I not talking about losing the hearing world I talking losing out on learning in school , I miss out a lot and then was send to the reject class and given work that was
below my grade so I could 'pass' , I never had to write a book report or read poems in Jr. high b/c I was in the reject glass . So went I was went to regular high school
and given work at regular grade I had no fountain to build from . So being HOH was huge lost in getting decent education and I there wasn't and deaf community around me when I was growing up and if there was I wouldn't fit b/c I never learn ASL my dad would never had allowed that !