Sometimes, but not always. Life, for the most part, is pretty good.
It means if you can speak orally you can not be labeled "deaf"
It means if you can speak orally you can not be labeled "deaf"
Hence, which has always been confusing to me! I've been deaf since age 14, but never stopped "talking", after being told by a teacher, that if I did, I would "forget how"......this was at a deaf school, and I was not allowed to sign in class.
So, in some cases, I've been labeled as a "hearie", since I'm oral and lipread, even tho' I'm totally deaf, for 50 years....Many, many times, deafies have asked "is she hearing?"
I dislike the "labeling"...I'm not HOH, not a hearie, I'm deaf, an oral deafie. I would not encourage anyone who is LD to stop talking, or going "voice off". I feel they would have an easier time communicating with hearies, using their voices, and learning ASL also (as I did).
Never really had a problem.....there is the occassional difficulty but I have always viewed difficulties as opportunities. Difficulty makes life fun that way.
It means if you can speak orally you can not be labeled "deaf"
For those of us deafies that were born deaf, have no speech and cannot lipread, I'm sure they will have much more difficulty in dealing with the hearing world....For those who are late-deafened, wear HA and can hear somewhat with them, CI's, and can lipread, some "understandable" speech seems it would be "less" difficult...
MY BULLSH*T meter is going mental in todays Deaf society yes can speak and be Deaf