Do you mind sharing a little bit of background?

I'm really happy to share this, Susan, because I've reflected a lot on what happened when I was a child has still shaped a lot of how I interact with the world and how I behave and even think.

So firstly, we have to assume I was born deaf.

I was the first child and my parents didn't pick up that I was not speaking until about 18 to 24 months.

They noticed that the children of similar age of their friends were not, were all babbling and talking and I wasn't doing that.

So when my parents found out that I was deaf, like many parents of the early 1970s, they wanted me to be part of the hearing world.

So I was fitted with hearing aids I was sent off to hours and hours of speech pathologies.

And so then you just sort of think to yourself, oh, so like, thank goodness we had families that were so supportive, right? So before the Disability Discrimination Act, like, it's crazy.