How would you define ... ? :D

How would you define your hearing status ? ( multiple choices are possible )

  • Deaf

    Votes: 10 16.4%

  • deaf

    Votes: 20 32.8%

  • late deafened

    Votes: 4 6.6%

  • oral deaf

    Votes: 7 11.5%

  • severely/profoundly hard of hearing

    Votes: 14 23.0%

  • moderately hard of hearing

    Votes: 11 18.0%

  • slightly hard of hearing

    Votes: 6 9.8%

  • hearing

    Votes: 9 14.8%

  • other. please clarify

    Votes: 4 6.6%
  • Total voters
    61
audiogically profounding deaf,

but culturally fucked up

i dont fit in hearing world and niether the deaf world

undefineded deaf, and I hate it
 
deaf - always considered myself that before and after CI.
 
I consider myself Hoh/Deaf.
I'm profoundly deaf (+100Db) on my right and I have mild/mod flux loss on my left.

Although I am able to communicate orally in quite places, I'm more comfortable using ASL. I have ALWAYS felt more Deaf than "hearing", and have always valued ASL and Deaf Culture - it took me a long time (*and many conversations with many culturally Deaf people here) to come to the Hoh/Deaf "label" for myself ... but for me it really is the most accurate way to explain not only how I hear (or don't) but also how I think and see myself.
 
I wear 2 hearing aids, was hearing into my teens now almost no hearing at all in both ears.
But hey Im alive and kicking and thats all that matters to me.
 
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