Huh. Very interesting thread! I've been that way myself, largely isolated socially. For the better part of my life back in school, I had a few deaf friends that eventually moved out well before I went to my first college. Didn't have alot of interaction with hearing people, though what little I did have with them were friendly. All this changed when I went to RIT, it was amazing to see so many deaf people signing to each other! Afterwards, its been back to square one since moving out to Hawaii from Iowa. There's a deaf club in Hilo, but that's practically the opposite of where I live, too far away.