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DeafBadger wrote this from a friend <quote> ".....If you need subtitles to understand the TV, you are deaf."<end quote> as part of larger reply in a different thread - it was part of the reply to newcomer Smokey...I saw that and picked out that part cuz I thought it was interesting for me but didn't want to take away the original thread.

It's interesting for me because I've been using the captions now for a few months and honestly for a variety of reasons am not sure what to personally I.D. as. Deaf people I know variously refer to me as hearing, or - losing her hearing. People's perceptions are different and that's fine.
I just figure out for myself too.
 
My brother and his family are 100% hearing and always use captions. They're not the only ones I know that does that.
 
I have read an article where a guy wanted to watch tv but was in the mood to listen to music. He used CC on TV and get to listen to music.
 
Depending on the show, I sometimes use CC when watching TV. I rented the movie "Brokeback Mountain" and had to use CC because no one spoke clearly trying to do southern accents. Glad I didn't see it in the movies.
 
I use CC as I sometime can not understand what a person said and the CC help me to fully understand the person. I really need this when watching the news as some reporters talk rather fast and I can't understand them. I hate it when the CC is not working on news station and I did not understand a few words.
 
Interesting quote. I'm always using captions, if there are some, but still I'm not sure where I actually do fit in. In Germany you don't really have this d/Deaf difference. It is more like, how much do you hear and do you know sign language. Therefore I'm HoH, but not really, because I normally interact with deaf people, but I'm not deaf, because I do hear something. Strange.
 
A family member became obsessed with how to label non-hearing people. Does deaf mean that you hear nothing? If you are HOH, you're fixed with HAs, right? People struggle with labels as they adust emotionally to hearing loss. Do what ever works for you and give yourself time to figure it all out.
 
Well, to give that quote some context, I should give some background.

I was 100% mainstreamed. I have severe-to-profound hearing loss.

He was mainstreamed up to grade 6 or 7, then he went to deaf school.

We are both from the same state. We both have pretty much the same kind of hearing loss.

So I was talking to him about what makes a HOH or deaf person? There's me, wholely mainstreamed, never part of the deaf culture until now.

There's him, mostly raised in deaf school, part of deaf culture.

Our hearing is nearly the same. It could have gone either way for either of us mainstream/deaf school.

It was an interesting discussion.

The way he sees it is... "If you need subtitles to understand the TV, you are deaf." I don't think he was talking about deaf/Deaf. I think he meant, how to define the nature of one's hearing loss.

I need subtitles. I'm deaf.
 
:ty: for adding more to that, DB - still is intriguing to learn more-
 
Unless I want to annoy the neighbors, I need subtitles. But I wouldn't call myself deaf...far from it.
 
rebeccalj said:
I need CC. Without them it is just :blah: :blah: :blah:
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All my friends use cc now. One lady enthusiastically informed me that she "understands the predicament" I am in by having Spanish captions with the sound off. :giggle:
 
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