Corinne Walsh recounts her experiences growing up as a deaf child in a hearing world. She was diagnosed as deaf at the age of four (that is, postlingually); the cause of the onset of deafness has never been determined. Because she had some residual hearing in the low-pitched range, it was decided that communication would be oralist (hearing aids and speech therapy) rather than sign language. Corinne was mainstream schooled and did not encounter marginalization because of her disability until her high school years. She excelled academically, nevertheless, and went on to complete a BA, MA, and PhD. Her doctoral research concerned hearing loss in a remote Indigenous community in northern Australia, where she found that the perceptions and experiences of community members constitute other valid ways to view and experience hearing, the body, disability, health, sickness and healing, and that Indigenous voices must be heard if change is to happen.