ad looked up, seen me signing and grunted, ‘Huh, I didn’t think mutes were allowed to have driver’s licenses.’ Long ago I had gotten used to hearing those kinds of comments. But I could never get used to the way they made me churn inside.” Another implication of Lou Ann’s parents being deaf was when she walked to their hotel after they left her at her dorm at Harvard. On page 13, chapter 1: “I made my way to their room on the third floor and as I raised my knuckles, it dawned on me that knocking would do no good. I knew they were awake, I could hear the television. I took a notebook paper out of my purse and bent down to shove it underneath the door, working it in and out. There was no response. I tried crumpling up a small piece to throw into the room but I couldn’t get it between the jamb and the door. I pounded on the gray metal, thinking they might feel the vibration. I must have stood there for 20 minutes, hoping Dad might come out to get ice from down the hall or perhaps go to the car to retrieve a bag. But he didn’t. There was no way that night to get the attention of my deaf parents. I walked back to my dorm.” Being the child of deaf parents and the deaf child of hearing parents can be a tough situation. There are many passages in the book that substantiate this, but if I were to delve into them, they would become the whole 5 page limit for this paper. There are many devices used to aid the deaf in everyday activity. Mentioned in the book are the flashing light for when the doorbell and phone ring, a cry box that flashes when the baby cries, the TTY for the phone, pulsing light alarm clock, vibrating bed alarm clock, and so on. I personally have had experience with using TTY, well, placing calls through the California Relay Service at least. Sometimes my friend would talk, others he would have the operator read his messages to me. I would talk too fast sometimes, and when the operator would ask me to repeat myself, I would sometimes forget what it was that

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