Trust me, you are not the first! Like I said, my oldest sister (actually all three of them are) was obviously born deaf and they had Amy tested with the brain wave test (which was fairly new in 1970) and my father will still talk about how some world renowned doctor came out and made the big pronouncement that she could hear. My mom- having had the older one thought something was wrong with her speech and all the audiologists would say that she was mimicking her older sister.
Really, all three if my sisters think there is absolutely nothing wrong with them, and they have each told me they do not know what they are missing so what is to miss? I have never seen them as disabled at all. I was teasing Amy at a party she was having becasue she is a ditz, not because she is deaf, and her mother in law seems to hate me now. She pulled me aside and said- "she is not as lucky as you are" (I thought she meant that she cannot have kids due to Diabetes) and I started to talk about how she mothers my kids anyway- and oh lord she ripped into me and basically said, "no becasue she is deaf!!!!" I told her to tell Amy how she feels about that and Amy told her "I don't care about being deaf, the only thing I can't do is talk on the phone for work, and who really wants to do that anyway?"
Since she is in with the deaf culture, I swear, she will feel bad for you that you can hear. If you look at Gallaudet or NTID for college, they really form a community. One sister lives in Baltimore and the other in Rochester and they both like being with other deaf people. Amy stays in Kansas City to mother my kids (it is a joke we have because she cannot help herself, she has to insert her opinion about everything I do) and because her husband was raised here and will not move!
Your Aimee will have a good life! Don't forget all the cool kids only wear one hearing aid! (something my sister said during an argument with my mom).
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I hope my husband reads that
