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I think being deaf gave me an increased sense of sight.

There is research proving that deaf people have increased visual abilities.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

I am a visual person, given that I am deaf.

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.