CHAPTER 52:

"Whats the difference between 'hard-of-hearing' and 'deaf'?"

Although, I am not part of the group of people who try and complicate the deaf community I will agree that the deaf community is complex. The classifications that the deaf community has given to themselves is numerous. There is so much now to deafness and the classification of the level of deafness a person has, perhaps because over time people have asked questions that could be answered without going into great detail. Unfortunately that does not happen very often. When I think about the words "hard-of-hearing" I think of a person who has trouble hearing certain things but deaf never crosses my  mind. When I think about the word deaf I think of a person who was either born without the ability to hear anything or over time hearing loss has completely disappeared.