Deaf vs Hard of Hearing - What's the Difference? [CC] 

You speak better than 99.9% of the population.

Agreed with you especially on the last part. Saying "hard of hearing" doesn't allow full hearing people to understand the full scope of each person's problem. Been hard of hearing all my life, and still haven't quite met anyone who has been able to understand it fully and adapt.

So relatable. After years of experimenting I've taken to calling myself "legally deaf", as it seems to quickly imply to people that I'm way beyond hard of hearing but not stone deaf either.

You have excellent dictation

Traducción al español: 0:00 Hola amores, la verdad están cayendo granizos ahora mismo afuera, así que espero que no los puedan escuchar [Susurro: No sé si pueden o no] Bueno, muchas personas me han preguntado: "¿Eres sorda o tienes problemas de audición? '¿Qué?'". Comprendo, my voz es muy... precisa. Porque no me puedo escuchar a mi misma, no sé si estoy arrastrando la voz o no. [Espero que no esté arrastrando la voz], porque ocupo mucho tiempo tratando de pronunciar las cosas correctamente. *0:32* . Pero la verdad no sé cuál es la diferencia entre sordera y problemas de audición. 0:37 Cuando era bebé no podía verdaderamente escuchar muy bien. Tuve muchos problemas cuando era pequeña y luego tuve una operación en mi oídos. Mi madre recuerda estar leyéndome mientras estábamos sentadas en la sala de espera, ella estaba leyendo Winnie the Pooh [buen libro. Buen. Libro.]. Y ella tiene que verdaderamente gritar para que yo sepa qué estaba ocurriendo (en el libro)[ *tose* La verdad me acabo de hacer daños en mi propia voz]. Luego, más tarde, salí de la operación, y ella podía leerme como una persona normal sin la necesidad de gritar cuando ya había tenido dos o quizá tres operaciones, y eso significaba que por 10 años yo podía escuchar bastante bien, no perfecto, pero muy bueno. Así que memoricé todo el catálogo de las Spice Girls, si, si, puedo hacer los movimientos *01:31* Así que eso estaba bien, un nivel manejable, un nivel okay de bastante sorda. Pero cuando cumplí 15 y las cosas cambiaron pero no me di cuenta, porque, cuando te estás volviendo sorda, es bastante leeeeeento. Así que pensé que solo no me podía concentrar "No les puedo prestar atención a lo que mis profesores me están diciendo en clases". Y yo me sentaba al frente como una santurrona, pero igualmente no podía entrar en mi cabeza. E incluso con todos mis amigos, cuando estábamos en grupo y 02:14 todos hablaban y no tenía ninguna pista de lo que estaba pasando; y me ponía a fingir como: *02:23* "si, si, totalmente, soy parte de esta conversación", pero NO, no tenía idea. Lo cual es excepcionalmente aislador. 02:32 Pero después fui a la universidad y me di cuenta de que no importaba que tan duro lo intentaras no puedes manejarlo, si eres sordo y no tienes hearing aids (busquen una foto en Google) o no tienes un intérprete o no tienes esas cosas que transcribe el habla en un texto, estas en un ambiente completamente nuevo y eso te hace dar cuenta de cosas. Luego conseguí mis hearing aids, que son maravillosos [la verdad no los estoy ocupando ahora porque el granizo me estaba molestando demasiado]. En la universidad me ayudaron, tuve un intérprete: Ruthanne [¡quien es la mejor! y ella aún trabaja conmigo. De lo cual probablemente podría hacer un video: "¿Cómo en la Tierra puedes ser presentadora de televisión cuando no puedes escuchar cosas" *03:14* como "hola, tengo una pregunta... genial... (susurro) no me preguntes nada". Si la verdad no es así, la verdad soy un poco mejor en mi trabajo. 03:27 Así que, también hubo un momento en mi vida en el que tuve muchas primeras citas... primeras citas, gente, siempre primeras... Es difícil tenerlas cuando no puedes escuchar lo que la otra persona está diciendo, así que estaba teniendo citas con gente que había conocido en internet y siempre está ese momento incómodo: ¿Cuándo les dices que en verdad no puedes oír?. Generalmente lo hacía cuando llegaban [suave, lo sé]. Después conocí a Claudia (su esposa) y a ella no le importa my audición, simplemente nunca es un problema para ella, lo manejamos (risa) y bien. 04:06 Así que, volviendo a lo que estábamos hablando: ¿Sorda o dificultad para oír? . Sé que hay tres categorías: Sordo [con una 'D' (S) mayúscula], sordo [con una 'd' (s) minúscula] y dificultad para oír. ¿Cuál soy yo? . Bueno Sordo con la S mayúscula, esa es cultura sorda y sociedad sorda... es diferente para mí. Trabajo en un mundo oyente, todos mis amigos son oyentes, mi familia es oyente... Así que, lo googlié [porque esa es la respuesta a todos los problemas de la vida, obviamente] y sordo con la 's' minúscula es más como profundamente sordo, eso está muy lejos en esa escala, 'dificultad para oír' puede ser desde una pequeña manejable pérdida de la audición hasta una severa pérdida de audición. Pero el problema es que las personas oyentes, si les dices 'dificultad para oír', lo que ellos escuchan es 'sordera de una persona vieja', 05:10 "SOLO GRITA UN POCO Y ELLOS SABRÁN QUÉ ESTÁ OCURRIENDO", ese no es el caso, no. 05:19 Así que, 'sordo' para ellos es algo que abarca todo, para ellos significa cualquier persona con pérdida auditiva. Pero en el mundo sordo, si tú vives en un mundo oyente entonces eres "dificultad para oír". Así que, ¿cuál?... Siento que ninguno de los dos es correcto para mí, porque "sordo" [ no quiero ofender a nadie] , pero "dificultado para oír" implica un problema mucho más pequeño en el mundo oyente. Así que creo que debería decir "ensordecida", porque eso soy yo, ¿verdad?, "oyente" en el pasado, ¿Ahora?, no mucho. Esa es la tan alargada respuesta para esa pregunta (risa). Por favor denle like a este comentario para que la gente que habla español pueda verlo y mirar este video correctamente.

You have a beautiful voice.

It's funny that in BSL your sign for hearing is the same sign as deaf in ASL

You make me smile. Been very hard of hearing my whole life. 74 years and still here.

I tend to call myself 'hard-of-hearing' or 'hearing impaired'. I've had moderate-severe hearing loss as long as I can remember (like you, I've had multiple operations since I was a toddler but nothing helped much), but I never learned to sign or properly lipread - didn't even have hearing aids until earlier this year. To me, 'deaf' seems to imply more severe hearing loss than mine, to a degree where interpreters etc are more of a necessity. I find 'hearing impaired' tends to make people understand my hearing loss a bit better than 'hard-of-hearing' though, maybe because some people consider 'hearing-impaired' a more PC way of saying 'deaf'? It's certainly easier than saying "I'm deaf...but I'm not completely deaf. Like, I can hear you...on a good day...if I have hearing aids...and you're facing me...", at any rate :P

I really like hearing her work this out! I’m hard of hearing in one ear and growing up as hearing in a hearing world, it was hard for me to find my identity. I’m not deaf per say, but I have still have issues. And you can’t explain that to people who can fully hear, but you also feel like you don’t want to downplay or disrespect those who are actually deaf or Deaf. It took me forever to come to the conclusion that I was hard of hearing, and I’m so glad to see that she came up with her own label! That’s really empowering to see

I'm in my teens and my type of hearing loss mimics "old people deaf" so I use the label HoH (Hard of Hearing.) It's easier than saying that I have a tiny head and my eustachian tube refuses to develop and is very small, so it holds a lot of fluid. Then sound has trouble getting through to my brain. So I hear like your average 60-year-old, except once I hear the sound it then takes me an extra second or two to understand the sounds I am hearing, so for a bit words are just a jumble of sounds. It also gets a lot worse when I have a cold. You need to yell at me then. Or sign, but no one I know cares to learn it, because I'm supposed to grow out of it (I haven't.) I use HoH and then people say "I'm a bit deaf too sometimes." Because I'm young people assume I can't have that bad hearing loss, or I would say that I'm deaf.

I have Central Auditory Processing disorder. I am hearing but my brain screws up what I hear. It means I generally get no disability accommodations at all, and people just sit there while I struggle.

I like deafened! That makes sense to me, and might help people understand why you speak with the sounds of a hearing person, even though you lip read.

I grew up hard of hearing after 2 surgeries! I got my hearing aids and began to immerse myself in the deaf world and learned to sign so I totally get where you're coming from!

Saying hard of hearing to a hearing person really downplays the severity of your issue so I say deaf as well but if I was to talk to a deaf-er (lol) person I would say I'm hard of hearing... Sometimes I do say I'm hard of hearing but to sort of drive home my point about how bad my hearing situation is I tell them without my hearing aids I'd be deaf basically.

I’m hard of hearing, been all my life, and can’t hear at all out of my right ear. To me, my biggest issue is depth perception. In 31 now, but I remember my dad repeatedly honking the car when he came to pick me up from elementary school. Drove me nuts. I could kinda hear it, knew it was him, but had absolutely no idea where it was coming from!! 🤦🏼‍♀️

O failed my hearing test at school, so I have been watching videos on hard of hearing and deaf stuff and this channel helps soooo much

Thank you!!!! Our experiences are all different. There’s no one way to be deaf. I typically use “deaf” to communicate the severity of my hearing loss (profound), but sometimes I say “hard of hearing” with other deaf people to express that I use hearing aids and am verbal. I generally consider myself deaf and not hoh, though.

coming from a hard of hearing person, hard of hearing is when you can still hear, but can't hear certain sounds like an air conditoner running or a low person talking,

I have a friend who is technically hard of hearing, she can only hear very specific things without her hearing aids in. She switches between calling herself deaf and hard of hearing. I think her story is actually very similar to yours, but I'm not positive (she got hearing aids younger because she had them in high school). I can see why you wouldn't feel comfortable with any of the labels, really. I like how you describe it!

I'm HOH and I can't hear myself talk but I can hear others speak and your voice is amazing! I was just wondering if you had any tips on pronouncing things properly as sometimes I struggle? also you're very beautiful!x

My mom was extremely hard of hearing. Along with being legally blind from macular degeneration and having vascular dementia, it made communicating with her difficult. Hearing aides helped, but toward the end of her life, she wasn't able to process sounds in her mind to comprehend what I was saying about a third of the time. She was having frequent mini strokes, which only increased her confusion. She had a final major stroke in August. I elected to keep her at home, she was on hospice care by that time. She rallied enough to be able stay awake and have a nice long visit with our minister. The next day, she fell asleep and slept until the end.

Living life being hard of hearing is so cool but when I am at school it really hard to understand my friends but what you said in this video really opened up a new door in life for me thank you 😆

Thank you so much for making this! I'm hard of hearing, and I've been trying to navigate around with feeling like I don't belong in the community because of my hearing situation; likely deaf from birth in one ear (honestly my doctors have no clue), but having semi-decent hearing in the other.

I am HoH. I had severe ear infections since I was one and gradually became more deaf as I went through childhood and my teens. I experienced many of the same issues in school as you! I am 70%deaf in my right ear and 80%deaf in my left. I was taught ASL when I was 13 at a summer camp by a deaf friend and her hearing twin sister.

I could literally listen to your voice all day

Aww your personality is amazing! I just subbed :D

My son had 3 sets of tubes as a boy and has passed hearing tests since then. H turned 14 this year and all of a sudden his grades have plummeted. He doesn't understand his work. I'm getting his hearing retested asap! Thank you for this video. I can't believe I didn't think of it sooner.

Yes! I know that it’s a struggle for me to tell people I’m HOH and they’re confused as to what that means. I’m not completely 100% deaf, but I’m definitely not hearing. Being deaf is a spectrum almost, from how I see it. I can call myself both and my friends and family can call me either one they’d like. I think it’s easier for Hearing people to understand right off the bat if you tell them “oh, I’m deaf” and then explain later on ☺️

Just got my first hearing aids and this is the first video I'm watching with them. I love your videos and it's very nice to see and hear them for a change!

Sorry, but google is wrong. Ive been deaf all my life, and my whole life hearing people who would work with me (for my deafness) and deaf people both would tell me that it doesn't matter what you call yourself. Most hearing people have an ignorant view on it, a lot tend to think each term means something different, when in fact they dont. For example, I remember in my highschool I had a big argument with someone who claimed that I should only be saying I was hard of hearing, simply because I had hearing aids, because im not "actually deaf". Was very offensive imo, they were saying that I could only say I was deaf if I was profound. Im not even 'a little bit' deaf, but Im not profound. The reality is, all the terms mean you have some kind of hearing issues to some degree (or a lot); it doesn't matter which one you use. I say im deaf.

I love your videos! They're informative but easy to watch and I love how you explain things.

shes so pretty❤️ her style is just 😍 i want it

I am severe to profoundly deaf (mostly conductive) on my left side. I find myself telling people that I am deaf on one side or hard of hearing…and then I get people raising their voices at me. Thank you for sharing that! :)

Such ah tricky topic! Thanks for tackling it! I never know what to classify myself as I'm stuck in a weird middle. I'm 100% deaf in my left ear, but full hearing in my right. I can't hear certain frequencies at all and others are painful. Sometimes I hear people, sometimes I don't, and I lip read a lot. I can't hear voices behind me or pick out voices in a crowd (And I work in the film industry on set. HAH!). Some people's voice levels I just can't hear at all. Which unfortunately leads to many people thinking I'm ignoring them. I get yelled at alot at work for this. (to be fair, film stand-ins get yelled at a lot anyways. :P ) I don't wear a hearing aid though as, like you, my hearing loss was gradual. So I just got used to it. It feel like it would be really weird to hear out of my left ear now! So I usually settle on saying I'm "half-deaf" - people taking it more seriously than "hard of hearing", but it doesn't make people scoff in disbelief and dismiss me like if I say I'm "deaf."

I had chronic ear infections as a child (and still get them often as an adult) and as a result have about four different conditions in my ears and an audio processing disorder (because there was a period of time in which I was profoundly deaf and now my brain doesn't fully understand sound even if I hear it). I identify as Hard of Hearing because I live in the hearing world and get along well enough in itwhen my accessibility needs are met. But I also am getting a lot more involved in the Deaf community (learning to sign, attending Deaf events) and I'm dating a Coda. I tell deaf people that I'm hard of hearing and I usually just tell hearing people that I'm half deaf (because one of my ears works better than the other) that seems to help them understand my situation better. But they always want my whole life story and medical history when I tell them that because hearing people think only elderly people are HoH. It's so annoying!

You have the most soothing and eragent voice! Its almost like i can hear you talk forever!!

You’re English is so clear so I can understand what you’re saying even I’m Japanese!!!

Just found your channel and watching some of your older videos too. My mum is HOH she has hearing aids bit once she removes them she is completely deaf (well I say that but she can hear my big gob her words not mine) she has been HOH for over 50 years and has seen how much technology has changes over the years. Your videos are really good and clear to understand, keep them coming.

I'm deaf/hh. I wear a hearing aid in one ear. Deaf in the other. 100/75% loss. (100% left, 75% loss in right)

you are absoulty stunning omg

I'm having problems hearing so I'm gonna get checked for hearing loss or central auditory processing disorder. I'm bing watching your videos to calm my nerves. It'll be a while until I can actually go because financial stuff but I'm nervous already!

Got this video in my recommended so I just *had to* check it out! I'm hard of hearing on my left ear and deaf on my right ear. So overall I'm hard of hearing I guess? It's seriously hard to define and it's so individual! I've always been in the world of hearing people so "deaf community" is like a whole new world to me. I also have to say that you have really great voice and your pronounciation is so precise! I muted this video and I still could lipread in English which surprised me because English is my second language. Love your videos!

OMG when you signed Stop Right Now, I sang it out loud with you.

First it's great you have a understanding person in your life. I feel Lost between both worlds and it can be so sad some time.

I think the spectrum of deafness is quite interesting. Your channel, which I just stumbled upon today because of RU-vid's recommendation, really brought to my attention that the deaf community has quite a large spectrum. I was born with hearing in both ears that suddenly got worse for an unknown reason when I was about 12, when I finally got hearing aids. I actually find that I generally say that I am hard of hearing to purposely downplay the severity of my hearing loss, but this is due to the amount of information I actually understand without assistance. I live in the hearing world and don't feel like I have any right to claim I am part of the deaf community. My audiologist was surprised and mentioned that he was impressed; I understand what they estimated to be more than 75% of auditory information despite my severe (70-90 dB) hearing loss. Because of this, I never find myself saying that I am deaf, since there are people who have hearing loss and auditory processing issues much worse than mine. Thinking about it now, I don't think I would say I am "deaf" over "hard of hearing" unless I reach the technical classification of "Deaf" at a hearing loss of over 120 dB.

I've been "hard of hearing" since I was a young boy. I am 66 now. I've managed to function in the hearing world fairly well. Without HAs I am "moderate to profoundly deaf". With HAs I am told I can get up to "mild hearing loss". HAs have been a life saver to some extent, on the one hand, on the other....I don't fit into either World. Because of that I get the grief from the hearing world, and simply don't fit into the deaf world. I don't think either understand the STRESS that causes. I have often thought it would have been better to be either completely deaf, or have normal hearing. . At least Deaf I could have been amongst peers, or if hearing I could understand people who are wearing masks. Your diction is perfect LOL! Has far as I can tell. I guess I am trying to say I think the HOH in this world get the real sh*t end of the stick. It is what it is. I wish I could have found a better way to fit in. Thanks for the video. Oh did I say you are beautiful too? You are :)

Your voice is wonderful and very easy for me to understand as a HoH individual. Your voice is actually very pleasant to listen to 🥰

I very much relate to this because while I'm 99% certain I'm not Deaf in any of the ways that are commonly understood, I do have Auditory Processing Disorder which basically means that my brain pays too much attention to *all* the noise everywhere and so much like you, if I'm in a noisy environment trying to listen to people it's impossible because what they're saying is cancelled out by so much other noise meaning I can't process it. I don't know if that makes me hard of hearing in a sense but very relatable either way especially as, if someone started shouting at me *loudly and clearly!* I would be startled and then pained because shouting hurts. :D

im hard of hearing and wear hearing aids, and if someone else who is D/deaf or hard of hearing asks me ill say that i'm hoh but to any hearing person i just say i'm deaf/partly deaf beacuse that's the easiest way to get the message across without having to spend time explaining! :)

I totally agree "google"is the answer to all of life's questions.

I relate soooooo much! Only just found your channel and I LOVE IT! I hate describing myself as hard of hearing cos people just assume that is old people. Any services for the hard of hearing are always geared towards old people to. I'm always the youngest person at the audiologists. Even the nurses don't think it's me if I'm there with my mum, they always assume that she's the one there for the appointment rather than me. Because I still can't sign much whenever I ask people to speak up or tell them I'm deaf or hard of hearing they either look at me funny cos 'wait you're not old' or 'but you can speak so well' or 'oh yeah me too I'm totally deaf I don't listen to anyone'..... Not helpful. Sorry that was kinda long and probably didn't make a lot of sense I'm just very excited about your channel and that you're so young and your story sounds so much like mine! Squee! Off to hunt through your videos for hair styles that don't make my hearing aid rustle and whistle! XD Thank you!

in school i learned little d deaf just means medically deaf

I discovered your channel over the past year and have recently started checking out the older videos. Just wanted to say that I could literally hear the Spice Girls song you were doing the choreo to in my head and started dancing with you! It gave me so much joy :) thanks!

I have a processing disorder but people think I'm deaf. Basically, I can't understand what's said if there ANY background noise at all. Groups are a struggle but no one seems to are so I have no help. It's turned into lip reading the person who speaks clearest and the rest of them can go stuff it.

I'm HOH, when I was little I had extreme bouts of otitis media and had tubes until I was 11. My parents thought it was "fixed" but my hearing has progressively deteriorated again and although I can hear my own voice, I can't tell how loud I'm speaking, and if there's /any/ kind of background noise (AC unit, crowds, wind, machinery, etc.) it completely drowns out voices, like being underwater or having cotton balls stuffed in my ears. I don't really consider myself Deaf because I don't really participate in Deaf culture (I don't even know ASL!). I also can't read lips. I found your channel today and am so happy I did!

I honestly couldn't tell by the way you speak that you couldn't hear it. Fair play! I enjoyed your video. Imo x

This is amazing. I just discovered your channel and I love it. I'm hard of hearing and want to learn sign language. What was it like for you? Are you fluent, did it take you long to learn or did you learn it from a young age? Sorry if you've already covered this question, I'm still getting round to watching all your videos!!

It's really interesting when you explain how slowly deafness comes on. When my own hearing difficulties started, I was in my late teens early twenties. Later on, in my mid-twenties, I got very very sick and ended up having several chronic illnesses that I will live with until I die. Funny enough, when I started going on medications to dull nerve pain, I started seeing change in my hearing impairment. I wasn't feeling pain anymore but I also wasn't struggling as much to hear. My hearing issues came as a result of an auditory processing issue and somehow or another, through some strange fluke of the universe, I ended up not needing my hearing aids as much anymore. I ended up not having as much trouble distinguishing a speech from background noise. I still have to use captions on almost everything but now, you would never know that I was ever anything but hearing. Part of me, went through a deep depression when this happened. I probably sound strange to a lot of people. But I was a happy and joyful member of my deaf community. I was a sign language teacher for goodness sakes. When I no longer struggled with my hearing, it was like losing this huge part of my identity. That was very hard for me for several years. It felt like my entire identity had to shift and I had to re-find myself.

Clap. Clap. Clap!!! Your attitude is amazing Jessica!! Thank you once again for another great video!!

I know the difference. "Deaf" means "little or no hearing." But "hard-of-hearing" means you can hear, just not very well. I would consider myself "slightly" hard-of-hearing. Tinnitus makes it difficult to talk on the phone (which I've always hated doing, anyway). Asperger's may also be the root of a "processing" issue. I can "hear" words, but sometimes they don't quite get through. Oddly, though, I hate background conversation, because the slightest sound would distract me from whatever I'm doing. It's a paradox, to be sure, but it drives me up the wall. I never learned how to study until I got out of noisy cattle-pens (i.e., "school"), and found a quiet environment.

I had to sit at the front too!!! And I had an fm system that allowed me have the teachers voice go into my aids! So annoying in elementary school when the fm system was a big speaker and everyone heard the teachers voice twice haha now a days it’s so high tech and fancy! It goes right to my aids!!

You speak better than most

Just wanna tell you I really enjoy your videos sis, you are such a adorable and charming human being, your voice, accent and pronunciation are beautiful, I am your fan from overseas, I am actually learning English from you.

I have moderate hearing loss, so I refer to myself as Hard of Hearing because with my hearing aids my hearing is ok (depends on the situation) but without I struggle to hear most words. There is a lot I can hear just not that well, like I can hear a shower but it’s muffled and stuff like that. The NCDS refers to it as being ‘moderately deaf: and even refers to people with mild hearing loss as ‘mildly deaf’. I guess it depends on the person, because I definitely don’t feel comfortable referring to myself as deaf because I feel like I would be lying and giving hearing people the wrong impression of what deafness really is.

Thanks for clearing it up for me, I am deafened too

Thank you for the explanation , it helps .I totally get what you say about peoples response when they`ve been talking. To be less than half of a two way communication is frustrating , more so if it`s important . I will make this observation too by reading the comments that people who have been isolating themselves in their own quiet world tend to be deep thinkers & very articulate with their words . Understanding through solitude .

I only have 12% hearing in both ears so without my hearing aids, I can't hear anything at all. So most of the time, in the morning before I put my hearing aids on, my family and I are signing. It's weird being sort of caught in the middle of both worlds.

Your channel is amazing! You are such an amazing person and you deserve more people to watch your videos. Well done for your accomplishments!! ❤❤ XXXXX

Oh.. and I'm a rubella syndrome baby. My mom caught rubella when she was five months pregnant with me. This happened during the rubella epidemic of the sixties. (German measles for this who don't know what rubella means)

Its really annoying when people yell because I still dont have a clue of waths going on and then I start feeling intimidated from the yelling also the loud yelling can be really stressful (like most loud noises) and then I just panick

I am Hard of Hearing. I have mild to moderate hearing loss. However, it was something I dealt with all my life. So, I got used to the idea. It's not really hard to cope with when you don't know what it's like to have 'normal hearing'. Although, little things about it really bothers me. Such as the worry of having to ask someone to repeat something 90,000 times...it's really frustrating. Especially, when they say, "Oh, nevermind, it's nothing."

I'm hard of hearing, and it's a bit strange because I belong in the hearing world but the hearing world don't "want" and "understand" me... if I can't hear it's like "you don't pay enough attention" "are you deaf or what?" (like it's a bad thing) or people won't repeat what they just said... it's hard to find movies with subtitles in the cinema, in bars I struggle a lot so I'm very isolated sometimes... And it's hard... sometimes I wished I was deaf so I would have a community to relate on, but hard of hearing is not a community cause we are in the hearing world ... I have hearing aids but I don't wear them because I always feel either ashamed or that people will think I'm deaf and will not try to communicate with me...But watching your videos alongside other deaf and hard of hearing youtubers is helpful and few weeks ago I found the "strength" to take my HA out of my bag in front of people I didn't know during a seminar I could not hear properly (cause the room being small they didn't think about taking a microphone... obviously...) and I wore them during the whole thing which was super helpful of course... Thanks to you for being visible and speak about it. It really does help my confident and to feel 'normal"

I'm hard of hearing (more on the mild side), but people yelling is uncomfortable. Mostly, I'm okay if people talk one at a time, in a quiet environment, while looking at me. Unfortunately that isn't how the world works and it means I miss a lot of what is going on around me. I had at least 3 (my mum can't remember the exact number) operations on my ears when I was a child, and now my hearing, according to the hospital where I live in England, "isn't great, but not bad enough to do anything about". It seems, no matter what level of 'deafness' you have, the fully hearing world will not understand and there is little support.

im born profoundly deaf from CMV with i saw the copy it says 90 on left ear and right ear is 100 i had audiotory tested in Brisbane i have very little hearing so yeah i had ear infection when i was toddler and ur vids is awesome

I'm stuck between the deaf and hard of hearing. Deaf at age 4, I grew up mainstream, I interacted with Deaf people but never understood their rationale. Married a hearing person. Work and interact among hearing people. I'm used to saying I'm deaf although I have a cochlear implant, people call me hard of hearing

Severe hearing loss in right ear (wears a hearing aid in this ear). Profound hearing loss in left ear (hearing aids don't help me in this ear so I wear nothing). :)

I was born legally deaf, not hard of hearing but legally deaf, the diagnosis was changing a lot i was told nerve damage but then I was told tissue damage but all together I am 100% deaf in my right ear (I can't hear anything) then I'm 70% deaf in my left (most of the reason. Why I say what) and what annoys me the most about people is that they try to test it.

I actually have the opposite quandry of yours. Can't embrace the HoH label because I still can hear, but in the hearing (or ignorant) world I have some trouble hearing.

I also get the definition thing and call myself hearing impaired ... usually in the sentence `sorry but I didn`t catch that I`m hearing impaired` it seems to scare people less than `deaf` and also It means the next sentence isn`t shouted at me as much, (yes shouting doesn't help its just a louder muffle). So nice to hear someone say how exhausting social stuff is...anything other than 1-1 in a quiet room takes so much concentration. Anyway loving the channel i`ve only recently found it, im gay and my partner baulks at the idea of wearing jeans and not a dress shes the only person i`ve known to go walking in Dartmoor in green wedges and a get cutie dress.... while im a gardener and am usually covered in mud.

I am Hard of Hearing and it is a strange line to walk. I communicate orally and am among the hearing world, so I don't QUITE fit in with the Deaf community. But yet hearing people don't understand my hearing loss so I don't QUITE fit into the hearing world. I neither operate as Deaf or Hearing, and it's super weird.

thank you so much! im slightly hard of hearing, really bad in my left ear and people will be like.. so youre deaf! so frustrating to explain

There is no 'Deaf V HoH', (As in a battle), its worse, more like you do your thing we do ours. Unfortunately too many extremists of the cultural variety are determined to non include obviously there are clashes there where access issues collide... because one only wants sign and the other wants something else. As fellow deaf we should be supporting each other not drawing lines in the sand, but the divide looks pretty evident. It suggests apathy and indifference which is the killer really, you cannot counter it. We aren't co-existing or campaigning for same things.

It's odd that accents get picked up by deaf people too, huh. Interesting

I am hard of hearing and I just subbed

I recently learned I had hearing deficits and getting help and understanding how it affects me is so strange. Kinda makes me feel like a fraud sometimes because...I didn’t realize everything. Like I think I came up with ways adapt without realizing what was happening? Or just ignored it. But now that I’m being asked “what exactly does it make difficult?” I’m struggling to word it and explain and even remember on the spot. Like I can’t kids kids very well. Noisy areas suck, so do groups. I miss pieces of what people say and take longer to process exactly what was said and meant. I feel super cautious outside around streets because I miss cars sometimes (can’t locate them). I have tinnitus and it makes differentiating sounds difficult and can be annoying when it is bad. Also beeping alarms are easy to miss, like my phone, or an at home fire alarm. Lots of social cues to understand a situation is occurring. I am still trying to understand and cope with all that is being thrown at me.

ive always had hearing problems its an entire story that I wont bore you all with lol. xD But 2 ear drum replacements on my right ear and tubes since I was4 (until I was a teen when they took them out for the last time, after my second eardrum replacement ) and they covered the hole I was born with in my right ear when I was a teen. Supposed to improve my hearing(failed) . And smart parents would learn sign and teach you signs etc. But no mine didnt. So I'm 25 still losing my hearing, and going to the ear dr regularly to preserve whatevers left (oh and somehow I forgot to mention I cant use hearing aids bc chronic ear infections. The drainage would ruin them and they would be pointless.) and I'm learning asl/pse and have been teaching my two toddlers since they were born how to sign.

Deaf = Culture (e.g. Deaf World) deaf = physical symptom Hard of Hearing = product of the Hearing world, meaning more Hearing than Deaf I am myself a Deaf person that is living in the Deaf world but having to work in the Hearing world and constantly have to explain to Hearing people how Deaf world operates. Part of the job.

This very good informative video I always curious what the difference

Do you ever feel isolated/ rejected from the Deaf community? I know there’s a really rich, unique culture there, do you feel like you can’t be as much a part of that or aren’t because you’re able to live in a hearing world?

Please remember there’s half deaf people.☺️ People seem to not take my people seriously cause we can still hear... from one ear but it’s still a huge struggle cause going to public places, driving, hearing certain things, and listening to music (non monotoned) is still a struggle. Also feeling alone and not able to relate to the deaf community or the hearing community.. :’( My biggest fear is going completely deaf one day due to an illness or something and not knowing how to live since I still struggle with learning ASL

For me, I can hear. And I can hear very well, but I can't understand words. Certain people with certain accents (like yours for example) are easier for me to understand. So I just say I'm HoH and tell people they need to speak up a little louder.

Very interesting. Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts on this!

if you are hard of hearing you can hear and communicate better than a deaf person, this definition helps so that the interlocutor understands how much difficulty you have. I've always wondered why deaf people don't accept someone who calls themselves hard of hearing because they feel at a disadvantage, I guess. where is the evil? And the deaf wants to call his self hard of hearing, you have killed the term

i tell people if they could speak up, and that i have hearing loss, they seem to generally understand

Loved your spice girls, you made it instantly play in my head.

I always find it hard as without my hearing aid in my left ear o can't hear what any one is saying even though I only have mild piss in right and severe loss in left I also have auditory processing disorder so I find it very difficult to process the sound I hear and tend to miss most conversations as I lip read to best of my ability so I never know how to explain it or what terminology to use as I feel like it's confusing to most people when I try to explain

We should definitely start a community. This is great Material

People we all have different Rates of Deafness you could be 1% deaf or 10% or 35% or 75% or 100% , it is how the Ball Rolls (LIFE) moving on :))

You're so pretty! You look a lot how my grandma looked when she was young (which is a compliment, she was beautiful :) ) but I noticed in more recent videos for example with you and your wife she doesn't do sign language and it seemed as if you could understand what she was saying so have you recently gotten a device to help for your hearing or are you just really good at reading lips?