#deafness

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#creation #deafness #everyday #experience #familiar

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. ↗

— Richard Masur

#because #deaf #deafness #even #i

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#else #everyone #i #life #like

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

— Marlee Matlin

#ear #handicap #mind