But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World

By: Claudia Marseille

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Synopsis: By age four, Claudia Marseille had hardly uttered a word. When her parents finally had her hearing tested and learned she had a severe hearing loss, they chose to mainstream her, hoping this would offer her the most &“normal&” childhood possible. With the help of a primitive hearing aid, Claudia worked hard to learn to hear, lipread, and speak even as she tried to hide her disability in order to fit in. As a result, she was often misunderstood, lonely, and isolated—fitting into neither the hearing world nor the Deaf culture.This memoir explores Claudia&’s relationships with her German refugee parents—a disturbed, psychoanalyst father obsessed over various harebrained projects and moneymaking schemes and a Jewish mother who had survived the Holocaust in Munich—and with her own identity. Claudia shares how she emerged from loneliness and social isolation, explored her Jewish identity, struggled to find a career compatible with hearing loss, and eventually opened herself to a life of creativity and love.But You Look So Normal is the inspiring story of a life affected but not defined by an invisible disability. It is a journey through family, loss, shame, identity, love, and healing as Claudia finally, joyfully, finds her place in the world.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781647426279
Related ISBNs:: 9781647426262
Publisher:: She Writes Press
Date of Addition:: 08/02/24
Copyrighted By:: Claudia Marseille
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Disability-Related, Biographies and Memoirs, Health, Mind and Body, Parenting and Family, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.