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Am The Only Deaf Person?


"Am I The Only One" Aaron Lewis

Would be neither easy to become a Deaf person in a middle hearing person. This is about mental and emotional. I have been spending "the only Deaf person" for the whole of my life. Feel isolated, have no one's chance, and feel uninvolved in the discussion. Why are you know that none of the hearing people as well know the Deaf culture and sign language? It feels bad.  Deaf people naturally have grown with full sign language accessibility. Without knowing full sign language accessibility, it would make Deaf people feel isolated and have bad emotions. I reminded when a Deaf British who was been a speaker about the Deaf psychology.  He spoke about how the years that live in a hearing community, can be 20 years, and more years when you get to feel. It affects the identity of a Deaf person and what will be. 

How can I overcome things that feel bothered? As a Deaf person, the only thing I do is just write as much as I want to feel. Writing is my book, as firstly, then the sports are second. Which something-- the world who all the way I have, as only I have when I am being lonely and alone. Looks anti-social? Yep, 100% for sure. What I would want to be? I'm not kind of what I want to be, but as demanded due to my deafness.  This isn't what I want to do, but I have to do it. 

I have my best friend actually but I and they are alive as smaller people- which the group seems in is which invisible in this community. Who would make of it? I'm kind of not afraid of something late-arrival, but too worried about who as being. 

Then, how can I embrace myself that no longer being isolated? I embrace, I approach, I struggle, and I do as what I want to and what I trust of who will be and how be identify. I being a Deaf person, yep, just do it. All the way of living that should I do too, since the obligation on how to survive and make my life means a lot.

I am inspired by the African Americans who have survived the longest racism and slavery era in the United States and maybe over the world, which included Indonesia (New Order era, whom of Chinese Indonesians were), South Africa through the Apartheid laws-inspired by the Jim Crow laws-, Australia through the White Policy, and other any countries. Jim Crow laws, which you know about. How did Jim Crow laws last? Over 300 years since the American reconciliation period after the Civil War. Martin Luther King Jr was the person I inspired. He fought for the truth, believer, savior, and brave. 

In addition, I was remind of how the disabled people have fought for their civil rights, Deaf people with the march, and more. It makes I'm no longer be alone but I feel motivated that I need to prove to myself that the person really can does it and becomes a successful person, and achieve their dream. 

I'm not the only Deaf person anywhere, somewhere, and anyplace, and the thing I trust is still the people around me to support, pray, and motivate me. Kind of an honor to be able with them. God which you can't be forgotten, He is with you and mine, neither people might who do not believe in Him. 

To say, I'm not the only who person identifies. Still, people are in mine around, at least anywhere I am in.

Thanks, everyone.


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