Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :https://esound.space/fullID: 768295Title: But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing WorldAuthor: Claudia MarseilleNarrator: Becky ParkerFormat: UnabridgedLength: 09:21:46Language: EnglishRelease date: 05-14-24Publisher: Authors RepublicGenres: Biography & Memoir, GeneralSummary: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 isolatedfitting into neither the hearing world nor the Deaf culture.This memoir explores Claudias relationships with her German refugee parentsa disturbed, psychoanalyst father obsessed over various harebrained projects and moneymaking schemes and a Jewish mother who had survived the Holocaust in Munichand 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.Contact: [email protected]

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