A Triumph over Insurmountable Odds 

 A  Sincere welcome to my Readers.

  My chief aim for writing my experience in both a hearing and silent world is to show hearing loss in a different perspective from the way most of the world see it. I realized that there are too much misunderstanding and too much prejudice associated with hearing loss. My hope is that others will understand why I felt compelled to give my views on deafness. and I sincerely hope my experience will help others to understand the stark horror of the loss of sounds.

I lost my hearing at the age of seven, and grew up in a world where all my playmates were hearing children.  I desperately wanted my family and friends to accept me as a normal person. This turned out to be one of the biggest battles of my life. I knew my family meant well but they had no experience with hearing loss. Perhaps they did not realize that I was still the same person inside. I wanted to go back to school and be like all my playmates, instead, I was kept in isolation, shut away from the world. My family insisted that children would make fun of me if I ever went back to school. By the time I was fourteen I began to realize that the biggest barrier in my life and the lives of others like me was not deafness but the public view of  deafness. The feeling of alienation for me was more painful for me than the hearing loss itself. 

As tell this story,I realize that there are more than thirty five million Americans living with significant hearing loss. Millions of them live in seclusion because they do not have voice in a world geared for the hearing. It's unimaginably hard for a child born without hearing to learn a language he, or she, have never heard. We should all be aware of the language barriers facing any child who are unable to hear our voice. Children born without hearing have never heard the words they should reproduce. 

All of us, hearing or not, could never go to a foreign country and  speak a language we have never heard before--even though hearing people are able to hear others speak it. Few of us realize that ninety percent of deaf children are born to hearing parents. The sad fact is that hearing loss affects all segments of societies all over the world. Communication barriers mean that hearing loss is poorly understood.

My story is your story. It's a story that so many of you can relate to. But it is also a story of hope, carrying the message that despair can be overcome. It's a testimony to the durability and determination of the human spirit in all of us.

I hope my experience will give all of you the courage and inspiration to do what you know is right.