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But after that’s the point, it’s not up to you. I see it as the same thing.īut then there are other people who will see it differently. Who knows? Maybe that would be another video in the efuture if something like that happened to me.īut I’m okay with both and I’m okay with having that label because for me, well I see it as one label. I’m okay with both, however, I am leaning towards the word deaf because, well, it looks like I’m going that direction anyway and maybe our lose the tag of hard of hearing in the future. So what does that mean? Should I use the word deaf or hard of hearing? You don’t decide: I or we decide the label. I felt fine with being called “deaf”, even though a lot people say you’re not deaf, you’re hard of hearing.īut frankly, not up to you. In my eyes, you are deaf.- It’s Jules! March 20, 2019Īnd I felt okay with that. Should we have just under one word, “deaf”, and nothing else?Īnd I had gotten involved with the conversation and I explained my situation and the person who described herself as deaf, she said that “I see you as deaf”, regardless of whether it’s severe, whether you’re using sign language or not…we are all under that label.

I am starting to use the word “deaf” even more now, especially, you know, over the past couple of years when I’m being more vocal about it.Īnd even there was a Twitter conversation I was part of about the use of the word deaf, capital ‘D’ Deaf, the deafblind, deaf-disabled, late deafened and hard of hearing all these words, do we need it? So because of that, I’ve always used the word “hard of hearing” over “hearing loss” or “hearing impaired”. So not everyone will embrace the word “hearing loss”, which is quite confusing as well. If anything, they have gained a new world to have their own culture, their own identity, their own language and they see it as a positive thing, not a negative thing. Other people don’t, especially those who are more profound deaf because they feel like they haven’t lost anything. So if we had perfect hearing and then you’ve lost it, some people prefer to be called, you know “I have a hearing loss” and that’s their way. Most people will say that if you have something and then you’ve lost it, then okay, you’ve lost it. I have always had that same situation all my life. At the same time I did originally accept hearing loss, but then I realized that doesn’t describe me very well because I haven’t lost anything.

Hearing impaired or hearing impairment it implies that there is something wrong with you and kinds of put in a negative way. However, I didn’t like the word hearing impaired and a lot of people don’t like that as well. Why I don’t like ‘hearing loss’ or ‘hearing impaired’? Because the word “deaf” has a perception or meaning that you can’t hear very much or at all.īut over time, I have struggled with my own identity and I’ve struggled to kind of embrace that until the past couple of years, and doing these videos.Īnd it made me realize that, you know, I should embrace that more and also made me think about am I using the wrong “label”, the wrong terminology to describe myself because it’s a very very grey area.Īnd because of the common perception that the word deaf mean that you can’t hear much or at all, then naturally I didn’t use the word deaf a lot. So immediately, that puts me into the hard of hearing.Īnd that’s how I have always labelled myself.

I don’t use sign language as my first language. And then to answer the question of what am I, well I don’t know, it’s not that straightforward.īecause you see, I grew up in a mainstream hearing world.