Anna Karenina
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Hello there, I'm from London, UK.
I'm profoundly deaf, but I really don't have a deaf label - I grew up Deaf in Russia, then we moved around Europe and in my teen years went oral and then mainstream. My brain must be weirdly wired now. I still have hard time to be articulate.
Now I'm busy with my two boys (3.5 and 1) and general life with no overlap with Deaf culture. I don't 100% like being in mainstream either, but what can you do - but carving out limited time to meet other deaf people wasn't high on long list of life priorities.
Until I met a hearing mum of profoundly deaf little boy. She had zero experience of Deaf culture, but she turned into amazing advocate for her son - she and her partner immersed themselves in BSL and now BSL is first language in their household and she's busy meeting Deaf people.
It's inspired me to learn BSL too - about time.
I'm profoundly deaf, but I really don't have a deaf label - I grew up Deaf in Russia, then we moved around Europe and in my teen years went oral and then mainstream. My brain must be weirdly wired now. I still have hard time to be articulate.
Now I'm busy with my two boys (3.5 and 1) and general life with no overlap with Deaf culture. I don't 100% like being in mainstream either, but what can you do - but carving out limited time to meet other deaf people wasn't high on long list of life priorities.
Until I met a hearing mum of profoundly deaf little boy. She had zero experience of Deaf culture, but she turned into amazing advocate for her son - she and her partner immersed themselves in BSL and now BSL is first language in their household and she's busy meeting Deaf people.
It's inspired me to learn BSL too - about time.
