Pre-lingual vs Post-lingual Hearing Loss

Pre-lingual Hearing Loss (HL) is HL before the acquisition of speech. Post-lingual HL comes after the access to speech. I'm pre-lingual since I've been deaf all of my life. I run into a lot of folks that lose hearing after they've acquired a mastery of the English spoken language and I know the pain they feel. I don't understand it fully since I didn't lose my hearing later in life, but I know about the challenges that will be faced. I imagine it would be much harder to have normal hearing thresholds reduced since the person would know what he/she is missing out on. The most important thing to remember is not to let the hearing loss define oneself. One good thing about folks with HL- they don't have to listen to negativity.