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I hadn't realized it until drphil clarified here, but it looks like his use of DEAF is distinguished from the commonly used deaf vs. Deaf as an indicator of what side of the cultural line one is on.  Maybe he's defining himself not as  an ASL-using Deaf person, and not as an 'oral-thinking' deaf person who uses residual hearing or speechreading, but as something outside that sociological construct.  It's actually a pretty interesting shift in thinking about what deafness means (or what DEAFness is) to an individual.