If you like being Deaf, that's great, but Deaf people and their culture aren't any more "real" than anyone else. You're making it seem like Deaf people aren't also Trekkies and don't follow sports or get involved in those clubs and forums, and I'm sure just Deaf people participate in and enjoy those things just as much as hearing people do. Hearing people aren't all alike, just as all Deaf people aren't all alike.
You say you wouldn't want to change your culture and give up your identity. Well, I got hearing aids a couple years ago and would probably seek out groups like Walk4Hearing in the future because I don't want to give up my hearing culture or identity, either. But my preferring to hear doesn't mean I think you or any Deaf person should prefer to hear. I respect that you don't want to, and it's good that you have friends and a community you feel you belong to.
One thing that Deaf people sometimes may forget or not realize is that for people who've experienced hearing and lose it, it's something they miss not only because they used hearing to communicate, but because they simply enjoyed hearing certain sounds and they wish they could hear them again: music, birds singing, children laughing, waves on the beach, leaves crunching on the ground in the fall, the wind, loons calling on a lake at sunset, the sound of a loved one's voice, and many, many other things. Hearing is so much more and so much richer than only being able to have a verbal conversation with someone else.
