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good question about those who are hoh...i, myself, am hoh....but grew up in a deaf family and asl was my first language....went to a regular public school, but i can hear and speak pretty well, and do use the phone....when i am among the deaf, i tell them that i am deaf....the reason why i do this is becuz i always felt the deaf push me aside....i feel they can accept me better when i say that...sorry folks, but thats me....if im with hearing people, i just tell them im hard of hearing and for them to speak directly to me...and also getting back to the deaf, i wont wear my hearing aid while with them, cuz they tend to tell me to ask them (hearies) something, and i dont want to do that...rather if i dont wear it, then they will not depend on me....i might get some lashings from u folks, but thats the way i did it for 50 something years....aint gunna change it...lol
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