Sang Mi-Yung's JUSTNOFAMILY Story

My abusive father made me completely deaf after he damaged my ears.
My name is Sang Mi-Yung (상미영) and I am 37 years old, This is my first time posting to a forum like this and Longwei and Joseph are helping me.

I was born in 1982 in Miami, Florida, in a place called North Miami Beach to a Korean immigrant couple.

I was born with hearing loss drastic enough for me to require hearing aids and be considered clinically deaf, My mother taught me how to sign in Korean and American English and speak it, she died when I was 15.

My father is without a doubt, the most evil human being I’ve ever met, He tried to “cure” my deafness by restricting access to my hearing aids and then forcefully inserting cotton buds into my ears, It hurt like hell to the point I felt like I wanted to die.

Due to the fact he denied me my hearing aides, my hearing worsened to the point I could only hearing loud bangs via vibrations.

He said my deafness was a curse, that I was a whore and a monster that deserved to have her ears horrible mutilated, damaging things you’d say to a young child.

At 15, my mother died, and no, my father didn’t kill her, she died in her sleep.

Now, my father was one of those Koreans who stuck by customs, when he was with other Korean-Americans, he forbade me from wearing hearing aids and I had to wear traditional Korean clothes because he was so ashamed of having a deaf child.

At the age of 19, May 18th 2001 was the end of my eternal nightmare, a gang of Asian-American pirates/gang members found me bleeding on the floor from my ears and I felt sick, one of my saviors, a Japanese-American woman named Maria threw up after we went home from hospital.

She said she hadn’t felt this disgusting since her mother died.

The boss and she shot my father, the shot Maria fired was lethal and we went to a hospital under a false name.

I could no longer wear hearing aids and I cried for hours until it went dry.

That night, I slept in Takeshi’s room instead of my own, Dinner was a quiet occasion, Almost everyone lost their appetite as a result.