I do have a sign name. My name is Nimo, and I'm from Somalia, which is located in the east of Africa, on the right side. I was born there.
So... I was still young, only five years old, when we moved to the Netherlands. We arrived as political refugees, because there was a civil war.
But we fled in time, half a year before the war broke out we came here.
We were actually going to go to Germany because... My dad used to work as fishery minister.
He left his job for me and Achmed, my brother, who is also deaf. We moved and my dad left his job in Frankfurt, we stayed there for three months.
What to do with school? Gathering information, how to deal with deafness, etcetera: my parents were doing that in Germany. They got all the information in a hospital.
We needed a hearing aid, which we got. My parents paid for it. We didn't have insurance for that in Africa.
So yeah, they had to pay quite a lot. When that was all taken care of...
My parents felt like: 'Deaf? Oh... That's alright.'
It also has to do with our faith.
We're muslims. If you're born disabled, or something, it doesn't matter. We say that God created every child, just the way they are.
You have to accept that that's how it is. It's handled more easily because of our faith. You have to take good care of your children.
That's what my parents think is important. I like that about my parents.