Lin had been always positive and courageous in confronting the challenges fate had dealt him, but when he learned of his daughter's condition, for the first time, the suffering that comes from being profoundly deaf wreaked a sadness impossible to describe. He writes of his daughter's disability: "If deafness prevents you learning to speak, it is so difficult to live and find a place in society."
一向昂首迎向命運鞭撻的林良材，第一次脆弱地為「聽不到、說不出」的痛苦，感到難以言喻的哀傷。面對大女兒的缺陷，林良材寫道：「天生耳聾很悲哀，如果因此而不會講話，在社會上生活就更困難了。」