#Deafhood is another variation of the all-too-human mechanism of "anchoring," a practice that began in early childhood, & is often represented as parents, home, the street. Anything that gives the child a feeling of assurance. This experience is the first & likely the happiest protection against the indifferent cosmos.

When we find out later that those "fixed points" are only arbitrary, ephemeral, that sparks a crisis of confusion & anxiety, & we immediate fish about for a new anchor.