watched 'Switched at Birth' on Netflix (wasn't my idea, wife was hogging the TV, I got sucked in); it was 'aight I guess. But my point is: yeah there's a lot of things we perceive to be petty that are apparently a part of living with hearing loss.
I know the show is a SHOW, but still - one kid got mad at his (born deaf) father for wanting to get a cochlear implant.