Stephanie Beacham Quotes

The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but I swear that I do not know how to be deaf: I cannot get used to it, and I am as humiliated and distressed by it today as I was during the first week. No philosophy in the world can palliate deafness.

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

I became deaf when I was 18 months old. And I learned to sign when I was 5 years old.

I think the biggest misconception is that people think deaf people are not able to do things.

I am a visual person, given that I am deaf.

Dad could speak with a strong voice. And luckily, he was very good at lip-reading, so he was able to disguise his deafness well. He tried various hearing aids but would find them fiddly and uncomfortable, and worse, they often made horrible high-pitched noises.

I'm almost completely deaf anyway. So I'm worried. I'm very worried.

[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

I was born deaf. I was raised in a hearing world and in a deaf world at the same time. I can't say that I like one better than I like the other. I like them both. I speak pretty well; I gesture. If I don't understand something, you know, pen and paper, texting. I use it all.

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.

The deaf community and the hearing community, there's not always a ton of interaction.

I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss.

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

I was born deaf. Sound never existed in my life, and this is completely normal to me.

We have over 25 deaf individuals in my family.

I think being deaf gave me an increased sense of sight.

Am I complaining about my deafness? No, I am not.