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A review by libraryrobin
My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness by Lennard J. Davis
3.0
The troubled and traumatic childhood of a CoDA, filled with anger, fear, loneliness, shame, abandonment, confusion, and embarrassment.
At times I felt affinity with Lenny, when he was forced to be an adult and interpret for his parents, when he had difficulty navigating the hearing world, when he could not express himself. I have felt his anger, still do.
A CoDA has one leg in the hearing world and the other in the Deaf world, with a home in neither. We are without a community that truly understands the trauma of our fractured nature, our solace is amongst fellow CoDAs.
At times I felt affinity with Lenny, when he was forced to be an adult and interpret for his parents, when he had difficulty navigating the hearing world, when he could not express himself. I have felt his anger, still do.
A CoDA has one leg in the hearing world and the other in the Deaf world, with a home in neither. We are without a community that truly understands the trauma of our fractured nature, our solace is amongst fellow CoDAs.