What will happen if I'm born deaf and blind?

I have been wondering what will happen if I'm born deaf and blind. It's like living in a silent and dark world all my life. I couldn't hear or see. How would I communicate with my family??? Communication will obviously be the greatest challenge.

Once, I tried to pretend being deaf and blind by closing my eyes while in bed. Suddenly, I felt so scared. No sounds. No sights. No feelings. No assurance. Just a world of silence.

I've once watched a show on TV a long time ago regarding deaf and blind female triplets. I could feel their struggles to communicate, to voice out their wants or needs to their family members, especially their parents. It was sheer sadness watching them get on with their lives, living in total darkness. They weren't even teens yet they were already having such difficulties. They tended to throw tantrums whenever they couldn't communicate. Their parents got so stressed up trying to tell them things. They had to look after three kids with same conditions which was a heavy burden.

I often wondered how the deaf and blind people communicate with other people. Eventually, I found out through another drama featuring on a deaf and blind young girl I watched last time that in order to communicate with people around her, a lady would put her hand on her open palm and slowly finger-spelt in sign language to let her feel the shapes of the ABCs.

Her family hated that girl for she always broke things, had bad manners, frequently threw tantrums and cried a lot. But I really respected that lady for she had immense patience to teach her good manners such as table manners and talked in a nice way, etc. I recalled watching her teach the girl by letting her touch practically everything in the house, and finger-spelling on her palm every names of the things she touched. Gradually, she became a obedient girl and was slowly loved by her family. Guess an unconditional love and patience are what kept these two families going. (:

I really thank God for giving me an opportunity to have eyes to see, appreciate the world I'm living in, and two hands to communicate in many ways despite having only four fingers on each hand. Thank you, God! :D