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Originally Posted by Rainshower77
Sorry, even if you are just kidding. I know I will be old too one day. Elderly is something I picked up from church. Which usually mean someone who is wiser.
it just that people will think my hearing must not be so bad, if they related my hearing loss to hearing loss due to age. And then I get frustrated that they don't seem to understand and is using the wrong method because it is the same method they use on people who lost their hearing due to age but had many years of hearing.
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I can understand this, with the term not being specific, like how I am with 'blind' and 'low vision'.
Hopefully one day people will be smart enough to realize it is (supposed to be) a technical term and stop abusing it. When I met my online deaf friend, she called herself 'deaf', and I had the sense to ask 'to what level?' and she explained it to me. She is my best online friend now.