Thanks guys. I was just curious. So you're saying that, even though I am medically Hard of Hearing, I can still technically be culturally deaf? The thing is, when you tell someone "I'm hard of hearing" you get the old people treatment. Where the hearing person will sit there and mouth everything super big, and yell at you basically. But the word "hearing" in the phrase "hard of hearing" makes them think you can hear. Normally if they ask, or if I have to get them to repeat themselves a few times, I say "I'm deaf, and I lipread." instead of "I'm hard of hearing, and I lipread." is this okay to do? Last time I told someone I was hard of hearing, it was a teacher. they assumed I didn't need closed captioning and turned the volume up to where the rest of the class was covering their ears and I still couldn't hear the movie. O.o and it happens a lot when I say "Oh hey I'm HoH."
