Yo–I’m Deaf!
Karen, "a deaf mom of three deaf and hard of hearing kiddos", sounds so positively perky and cheery in her epinions biography that I read the whole post through with a smile.
A smile, in part, of recognition and empathy. "Hey! It was EXACTLY like that for me too!!"
I was born with normal hearing and I was diagnosed with a moderate to severe hearing loss when I was seven. This explains why my speech is close to normal– my hearing loss occurred after the acquisition of speech. I received my first hearing aid when I was nine, but I mostly got by on lip reading. Sound coming into the hearing aid wasn’t clear, which meant that I couldn’t use the phone and have an understandable conversation.
