I had the same experiance and I'm hoh. I have great speech and very good hearing with hearing aids. Yet, I can only interact with hearing people at a superfical level. Hell, I'm not even close to my hearing parents at ALL. (they are SO fucking CLUELESS....they're nice and well meaning and all....but they're clueless about what it was like for me growing up in this Stepford Wives hellhole where everything had to be superfically "perfect". Heck I have friends who were "different, meaning that they were seen as freaks here, but in a diverse place they'd be seen as "normal", who say that our hometown is so freaking cookie cutter!)
I was the kid that EVERYONE knew.... I mean when you're the only dhh kid in a sea of hearing kids, of course EVERYONE knows you. But the thing is......again it's being on the edge of a community. Not being a REAL part of it at ALL! I graduated from a mainstream hearing high school, as a solotaire ...I spent ten years in that system (moved when I was in 2nd grade) and I can't say I ever had a real friend from those years.
Most of my "friends" back then were basicly of the " You like soccer? I like soccer. Let's be best friends" sort of thing., It took me until I was fourteen and attended an extraordinary nary hearing summer camp. for me to make my first real friend. I still don't have a lot of very close friends 
I also am still SUPER insecure about stuff relating to friendship...ie 'do they really like me? Are they just pretending to like me?" God, I remember overhearing crap like " Oh I'm just "friends" with her b/c I feel sorry for her?!?!?!
