Following the advice of doctors, who feared that I might lose the benefits of speech therapy, my family had not learned to sign and I was not allowed to associate with deaf children.
فتركني ذلك منسحقا اذ خيِّل لي ان جميع الاولاد الصم قد ماتوا ولم يبقَ سواي في العالم كله .‏