oh I agree!! I was always getting frustrated with reading lips, because of how much I missed, but since getting involved in the Deaf community and learning sign language, I feel like I'm home, and I understand so much more in Sign Language than I do with spoken language. Its really hard for me on the phone, because I have a problem actually understanding spoken language without reading lips, but ASL has made me feel wonderful!!! I am no longer dreading going profoundly deaf, I know I will be perfectly fine (part of me wishes my residual hearing would just hurry up and run away)!!
