Read the excerpt and answer the question below.

Hearing the Sweetest Songs

by Nicolette Toussaint Newsweek May 23, 1994

For the first time, I felt unequal, disadvantaged and disabled. Now that I had something to compare, I knew that I had lost something: not just my hearing, but my independence and my sense of wholeness. I had always hated to be seen as inferior, so I never mentioned my lack of hearing.

Unlike a wheelchair or a white cane, my disability doesn’t announce itself. For most of my life, I chose to pass as abled, and I thought I did it quite well.

If I tell, people may see only my disability. Once someone is labeled “deaf,” “crippled,” “mute” or “aged,” that’s too often all they are. I’m a writer, a painter, a slapdash housekeeper, a gardener who grows wondrous roses; my hearing is just part of the whole. It’s a tender part, and you should handle it with care. But like most people with a disability, I don’t mind if you ask about it.
In which line from the article does the author reveal how she would like others to respond to her lack of hearing?
A) “I had always hated to be seen as inferior, so I never mentioned my lack of hearing.”
B) “If I tell, people may see only my disability”
C) “Unlike a wheelchair or a white cane, my disability doesn’t announce itself.”
D) “It’s a tender part, and you should handle it with care.”