Abstract
This study aimed to describe the process of how the author, who has a deaf sibling, overcame the difficulties of living and reinterpreting past experiences. Describing the siblings as participants in the process of overcoming their difficulties can reveal difficulties that had been thought to be difficult to understand. In order to do so, this study analyzed narratives describing the author’s relationship with his younger brother in the upper grades of elementary school and also those of interviews with parents and support staff at a childcare center. As a result, it became clear that the author had formed a dominant story in which he aimed to be and act as an older brother with a younger brother who could not hear. On the other hand, the narrative analysis showed that the dialogue with the parents and the instructor's narrative about his brother's disability prompted reinterpretation of sense-making in the present of his previous experience, thereby leading to self-transformation.
