kuntrykyd
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I have been referred to recently as a "late deafened adult"......I am in my (ouch!!) early forties now.... but have had a hearing loss of 60db at age 3, and it spiraled slowly down from there, to where, the past 10 years, it is in the profoundly/severe deaf range in the 90's and now into the 100's......having been helped greatly by hearing aids since I was a toddler, I was able to have my speech corrected and learning to lipread by the early elementary years.
Someone referred to me as "late deafened", and truly, I thought I had been pretty much deaf all my life.
At what point do you really call yourself deaf?
Someone referred to me as "late deafened", and truly, I thought I had been pretty much deaf all my life.
At what point do you really call yourself deaf?