Jonny Cotsen is lots of things: a dad, an actor, a football fan. He is also deaf and decisions made by his parents meant he was brought up as if he wasn't, meaning he never learned sign language as a child and attended a private mainstream secondary school, rather than a specialist deaf school.
Jonny, who lives in Cardiff, will feature in a BBC Wales programme about what it's like being deaf but being raised as part of the hearing world. He says he wants to "make peace" with the decisions made for him and to see if he can be part of both the hearing and deaf worlds.
"Though I was born deaf, I was made to adapt to be part of the hearing world. Every deaf person's story is different. This is mine. I learned to lip-read, it isn't always easy. I wear hearing aids, they're far from perfect. I learned to speak, which was tough. Sometimes people understand me perfectly but I know sometimes people can struggle with some words.
