Deaf Like Me

Deaf Like Me: Reaction Paper Deaf Like Me is an emotional tale of developmental hardship. In more ways than one the story carried me on an emotional roller coaster. I was upset through most of the readings, but there were parts when I could not stop laughing. Throughout the book Lynns’s parents struggle to make their deaf child seem “normal” in a world where speech is “normal”, Lynn was not a speaker. In the …

…I didn’t think she was ever going communicate. I also felt like her parents were a little too harsh on her at times. They wanted their child to be “normal” and to be able to function on her own. In the end, Lynn’s triumph was that she was excepted as being who she was, a deaf child. Lynn was able to get through all of that and it made me smile all over.