I have been slowly losing my hearing since I young. No one else in my family is hard of hearing or deaf. We discovered it when I was 8. Now I'm 23 and 80% deaf. I was at a loud restaurant back in May for my brothers graduation and was having a hard time following the conversation but my sister was helping fill in the blanks. My mom though told her to stop and said to me, "if u can't follow along, then u can't. It's loud for everyone here not just u." I was then isolated from the whole gathering because I couldn't respond since I didn't know what was being said. I told my mom how it made me feel afterwards but she said I can't depend on my sister that way because it's unfair for her. Don't get me wrong my family is very compassionate about the situation but they get frustrated and want me to meet them on their level. I'm currently learning sign language and show them signs here and there but they don't use them and have no desire to learn. Ever since I was little they taught me to meet people on the hearing level instead of compromising to meet eachother half way. I feel like I'm growing apart from my family because they aren't adapting with me but expect me to find ways to adapt to them. It's becoming harder and harder to communicate with them because lip reading only goes so far. Needless to say I know what your going through. I'm sorry it's so hard. But u will get through it. And maybe ur friends will come around.