Yeah I was thinking I can't really answer this.........I'm still pretty new to profound deaf, up until a few months ago I could at least hear myself talk without my hearing aids, nothing else but still......I don't know if that was really with my ears....but no more, nothing.
It's odd really, I know I'm deaf, I tell people I'm deaf, my family thinks of me as deaf. A few months ago my sister posted on facebook that she's grateful for facebook for helping her keep in touch with her deaf sister. They don't use the phrase Hoh for me. But I don't really feel like fundamentally changed. My identity didn't through an overhaul because I went deaf, the only difference is I can't hear. But yeah I guess there's some ambiguity there.
I don't know quite how to explain how others may think of me. They'd think of me as deaf, or Hoh because I can and do get by with my hearing aids. But I wonder how well I would do with them if I had been born with the loss I have now. I think I might be like others here, I don't think I'd recognize the speech sounds enough to piece together what I'm hearing. If that makes sense, I think it might just be noise. I don't think people talking to me really understand how much I'm missing sometimes. Anyway......I don't think many hearing people would separate it quite like that, hearie/deafie, like it came with a different mindset or identity. They just don't think about deafness the way you guys do. See I'm still doing it, I'm deaf, but don't quite fit with either group, but since I do still rely on what little I can hear, I guess in ways I still think of myself as hearing as well.
This is confusing me Grummer, good question 
