Annette Crosbie, the Bafta winning actress, has agreed to lend her name and support to AFD Annette has personal experience of deafness and says:
“I have been quite deaf in both ears for a decade now. If I take my hearing aids out, I can't hear my dogs barking right next to me. Unfortunately, this is often misinterpreted as rudeness or grumpiness. I'm sure a lot of people I've unwittingly come across in life have thought ‘what's her problem?’ because I haven't actually heard something they've said to me.”
Annette refuses to feel stigmatised by her hearing loss and says she hates the notion that there should ever be any stigma attached to wearing hearing aids. She is happy to so anything she can to raise awareness and lending her patronage to AFD will certainly help us to do just that.
