[COMMENTARY] - Jaipreet Virdi, a historian of medicine, technology, and disability at the University of Delaware, writes that FDA's recent decision to make hearing aids available over the counter may not be the boon to those with hearing loss that it seems. Hearing aids that are not properly fitted or that do not meet a user's need, she warns, can cause frustration or even harm. Virdi also writes that marketing of these hearing aids will likely proliferate stereotypes and stigma associated with hearing loss.