HEARING WITH MY EYES

I'm a natural born lip reader. What does this mean?
When a hearing person is pre-lingual (before speech) he/she is hearing sounds and words to help them learn to speak. For me, I was hearing nothing, just dead silence, but my eyes saw words being formed on my mother's lips. Thus was the beginning of lip reading, my language. To this day I still depend on my eyes for communication. I'm so thankful for my eyes.