I'm more fixated on the fact that I'm not religious, and I'm looking for others who are not religious, but spiritually wild or free. I'm looking for others who managed to carry intact their childhood world of being without religion and yet being connected with the world without language into adulthood. Most children, because of how young they are when they enter the church, forget and don't remember what it was like before that time. I lived in it long enough to an old enough age that I can't forget it and trying to kluge any religion into my life as a bedrock always fails. It feel like having a structure superimposed over something that is indefinite, but definitely me. Like my views get torn apart and shoved into boxes, barrels, spheres, and what have you. The way I feel about it, some people consider religion their bedrock, but I consider the ground that lies under that bedrock as my foundation.
There are plenty of deaf who were discovered in time and taken to church after being diagnosed and taught to communicate, but very few who went undetected as deaf long enough to create an independent worldview on spirituality.
