Thank you very much for the warm welcome!
I really wish I wasn't raised hearing. The other day my husband and I got into a discussion and we agreed that since hearing loss degenerates due to age, maybe in ten years my hearing will be so much worse..... perhaps, now is the time my husband and I should learn ASL.
My husband thinks if I get good enough, I can have a career as an ASL interpreter instead of trying to be an accountant (what I am currently studying), I do not know. Growing up, I hated the idea of pigeon holing myself into something. Just because I am deaf, doesn't mean I should get deaf jobs. Just because I'm good at ballet, doesn't mean I should be a dancer. Just because I love to draw, doesn't mean that I should be an artist. Etc.
I was always the type to do something different. Like my brother, he's an athlete at heart, and a genius.... his dream was to be a firefighter, fire fighting has nothing to do with sports or smarts (okay, only some part of it). My dream was to be a vet, that had nothing to do with my being deaf or artistic! 
But hey, life threw us lemons. I ended up graduating with an Art degree, my brother ended up not being able to finish fire fighting school and is now working as a pool man. My husband is a genius, wanted to make games by programming them, that didn't happen and now wants to be a green energy scientist. Life's weird like that 
Maybe I should think on being an ASL interpreter (if I can) after all....