Deaf Utopia: A Memoir—and a Love Letter to a Way of Life

by Nyle DiMarco

Doctors often think of deafness as a problem that needs to be corrected instead of a natural difference,

It was a misguided hope. The goal should never be for Deaf people to pass as hearing, but to achieve their full potential using methods and languages that work for them.

“The problem is not that the deaf do not hear. The problem is that the hearing world does not listen.”