"I had thrown off the yoke of milestone-tracking months earlier, having become fixated on her inability to roll during the precise developmental week for rolling."
"It didn't occur to me that deafness might not be an either/or binary, and that certain vibrations and pitches...could be apprehended, while other subtle speech sounds might be snatched out of a sentence."
"Like most hearing parents of deaf children, my first close relationship with a deaf person was with my child...I knew next to nothing about hearing loss or Deaf culture."
"This bleak landscape of ignorance and misinformation is often the lookout from which parents begin making decisions, as D/deaf critics have rightly pointed out."
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