Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

Defying Expectation: A Deaf Individual's Love for Public Speaking #neurodiversity #mentalwellness

11 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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Danielle Ralston talks with a profoundly Deaf man about his love of public speaking, something others didn't expect from him. A teacher helped build his confidence early on. He defies assumptions about what Deaf people can do.

This teacher is the reason that Tim, you speak on stages as a profoundly Deaf male.
Yes. Yes. She gave me the confidence. Well, I don't think she gave me the confidence, but she really kind of uncovered it, you know, because like nobody gives you that. But yeah, you know, I find myself to be a very odd Deaf individual, I guess. And the fact that you would think that someone like myself would be timid and wouldn't want to be on a stage speaking in front of people, but it's the thing that I love the most.