also the most
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hi how are you she is my friend is going to
help to speak for me for these
people who do not know sign language and
I’m going to make signs for people
they do know sign language well I’m going to
introduce myself again I am ana ferreira
I’m from santa fe Nazi capital deaf
my parents are deaf and I have a
younger sister that I am in I’ll tell you
the journey of my life from a life of
fight
at three and a half years I started with
early stimulation taught me to
through games drawing the same
way that any other child there is
they realize that I could be integrated
in a teachers school for this was
very nice for my parents said because in
the teachers school because those two
they had been educated at the school of
deaf with too much suffering and not
They wanted their daughter to suffer the same
the school and without garden and the primaría the
the primary route more or less to the
10 years I started being integrated into the
deaf school
well I was going to a teacher school and a
deaf school a stage of very much
suffering and why I say suffering
because in the classroom while teaching
he taught and spoke to teachers
the students to talk to each other
they participated and I felt alone
I felt that invisible to them with a lot
effort was trying to recover some of
the classes in the breaks
while my classmates played
they enjoyed laughing
I did not understand them and again I went back to
feeling alone did not understand what I was doing
day or what objective I had obviously
finish seventh grade with a lot
effort you read I made it
I finished seventh grade they say I felt very
happy for is my father until that
moment had come its seventh hour
grade
so I said good I’m going to do
exactly the same and I did it
the deaf people told me you can
do the secondary and I thought I had
I remember at that moment in the stage of
holidays
outside my house I was crying and
Mom tells me what’s wrong with you why you cry
I told him that all my primary
I had suffered a lot for not understanding
that now also to follow a secondary
will suffer again tells me I do not care
think of others
Worry about your life in your future in your
work on your achievements is your life and I think
he was right
so I continued with much effort segi and
determined and secondary do not end a
once they finished secondary I had to
think about following a tertiary a
teacher of the deaf tells me you’re going to
continue studying at a tertiary level
university said again to come back with
the same again this suffering
I said yes and I followed what career
choose the truth that I did not know to what
model to follow who imitate the one of my
DIEGO companions that I take as a model
He did not know
this teacher tells me you can choose the
faculty career of the deaf think
that will teach children the same
way that voice said if you can closed with
a couple for me so I started studying
at the Institute Admiral Brown
environment number 8 the race of
faculty of the deaf during the two
two weeks before the classes
I think it’s very complex very
raised me will understand I asked my
sister who accompanied me said because my
sister my sister is going to help me with the
sign language for those things that
he should just understand so already
accompanied the first day
so the second day the third day all the
week accompanied during these two
weeks and I also said in my sister
his time his life was teenage was
studying the secondary and I will ask that
accompany me to be with me I think that
she had her time and her life had to
leave her and I had to continue alone
I continued the tertiary the race and
deaf teacher at the same time leads
this school of the deaf and a companion
that was about to become a
implant her family supported her
the teachers supported her all
friends supported
I did not understand until that moment
an implant her family
recommends my family that also
could be implanted and I asked what
does this mean the implant they told me you’re going
to be able to listen you will be able to speak
you will be able to be part of society and
I said yes I want that
so I started with these procedures
while the time passed I was
studying the career of the teaching staff of
deaf
in that career studying deaf also
we study the same subject together
one is deaf people had a
sign language interpreter
was his private interpreter in a
class at the time of this class
the official interpreter the interpreter
minutes between the whole class and I started
to observe
ree understood everything clearly and I put myself
to think that before I could not understand
I say my partner participated I could
ask could you give your opinion could
debate and what you just saw if you have
I’ve never done it
I was always sitting without being able to give my
opinion
he wanted to remember all that time what I
I could not do with time this
compañera leaves and also her interpreter
I felt again returned to have the
same frustration the same suffering
again endure and make an effort
to achieve things
Anyway decided, I followed the
same time a friend who currently
she’s my best friend and she went to the
association of deaf people here in santa fe
always attended one day I said to see for
that the association has been one day I decided
go
the truth that surprised me a lot and
it caused me a lot of emotion because in
another wall I found deaf 12
communicated in sign language
they talk about the future they talk about the guys
of the concern of the struggle of the
identity and I already thought about that
I say there I felt part of that, so
still attending a day in the
association were organizing the event
daughters and they always use photos of
reminders on the walls for
show a photo that day a photo where
there were my parents and there was a baby not
can you think who are you abb caused me
a lot of emotion
I go back to my house and asked my mom
have that baby in the photo
the photo that the association has seen
mom told me her voice was her voice when
two months I realized that at two
months had not stepped on the association
after what happened to me
then I followed another path
with that photo I was very marked followed
anyway at the time I found
with an adult deaf person who knew
that the procedures were starting
to perform the implant and ask me
if he’s going to implant me in months and I knew
that was dangerous especially dangerous
for my life I told him that I wanted to be
just as the teachers wanted to be equal
that the majority tells me you and
think of your life that you are going to lose your
lifetime
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the truth that I said nothing and was
there
then I started to think and the truth that
I felt great confusion thinking about me
family because I could communicate thinking
in a working future with these children with
those who could communicate me in the
association could also enjoy
I had deaf and hearing friends with
which could be communicated and on the other
side think about an implant to be
just like the listeners because he did not want
suffer more because my dream was to change and
be as it feels but on the other side in
my real life said was between these two
things and very confused
I decided that not that he does not want to implant me
forgiveness forgiveness forgiveness m
I think they look at me I want them to look at me
I want you to see what I feel
I kept saying no to the implant that
discovered my true life sees me
real identity
Who am I, I know what was in that
Photo
that is my identity I was born deaf I am deaf
the other way I know and what made it
he was doing because he wanted to change and be
like a teacher putting on a mask
disguising identity because
naturalization for accepting what they say
the others because that’s fine and what
had to do hearing people see
and they do things to improve the other for
disguise it but it’s not the real identity
sticks out her identity would place other than
is that
that’s a help that means this is
a genocide to his tongue is invisible
because it would seem that they are giving us
account but steal the cultural other
steal the identity
I realized that for 20 years and 20
years later I lived inside a
twister
if confused
What happens when a tornado ends?
to be rebuilt
If I feel that I rebuilt myself
from that entity the one in the photo and
seremi real identity and I’m happy being
deaf
I am happy with my tongue the language of
address
thanks to my parents I am what I am like
thank you, thank you all
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