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What Ambrosia and the rest of us have said about the issue being communication (not oppression) doesn't prove your point. I've been hoh my whole life and I've never been told I couldn't do something because I'm hoh. When the hearing in my "good" ear got bad enough so that it was more difficult...

It's good to know that there's a Deaf community in Manchester (even if it's a small one). Thank you for telling me. I live in a rural part of NH that is a little over an hour from Manchester. As I said, there are a few hoh people in my family, but all of us went to the public schools in our...

I don't think anyone told him he wasn't entitled to his feelings. His feelings are as valid as anyone else's, and he can believe what he wants to, but that doesn't mean that his assumptions/beliefs about all hearing people are true. I think some of us are frustrated because he keeps saying the...

Fear of oppression isn't the only explanation; just because that's the only explanation you are able to come up with doesn't mean other reasons don't exist. People have told you in this thread and in other threads what their other reasons are. It's completely understandable that you don't...

I agree, too, that hearing people being worried about losing their hearing isn't about oppression. I'm hoh and have been hoh my whole life, and I don't want to become deaf and lose the rest of my hearing, but that has nothing to do with fearing being oppressed if I become deaf. How other people...

I'm hoh and my hearing has been getting slowly worse over the years, but I still have quite a bit of my hearing left and I've never personally known anyone who is Deaf, so it's not really a choice for me. I think even if I lose my hearing completely I will always live in the hearing world...

Several people in this thread have been explaining to you why it's such a big deal for hearing people to lose their hearing. If I as a hoh person was to lose my hearing completely, I would have a very difficult time with it - at least at first - even though I've been hoh all my life. I'd miss...

I'm hard of hearing, and was likely born that way, although there's no way of knowing for sure because I was born before newborns were tested for hearing loss. My hearing loss wasn't discovered until I went to first grade (age 6). Until my hearing was tested when I was 6 years old, no one -...

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Hello, everyone. I've lurked for a few months now, and finally decided to introduce myself. I've had unilateral severe sensorineural hearing loss for as long as I can remember, and a few years ago I got tinnitus in both ears and began losing some hearing in my other ear, too (Now I have a...