
09/13/2025
Hearing Loss Can Be Your Super Power 🦸🏻♀️
Loved Comedian and TV Host Stephen Colbert is deaf in his right ear 🦻
Stephen has had a full life, but not one without tragic events that forever shaped him in ways he never imagined.
When Stephen was young he had to have surgery to remove a tumour on his eardrum, this surgery left him deaf in his right ear.
This diagnoses also changed his future plans of becoming a marine biologist as he can’t go underwater. This moment turned out to be a blessing and changed his life for the better and he didn’t even know it.�Stephen’s diagnoses set his life on a new and unexpected path.
On top of his life changing diagnosis, Stephen tragically lost his brothers and dad to a plane crash in 1974. This event, yet again rocking his life and changing the person he was, while shaping the person he would now become.
No one knows what life will throw at them, but sometimes behind every hurdle is a super power that you didn’t know you had!��Hearing Loss doesn’t have to hinder your life if you face it, focus on your health, and join the HLC Avengers 🦸🏻♀️🦸🏼♂️
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