I Woke up Deaf One Day in April: Here’s What I Learned

How I learned the importance of patience and sign language.

Natalia Packwood
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5 min readAug 29, 2021

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Woman smiling and signing while facing a laptop in a cafe
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Four months ago to this day, I woke up without being able to hear.

I didn’t notice at first; I rolled over, opened my phone and checked my notifications. My alarm alerted me it had gone off 7 times already. No big deal, I wake up late all the time.

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Natalia Packwood
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Open-minded environmentalist, activist and lover of many things