Hi, I am a 29 year old hoh girl from Cali
I have been reading here for several months and keep wanting to reply to threads, so I figured I would introduce myself. I was born with bilateral sensorineural loss-moderate-severe in my right ear and severe in my left. Wore HAs for the first 9 years of my life before giving them up to pass as hearing...yeah that was a frustrating twenty years. I was mainstreamed in school and excelled, though I rarely knew what anyone was saying in the classroom. I just received a new pair of hearing aids-in blue of course-last month. It is the same love-hate relationship that I remember from twenty years ago. I love them for having conversations with friends and that is about it. I do like that my TV volume is cut in half, but I still need captions to understand what is being said. The HA's also make music cut in and out, and the audiologist said she cannot fix that. For everything else, I hate the darn things. Everything is too loud and causes overload. I do have both an auditory and a sensory processing disorder, which is probably why I cannot stand to wear them when walking around. I can sometimes stand to have them on in stores and on the bus, but not always. At least I can turn them off when life gets too loud.
So now, I kind of feel like I do not fit into either world. I have taken a semester of ASL, but that is a far cry from belonging to the Deaf world. But without my HA's, I am feeling more and more like a deaf person rather than a hoh person, like I do not fit in the hearing world either...ah this intro is a bit long, 
if you have made it this far.
I have been reading here for several months and keep wanting to reply to threads, so I figured I would introduce myself. I was born with bilateral sensorineural loss-moderate-severe in my right ear and severe in my left. Wore HAs for the first 9 years of my life before giving them up to pass as hearing...yeah that was a frustrating twenty years. I was mainstreamed in school and excelled, though I rarely knew what anyone was saying in the classroom. I just received a new pair of hearing aids-in blue of course-last month. It is the same love-hate relationship that I remember from twenty years ago. I love them for having conversations with friends and that is about it. I do like that my TV volume is cut in half, but I still need captions to understand what is being said. The HA's also make music cut in and out, and the audiologist said she cannot fix that. For everything else, I hate the darn things. Everything is too loud and causes overload. I do have both an auditory and a sensory processing disorder, which is probably why I cannot stand to wear them when walking around. I can sometimes stand to have them on in stores and on the bus, but not always. At least I can turn them off when life gets too loud. So now, I kind of feel like I do not fit into either world. I have taken a semester of ASL, but that is a far cry from belonging to the Deaf world. But without my HA's, I am feeling more and more like a deaf person rather than a hoh person, like I do not fit in the hearing world either...ah this intro is a bit long, if you have made it this far.
to AllDeaf forum. I had been mainstreamed during elementary and high school oral-only in the 50s and 60s. 
I grew up without ASL until I graduated from high school and learned to sign ASL from a Deaf Lutheran Church (I am Catholic). I was glad I did. I never look back at the old life I had. I moved on to the Deaf communities in different states in USA and now here in Canada. So gradually, you will have to adjust to your hearing loss and learn to be in the Deaf community or just be with us here on AllDeaf. Take one step at a time.