In my town, I'm defined as HOH by the local deaf org - the reason for this is because they differentiate between those who were raised oral/mainstreamed and those who were raised deaf school/ASL by defining the former as HOH and the latter as Deaf. For them, it's a cultural classification, not a determination of one's actual hearing levels.
So, even though I consider myself very much as deaf, I'm classified as HOH because of my upbringing. Doesn't bother me at all.
It's my audiogram that's the ultimate definer of my actual hearing levels and no matter what label someone else uses for me, it doesn't change the fundamental truth which is that I'm profoundly deaf.
