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I say call yourself what you like. I sometimes say I am deaf and sometimes say I am hoh but mostly I say I wear a couple of hearing aids. I enjoy not wearing them. I like the silence and am grateful to have the option of turning them off. I never wear them when i am driving, the wind noise among other noises drive me batty. And then I'll go shopping w/ them out and if I need to talk to anyone, I read their lips. If they talk to me and I am not looking, then they think I am a snob. Ah, well. I believe we have every right to turn them off when we want to because we CAN.
My mom and other people get mad at me when I react "inappropiately" because I didn't understand them in the first place. Other's think I am selectively hearing them when I, in fact, did not hear it right. I get in trouble a lot. What bugs me the most is that the hearing people can passively listen whereas deafies and hoh people can not do that. The only reason I did good in school was cuz I verified everything I heard was right!
Sorry, I am rambling....
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