Dear Piaf,

I wanted to yell this at you in session, but I wanted to yell it while also throwing my glass of water against the wall, too, and that’s like a 9 on your anger scale, so I didn’t.

You only have to deal with the frustration and exhaustion and difficulty of my hearing for an hour a week. I have to deal with that same frustration and exhaustion and difficulty every moment spent in the company of another human being. So I’m sorry, but I’m not sympathetic to how you feel about it. That was a really hurtful, insensitive, and self-absorbed comment.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry that later you asked me about your comments, “was that rude?”

ATAT