Am Deaf - Presidentially awarded, entrepreneur, etc. etc. Would a blog be valuable to you?

YES PLEASE!!!

I am currently a graduate mathematics student and am successful by all of society's metrics, but have a lot of trouble interacting with the Deaf community. Although I started out in a deaf school, I was transferred to a school that was academically "elite" but had zero deaf students. Later on in college, there was just ONE other deaf kid in my entire four years there.

My graduate program is in a bigger city with a large deaf community so I regularly engage with them (especially since I receive disability support through them for my coursework) but it has been very hard for me to relate to them since there is a big achievement gap between me and the other students. Even the graduate students that I interact with are in teaching, psychology, etc rather than my academic level.

With undergraduate students, I have trouble communicating strategies or skills for success because, well, math and computer science aren't social fields. The people I interact with struggle a lot in class and I also struggled as well in lectures but had the luck of being mathematically talented, which was I was then able to develop through self-study rather than needing a classroom. And, achieving success in mathematics doesn't really require great social skills -- so I did not really develop those relating skills very well, either!

It sounds like you have interacted with the Deaf community much earlier in life, and continue to be part of it while maintaining professional success. I would love to read your blog and see how you have dealt with all of it and learn about how you got to where you're at, as well as your experiences interacting with both the Deaf community and mainstream hearing people.

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