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Deaf Children that have deaf parents are lucky because their parents have a better understanding of ASL and deaf culture, They are proud of who they are and have strong leadership skills and can pass down the skills that they need to use in the outside world, and overall their family is closer because of it. Their is a lot of Irony in this because Mark’s family situation was not quite like that. They did not embrace their deaf culture and tried so hard to be apart of the “normal” hearing
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