{"id":760,"date":"2023-12-01T16:59:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/inclusionisinnovation\/?post_type=features&#038;p=760"},"modified":"2025-02-10T18:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T18:38:34","slug":"a-life-less-silent","status":"publish","type":"features","link":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/features\/a-life-less-silent\/","title":{"rendered":"A life less silent "},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"single-760\" class=\"mssrc-features font--sans has-light-theme has-microsoft-branding\" data-clarity-region=\"article\">\n\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\t\t\t<header class=\"mssrc-block-post-header is-style-fifty-fifty has-high-density has-text-align-left\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-column flex-basis-50\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"post-header__content has-text-align-left\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/2023\/12\/\" class=\"kicker\"><time datetime=\"1701449985\">December 1, 2023<\/time><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"h2\">A life less silent <\/h1>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"h3\">For Lyn, her hearing loss journey helped her find her voice. Now she wants to make sure everyone has a chance to be heard.  <\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-column flex-basis-50\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"post-header__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/features\/a-life-less-silent\/\" class=\"featured-image size-large default\" aria-label=\"Read the story titled A life less silent \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-1.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Lyn\" \/><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/header>\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"post__content\">\n\n\t\n\n<section \n\tclass=\"mssrc-block-content-block\" \t\tstyle=\"\"\n\t>\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-column flex-basis-50 push--25 column--content\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p>I lost my father a few months after I joined the Australian Federal Police (AFP). I was in the academy when I got word that he\u2019d had a sudden heart attack. I was only 21, and he was only 53. My mum also died relatively young\u2014she was 63 when she passed away. My parents had given me and my siblings an idyllic childhood, one of long summers, beaches, fishing, and sport; losing them so early in life left a profound imprint on me. It gave me a, \u201cLife is too short, I\u2019ve gotta live it\u201d approach.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I grew up in a working class environment, and it wasn\u2019t the norm to go straight into university&nbsp;after secondary school. But a few years into my career in law enforcement, I got the opportunity to go to university, and I took it. I was halfway through completing my law degree when I realized that being a lawyer wasn\u2019t my calling. Still, I pushed through, determined to finish what I\u2019d started. I remember being very proud (and very relieved) to be the first in my family to graduate from university.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"mssrc-block-content-quote\">\n\n\t\t\t<aside class=\"pullquote has-background has-white-background-color\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"is-style-full\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Rather than wallow in self pity, I realized I needed to convert those feelings into the energy to drive change for myself and for others.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-column column--content flex-basis-50 push--25\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"mssrc-block-content-image\">\n\n\t\t\t<aside class=\"fullwidth-media\">\n\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-portrait-1900x1268.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-portrait-1900x1268.jpg 1900w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-portrait-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-portrait-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-portrait-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-portrait-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-portrait.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\" alt=&quot;Portait of Lyn sitting at desk&quot;><\/figure>\t\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-columns\n\t\t\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-column column--content flex-basis-50 has-text-align-left push--25\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section \n\tclass=\"mssrc-block-content-block\" \t\tstyle=\"\"\n\t>\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-column flex-basis-50 push--25 column--content\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">I couldn\u2019t hear a single word&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While in law school, I remember I had a panicked moment where suddenly I realized I couldn\u2019t hear a single word. I was sitting in a small seminar where everyone was taking notes except for me. Turns out, the professor was speaking, but I hadn\u2019t noticed. As a child, I underwent the first of many surgeries, having tubes placed in my eardrums. The doctors and my parents believed that the surgery was a success, and so did I until that moment in class.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That experience triggered a series of surgeries, and I finally learned the underlying cause of my hearing loss: eustachian tube dysfunction. That\u2019s a condition that prevents your eustachian tubes from opening properly, impacting the equalization of pressure in the middle ear, in my case causing chronic infections resulting in a collapsed eardrum, otosclerosis (an abnormal bone growth), and hearing loss.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several years later, I had surgery to place a titanium implant into the mastoid bone behind my ear. Over time the implant integrates with the bone and a sound processor can then be connected. This enables me to hear through a bone-anchored hearing aid. I thought my ear troubles were behind me, but more debilitating ear infections led to more surgeries and even a stint in the ICU, where doctors discovered that I had a cholesteatoma (a cyst-like growth) that had begun to move into my brain cavity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"mssrc-block-content-quote\">\n\n\t\t\t<aside class=\"pullquote has-background has-white-background-color\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"is-style-full\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I refer to myself as \u2018little d\u2019 deaf.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-column column--content flex-basis-50 push--25\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"mssrc-block-content-image\">\n\n\t\t\t<aside class=\"fullwidth-media\">\n\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-aid-1900x1268.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-aid-1900x1268.jpg 1900w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-aid-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-aid-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-aid-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-aid-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-aid.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\" alt=&quot;Lyn portrait&quot;><\/figure>\t\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-columns\n\t\t\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-column column--content flex-basis-50 has-text-align-left push--25\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section \n\tclass=\"mssrc-block-content-block\" \t\tstyle=\"\"\n\t>\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-column flex-basis-50 push--25 column--content\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">The right moves&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the midst of my diagnosis and subsequent surgeries, I\u2019d left a rocky marriage\u2014one that had built up some deep insecurities in me that I was still working to get over. Professionally, I was at the level where leadership roles were within my reach, but I had this nagging feeling that there might be a different path out there for me. So, I took some time off from working and went backpacking through Europe. I might&#8217;ve been one of the older backpackers there. Life has a funny way of surprising you; it was during this time that I met my now-husband. At the time, I thought, \u201cThis is never going to work.\u201d He was much younger than I was. I lived in Australia; he lived in England. But we wanted to make it work.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I left the AFP, made the move to England, and took the plunge into consulting for forensic practices at Andersen and Deloitte. In 2001, we were married. Work was going well, and my husband and I decided to try and start a family. I was approaching 40 and very healthy but could not get pregnant. In exploring our options, we learned there were very long delays for fertility treatments through the NHS (National Health Service) in England.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around this time, I got the opportunity to work for Cisco Systems, first as an investigator and then managing their global team and ethics program. That was my intro into the tech world. My husband and I moved to California, where we learned that fertility treatments weren\u2019t covered through my ex-pat contract. I remember writing to the head of HR and saying, \u201cYou know, if you&#8217;re serious about women in management and leadership positions, you need to think about including health-care coverage for the expat contracts.\u201d They responded straight away and connected us with some fantastic fertility physicians.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to the change in assistance and medical coverage, we were able to have all the necessary medical tests, which revealed that I had no viable eggs. It was then that we learned about egg donors, and after a couple of attempts, we found our donor. At 44 and a half, I gave birth to our daughter. I like to say, she was \u201cmade in California.\u201d She\u2019s 15 now and has grown to be an amazing kid.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In some ways, I\u2019m glad I waited to have a child in my 40s. I had financial stability and a stronger sense of self. On the flip side, parenting a child was hard without my parents. We had moved back to England to be closer to my husband\u2019s family when our daughter was born, but we had only been back in England for three years when along came an opportunity at Microsoft. So once again, we moved, this time to the Pacific Northwest. So apart from those few years early on, we don\u2019t have any form of extended family nearby. There&#8217;s only really been the three of us all the time, and we\u2019re a pretty tight unit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All throughout this period of career shifts and becoming a mother, I continued to struggle with my hearing. I had another surgery on my left ear to clear and clean everything out, remove my eardrum, and seal my ear canal with a skin graft. There\u2019s no ear canal, and I hear through the bone-anchored hearing aid that&#8217;s attached to my skull. Then came more issues with a growth in my nasal cavity which impacted my right ear\u2014my good ear\u2014and that caused moderate to severe hearing loss that has required an additional hearing aid.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"mssrc-block-content-image\">\n\n\t\t\t<aside class=\"fullwidth-media\">\n\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-laughing-1900x1268.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-laughing-1900x1268.jpg 1900w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-laughing-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-laughing-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-laughing-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-laughing-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-laughing.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\" alt=&quot;Lyn portrait smiling&quot;><\/figure>\t\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-columns\n\t\t\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-column column--content flex-basis-50 has-text-align-left push--25\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section \n\tclass=\"mssrc-block-content-block\" \t\tstyle=\"\"\n\t>\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-column flex-basis-50 push--25 column--content\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">\u2018Little d\u2019 deaf&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, I have zero hearing in my left ear and moderate to severe hearing loss in my right ear. I refer to myself as &#8220;little d\u201d deaf. What that essentially means to me is that I didn\u2019t grow up in the Deaf community. I\u2019m not a part of Deaf culture, and I don\u2019t sign.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have conductive hearing loss rather than nerve hearing loss, so I function mostly through my bone conduction headphones for video calls and with my hearing aids for in-person conversation. Without my hearing aids, there\u2019s no conversation or communication unless I\u2019m looking directly at the person speaking, and that\u2019s had a real emotional impact on me over the years. It\u2019s caused me significant anxiety and stress. I\u2019ve felt socially excluded a lot of times.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But rather than wallow in self pity, I realized that I needed to convert those feelings into the energy to drive change for myself and for others. For starters, I began asking for accommodations at work, like reserved seats and captions at meetings and events. These are things that help put me on the same playing field as everyone else.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I began to advocate for myself, that\u2019s when work and social situations improved for me. People often don&#8217;t know what you need if you don\u2019t inform them. What I need is different from what another deaf person needs. I had to get to a point of understanding that if I don\u2019t speak up and say something, none of us can learn and grow.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m part of a deaf and hard of hearing community at Microsoft known as HUDDLE. It\u2019s a group where everyone\u2019s been very willing to help each other out. We can come together, for instance, to ask questions about the latest hearing aid technology or get help finding a specialist for our individual conditions.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of HUDDLE, our community and the other disability communities at Microsoft often have the opportunity to import our user feedback into the development of Microsoft products. I\u2019m not an engineer, but I try to raise my hand as much as possible as a member of the deaf and hard of hearing community. For example, one specific area of input is the location of captions and speech bubbles. Being able to influence Microsoft\u2019s ongoing product development has given me and others in our group a feeling of being truly seen and heard.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"mssrc-block-content-image\">\n\n\t\t\t<aside class=\"fullwidth-media\">\n\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-looking-1900x1268.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-looking-1900x1268.jpg 1900w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-looking-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-looking-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-looking-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-looking-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/codeofus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lyn-looking.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\" alt=&quot;Lyn Cameron portrait looking into distance&quot;><\/figure>\t\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-columns\n\t\t\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-column column--content flex-basis-50 has-text-align-left push--25\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section \n\tclass=\"mssrc-block-content-block\" \t\tstyle=\"\"\n\t>\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-column flex-basis-50 push--25 column--content\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">Leading with empathy&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The team I manage at Microsoft is a 24-hour team, and they\u2019re spread all over the world. Our role in the company is to investigate allegations of fraud, business misconduct, conflicts of interest, and other ethical issues that may involve employees or vendors. We gather data, review documents, and interview people involved in the investigation. Our role is not to prove or disprove anything; it\u2019s to gather facts. It\u2019s equally important to show that somebody didn&#8217;t do something wrong as it is to show that they did do something wrong.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Communication skills are key to the work we do, but more than that, empathy is a skill we lead with. If you\u2019re an employee and you\u2019ve received a notice that you may be interviewed by the investigations team, that can be a scary moment. If people are feeling afraid, they\u2019re not going to open up. It\u2019s an understandably vulnerable position to be in.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">The power of vulnerability&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It took me a long time to understand that there\u2019s a power in being vulnerable. People are dealing with things at work, but they may be reluctant to share. I believe in sharing things that I\u2019m facing, and I think that empowers my team to share when they\u2019re having challenges.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back when I was in law enforcement and junior in my career, I felt it was important to be able to mix in with my team without burdening them with what could be perceived as vulnerabilities. But my grandmother always said a problem shared is a problem halved, and that has started ringing true for me.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, I\u2019d been having strong emotional reactions and bouts of anger, and couldn&#8217;t figure out why. I&#8217;d get agitated at work and be in tears after meetings. I made an appointment with Microsoft Cares, a company-wide mental health service and met with a therapist. Halfway through my second session, the therapist asked if I\u2019d ever been diagnosed with ADHD. After a psychiatric evaluation confirmed the diagnosis, I started medication, and it\u2019s been absolutely life changing. When I shared with my manager that I\u2019d been struggling and finally received an ADHD diagnosis, her first response was, \u201cYou know, you should be so proud of yourself. That you&#8217;ve come this far without knowing about your ADHD, and all along you\u2019ve still been thriving.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now whenever I get the opportunity or platform to share about my hearing disability or my ADHD, I do it because it might be that through sharing, one person hears me and decides to seek out the help or support they need. Through that support you might just learn that you can still function, and you can be successful. Yes, you will still face some challenges, but perhaps those challenges are going to open up your world a bit more.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Lyn, her hearing loss journey helped her find her voice. 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