Community Quote by Paul Raci

I always say deafness is a silent disability: you can't see, and it's not life-threatening, so it has to touch your life in some…

— Rachel Shenton

I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language…

— Shoshannah Stern

Deaf people are not a monolith.

— Paul Raci

There were a lot of deaf people trying to get into the industry, who had broken down certain barriers and doors - allowing me…

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

In the deaf community, there is exactly that - a community. It's like nothing I see in the hearing world. It's old fashioned, I…

— Rachel Shenton

When I was a kid in Chicago, it was looked upon as something that you had to fix - that you were broken. If…

— Paul Raci

I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable language (and…

— Oliver Sacks

Growing up, I didn't know that there were other deaf people out there. I thought I was the only one.

— Lauren Ridloff

But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb…

— Ken Kesey

At one point during my childhood, I thought I was the only deaf person that walked this planet.

— Lauren Ridloff

They thought I was deaf when I was a kid because I was always totally off in my own little world.

— Lynne Ramsay

Culturally deaf people don't want to be fixed. They don't feel impaired. They feel complete.

— Paul Raci