Basics about a deaf person's perceptions

A lot of people've been curious about my deafness. To them, I live in an alien world, one just as alien as theirs feels to me. I've thought about doing this post for a long time, but I'm only setting fingers to keyboard about this just now. But, first off, before you begin reading, I've already heard "I'm sorry that you're deaf" and variations therefore such countless times that it just loses all sympathy effect (if it had any) in its banal repetition. Sorry about that.

( Long post about my experiencng of the world )

Feel free to ask any question not already answered in this post. I'll probably compile another post later on including those questions and their answers.