“Not a dog. Not a wolf. All he knows is what he’s not. If only he could see what he is.”
This scene from Balto always gets me right in the feels. As a hard of hearing person I don’t belong in the hearing world. But I speak normally and never learned sign language, so I don’t belong in the deaf world either.
Sometimes I wish I would have been born deaf, so I could have grown up learning sign language and everything. I think gradually losing my hearing has been far worse for me than never being able to hear at all would have been.
I’m not a dog. I’m not a wolf. I don’t know what I am. But I can tell you it’s pretty lonely sometimes.