2017-08-162017-08-162016Noel Patrick O’Connell (2015): Childhood interrupted: A story of loss, separation, and reconciliation, Journal of Loss and Trauma, DOI: 10.1080/15325024.2015.1048151http://hdl.handle.net/10395/2114This essay presents a story of personal loss and childhood trauma experienced by the author in 1968. Written in autoethnographic form, the author narrates a particular time in his life when he lost his hearing and subsequently experienced “disrupted attachment”(Becker, 1997) caused by forced separation from family on the day he began life at a residential school for deaf children. Forty-six years later, the author weaves together a narrative of loss and trauma followed by his own reflections, showing how he used writing conversation as a source of healing that allowed him reconcile with his past.engDisrupted attachmentFamily separationHealingHearing lossTraumaArticle10.1080/15325024.2015.1048151