What Parent Has It Easy?

When I Learned To Sign And Speak At The Same Time, The Whole World Opened Up To Me. That's The Beauty Of Encouraging Kids Who Are Deaf To Use Whatever It Takes To Communicate.

I Grew Up In The Suburbs Of Chicago, And In Spite Of What Most People Might Have Expected From A Young Girl Growing Up Deaf, Life For Me Was Like One Long Episode Of The Brady Bunch. Despite Whatever Barriers Were In My Way, I Imagined Myself As Marcia Brady Skating Down The Street Saying “hi” To Everyone, Whether They Knew Me Or Not.

I'm Gonna Be Unemployed When People Read This. Ha.

Watch Me When People Say Deaf And Dumb, Or Deaf Mute, And I Give Them A Look Like You Might Get If You Called Denzel Washington The Wrong Name.

Every One Of Us Is Different In Some Way, But For Those Of Us Who Are More Different, We Have To Put More Effort Into Convincing The Less Different That We Can Do The Same Thing They Can, Just Differently.