EvilleApplePie
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I'm a 31 year old hearing woman. When I was in middle school my best friend was a deaf boy whose parents were trying to mainstream him. His interpreter taught us all signed english so that we could communicate with him better and he was thinking of getting an implant. Awhile later in high school he decided he did not want the implant and decided to go back to deaf school. I was happy for him but we soon lost touch after I moved far away. This was before the ease of video chat. Over the years I've thought of him often and the window I had into the Deaf community through him and as an adult suffering with increasing and serious hearing loss I've started learning ASL. I don't wish to have to wear hearing aids or have implants as my career does not require me to be able to hear and my ears don't like things to be inside of them. I would, however, love to make some d/Deaf friends and learn more about the culture. The more I read about it the more I love it and want to be part of it as much as possible.