Meet Bottesini!
She can tell you all about the "'I've been there, I've done that, so I know better than you" ex-oral deaf converted into deaf community experience.
That is the best part about AD! Gotta love the different perspectives here.
P.S. I suggest talking to the person him/herself to draw your own conclusions about them rather than relying on one's cloudy perspectives of others (like mine above 
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