Daily Archives: November 19, 2019

What It Means to Have ‘Deaf Anxiety’

What It Means to Have ‘Deaf Anxiety’ Originally published in Elemental I’m reckoning with the buildup of stress I’ve accumulated through years of stigma and inaccessibility On an early October evening, I staggered into an urgent care facility with my husband and father. Sleepless nights and days filled with anxiety had made me dysfunctional: I…

Is There a Right Way to Be Deaf?

Is There a Right Way to Be Deaf? Originally published in The New York Times. I’ve always felt like the object of a constant tug of war between the deaf and the hearing communities. “Your whole life, they’ve been trying to take you away from me,” my father says to me, referring to the deaf…