What gifts toward communication do you have?

Being able to communicate easily with other people can be used as a tool towards creating peace with others, as well as ourself. My mother gave me a huge gift by addressing my hearing problems early. She showed some independence, but she was mostly fiercely determined. A trait I sometimes wish I did have a little more of. She took me to a community center when I was five years old. When she came to pick me up, I was crying uncontrollably. The other children had made fun of me because they couldn’t understand my speaking. I had a partial hearing loss and couldn’t hear the sounds of speech correctly to imitate them. My mom attributed her belief that she was unintelligent (dumb in that way) to her partial hearing loss. She was determined that in this way I was definitely not going to be like her. She found a speech therapist and a piano teacher, even though both usually required the child to be seven. She was not about to wait until I was already in second grade. My hearing improved from 25% capable to 75% in one ear and from 50% capable to 100% in the other ear. This gift my mother gave me was huge. She took away a potential source of ridicule and gave me the ability to communicate with people. Since the abuse from the pedophile would cut me off from people in the way of having to always keep a secret; I’m glad I wasn’t cut off from people in this way. I’d never actually be “popular,” but I was and am well-liked and readily accepted.