My Parents Had No Idea Their World Was About to Turn Upside Down

Part of the Personal Anchor series – moments that root identity and meaning.

Cartoon-style personal anchor illustration of a young family sitting together on a sofa: a father in a light shirt, a mother in a royal-blue top, and a baby in a red dress on her lap.

I was born deaf, but it wasn’t discovered until months later.

They were still living in the silence between knowing and not knowing, the space where love was enough, even if understanding hadn’t yet begun.

 

What does love without understanding mean to you?

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