Living in a Silent World

I like the days I am in my silent house alone, no brother to ask me a million questions, no parents telling me to do something... But could I survive in a completely silent world everyday...As I write this, I am listening to music and having a conversation with my mom...How could I function? How would I feel connected to people?

Well there are 500 million people in the world who do it everyday. Some have partial hearing loss while others are completely Deaf. According to the psych book, Deaf people can feel just as connected to the world around them as people with full hearing. It says that Deaf children who grow up around other Deaf people more often identify with Deaf culture and feel positive self-esteem. This seems obvious but then I thought what if a whole family was deaf or most of them? Well according to Youtube, there are many such families like that.

A family that caught my eye was a family that had Deaf parents, two Deaf children and two hearing children. One of the hearing kids was 15 and the other three. The 15 year old talked about the challenges his family faces. Interestingly many of the stuggles he has, most teenagers experience such as his mom being overly involved in his life. However, he did say that when he went to school, he got made fun of for prounouncing some words wrong because he had copied how his Deaf father said them. He also said that the best part of being from a Deaf family is that when he got in trouble when he was younger, his teachers couldn't call home. His Deaf siblings actually go to a Deaf school and he says that is the best place for them because they can connect with people they typically wouldn't have met.

After watching multiple youtube videos about Deaf people, they all say they are content to be Deaf, that it's peaceful, and they couldn't imagine life any other way. Hearing people would say the same thing. It's hard to imagine never being able to listen to music, go through a drive through, or see a movie....However it might be nice not to hear my brother "singing" all the time though...