear the fire alarm.

“There is going to be a time in life that I will be living alone, so whether it is a house or a building, what happens if there is a fire? Let the fire alarm go off and don't listen to it [for example] because it happened to me. I have lived in apartments that sound the alarm and I do not hear it and when I am asleep it is even worse because I am a person who is sound asleep. If I can't hear well when I'm awake, imagine when I'm asleep. So those things do scare me, but I know that with the support of my family, as always they are there for me, I can handle that calmly, with wisdom and intelligence,”he asserted.