Ah, this make it more clear what you were asking.
A: Hearing people who suffer significant hearing loss are often in some level of denial.
B: don't see a benefit to learning ASL because their friends and family will not make the effort to learn it too.
C: don't have or want to develop new Deaf friends that will make them feel more "disabled" by being a constant reminder they can no longer hear, hence why they are now using ASL to talk to someone else...
D: people fear the unknown.
E: All of the above!
This is also why we often see people with severe to profound hearing loss refer to themselves as hearing impaired or hard of hearing and deny that they are deaf...
