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Voices of Deafness Transcript
Alison, 13, Student
"The cochlear implant helps me talk much better. And now they can understand me. And I don't have to, you know, have someone to help me in sign language. I just use my voice ... I consider myself deaf. I still have a sign language part of me, part of my life, but I'm still deaf, no matter what ... I've got a lot of deaf friends, and, well, some of them thought it was great because I'd be part of the hearing world, and the deaf culture. But some of them, they didn't really accept the way the cochlear implant showed me because they thought of all the things that would happen to me, like I won't be able to swim after the surgery or something would happen to my head, but which was not true ... But some of them, they're very against me. So that just ... we try to help them think about it and tell them it's OK. You know, you don't have to get it. It's just the way I am."
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