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Transcription: [00:23:22] (Speaker 1) I remember I was born from deaf parents - you remember that

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and there was no light or flashing way back at that time.

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The issues like when the baby cry or, my grandmother, we used her hearing as our ears.

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One time my grandmother left for a while, and so my mother put a string t- on my arm,

[00:23:41] tied it around my wrist, and when I started moving around, she knew that, that there [[speaker 1 stutters and stops speaking]]

[00:23:51] She tied the string around her wrist and tied it to herself,

[00:23:55] or would tie around my leg and when I started movin' it'd jerk the string on her.

[00:24:00] Or else she'd lay [[speaker 1 laughs]] otherwise she'd lay next to me with her hand on the bed and she'd start when I'd move around and she would wake up.

[00:24:09] And now today, we have modern devices [[singing in background]] so we don't have to do that.

[00:24:16] {Speaker 2} [[speaker 2 laughs]] That's lucky! Let me ask a question... of Sheila. Who as you probably know, if you've been here through the rest of the day

[00:24:28] normally serves as one of our interpreters we, we passed her through a telephone booth and she came out as a participant on the other side

[00:24:37] [[speaker 2 laughs]] Sheila, could you explain a little bit about what it's like to grow up as the hearing child of deaf parents?

[00:24:44] Is there any special situations that puts you in?

[00:24:51] {Sheila} Ummm... I, I thought it was normal for me.

[00:24:55] I - you know - I've never had hearing parents, so I don't know what it's like to come home from school and scream "Hey Mom, I'm home!" or something like that.

[00:25:05] I... I think that right now as I look back, I can think it's very special. I can remember when I was growing up,

[00:25:18] I was always very proud of my parents being deaf because that, you know, gave me another language that my friends didn't have.

[00:25:25] So I could brag about I know sign language, you know, and I'm so good at it, and all that.

[00:25:31] And my friends didn't, so I could teach them. So I had something like, you know, over on them, that I could teach them sign