You're hearing impaired, its not your fault. That doesn't change what kind of person you are. When depressed your friends should step up the most. This really chokes me up.

I had a friend who was in a serious accident and left quadriplegic. He lost most of his friends. He and I used to talk for hours about life and random stuff. He was still him, just physically disabled. Ironically our friendship ended when he made a comment about me being off my meds. People are hard sometimes.