No Disability Is Easy - Alexis Jones

People with disabilities can do anything a person without a disability can do. Some disabilities take certain accessibility devices and others don’t. However, no disability is easy.
When Alexis wakes in the morning her world is quiet, calm. The sound of a stovetop burner lighting, a car driving by, laughter from children playing outside. All sounds Alexis’ hearing aids pick up for her. Sounds hearing people often take for granted.
What if you woke up one day and suddenly your world was quiet? What if you now needed hearing aids to hear your child calling out for you? What if you couldn’t hear a fire fighter giving instruction during an emergency? What if you couldn’t hear your alarm clock waking you for the day? What if? What if? What if?
“Sometimes I think about the what ifs…. What if I was able to get hearing aids earlier? What if I was never deaf in the first place? What if I never experienced discrimination? It’s easy to think about all those “what ifs?” But if you put them all together, I wouldn’t change it. If I had a choice of being hearing or being deaf, I would choose deaf. All of the hardships and the struggles I’ve experienced I wouldn’t change it for the world.”
There are misconceptions that some disabilities are “easier” than others. That it’s easier to live with a hearing loss than to need a wheelchair for mobility. No disability is easy. Watch this video and learn what it’s like for one teenager to navigate through her disability.
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Video Production: Tanglewood Productions, Reno, NV
This video was paid for using federal funding through the NGCDD.