“Why are you talking so weird?” It is one of the questions that Yamila van der Meulen (19) regularly gets when she is talking to someone who does not know that she is hearing impaired. Although she has now accepted her disability, such comments still bother her. Reason enough for the teenager to place an appeal on LinkedIn, in order to get in touch with other hearing-impaired people and to exchange experiences.
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Yamila (19) is hard of hearing: ‘I was ashamed for years, but now I dare to talk about it’
