But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.

When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.