At the deaf school, I felt very different from the children - I believe this was due being a day student. I couldn't wait to leave school at 3:30PM daily to get home so I could play with the children in the neighbourhood.
I remember begging my parents to let me attend a regular school. My mother told me years later, that the reason they didn't put me in regular school was that the local school district lacked resources for the deaf/hard-of-hearing. I was supposed to start regular high school in another state, but my mother was reluctant to leave her family and job behind.
