The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2024-12-18 23:14:05.

Original Title: TIL Beethoven kept his hearing loss a secret. He once wrote(but never send) a letter to his brother confessing it and explained that people mistakenly thought he was antisocial: he longed for human contact but became a recluse out of shame for his condition and all this made him contemplate suicide