For most of her 73 years, Oakland's Claudia Marseille has lived in energetic response to a comment made by a high school English teacher and often by people who learn of her profound hearing disability... But you look so normal, they say, causing Marseille to wonder what a person with severe hearing loss looks like, what normal looks like and if that's what she must be to find her place in the hearing world.
Marseille's childhood home was shrouded by secret-keeping and shadowed with hidden realities, among them the family's complete history in Germany, the trauma caused by her father's illness and Marseille's inability to hear... Marseille in a recent interview described being outfitted with primitive hearing aids the only option available at a time when today's advanced digital hearing aids and assistive listening devices with Bluetooth and infrared wireless technology didn't exist.
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