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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.

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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.

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But we fled in time, half a year before the war broke out we came here.

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We were actually going to go to Germany because... My dad used to work as fishery minister.

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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.

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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.

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We needed a hearing aid, which we got. My parents paid for it. We didn't have insurance for that in Africa.

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So yeah, they had to pay quite a lot. When that was all taken care of...

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My parents felt like: 'Deaf? Oh... That's alright.'

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It also has to do with our faith.

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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.

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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.

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That's what my parents think is important. I like that about my parents.