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Sometimes I wonder how he will experience that later, whether he'll see it as a handicap, or thinks, yeah, it's just the way it is, I don't know any better.

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I've worn glasses all my life, for example, which I don't see as a handicap, because I just don't know any better than that I can't see amazingly.

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It could be the same for him, but it could also be very different.

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–I remember that the family counselor of the Dutch Foundation for Deaf and Hearing Impaired Children once brought someone who was hearing impaired herself so we could talk about it, which was very helpful.

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And she told us, for example, that she had a friend who was very different than she was. That friend was much more introverted, and preferred one-on-one conversations over groups.

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So if she was on a birthday or a crowded place she wouldn't be making much contact, or with one person at most and she didn't experience much.

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And she didn't mind that much, she would just read a book somewhere, she didn't have any problems with that.

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But the woman that came over told us she's really extraverted, and gets lots of energy from contact with others, and that it would bother her a lot if she didn't hear everything all the time.

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And then I thought, oh right, so it also really depends on Fabian's personality, how he will develop and what he subsequently needs.

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Whether he needs help with contact with others, because he thinks that is important, to really understand that well.

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Or that it doesn't matter much. That he can just sit somewhere and play a game and that that is then okay. So time will tell, yeah, that's what I learned from that.