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My parents called me Hearing Impaired since I was born. I enrolled to mainstream school. Teachers called me hearing impaired and other students. When I joined to Deaf School. I found it out there is many deaf and hard of hearing. Nobody mention about hearing impaired. I asked my mom "Which is deaf or hoh do I have?" She said deaf. I am wearing hearing aids to hear. I'm still deaf.
The hearing parents with hearing impaired children. They didn't like to mention about deaf. They are being deny about their children are deaf or hard of hearing. They aren't ready for anyone to know about their children.
Same thing with my cousin. I found it out her son is deaf at age 5 months old. I tried to call her. She hang up on me. She wasn't ready for anyone to talk her about her son. She is calling her son hearing impaired. When I asked her how many is your son's percent deaf?? I said that word "Deaf" for test on her. She got angry! She said her son has 90% hearing impaired. She said if hearing tube isn't work and get him a CI! She walked away. She don't want to learn sign language to communicate. I did apology to her for offend her. It was happened last 5 years ago.
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