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Originally Posted by shel90
Just out of habit when my deaf friends and I talk about both communities that we call it the Deaf world or the hearing world. We never really think too deeply about the term "world". I think it is used loosely most of the time within the Deaf community.
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Yes, we are so use to being Deaf and communicate with the Deaf communities that we are comfortable to be in the Deaf world than to be in the Hearing world.
Of course, we have to deal with the hearing world that it is not comfortable for us because we have to struggle and trying to understand hearies. It is just hard for us trying to please the hearing people and be like them. The word "world" is that we are deaf in our
Deaf world only. There are some of the Hard of Hearing people who have mild to severe hearing loss who might be comfortable in the hearing world and I think they are happy to be in their
Hearing worldbecause they like to hear the sound of music and trying to listen to people on television without caption(ugh, lipreading is not that easy, otherwise Sue Thomas who use her skill in lipreading in her career on the law enforcement FBI had to read lips perfectly which I think it is a grog or baloney). If HOH can lipread one hundred per cent which indicate that HOH can hear pretty good along with lipreading. Being in the Deaf world is a lot better than Hearing world. Everyone is different in their preference of which worlds you want to be in like Hearing planet or Deaf planet. It would be nice if both hearing and HOH signs and let us Deafies be who we are without pressure to get us fix.
