All are welcome here regardless of your personal hearing circumstances. The range of Deaf experience can vary from the late-deafened to the deaf from birth, from being a bit hard of hearing to totally d/Deaf, from being a member of the Deaf community to those who are immersed in the hearing world, and from personal experience to friends/family of Deaf/HoH. Deaf culture intersects with nationality, education, race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexual orientation, and other identity markers, leading to a culture that is at once quite small and also tremendously diverse. Deaf identity also intersects with other kinds of cultural identity. There are many distinct Deaf communities around the world, which communicate using different sign languages and exhibit different cultural norms.