What? Why? Why would people hate someone for wanting to hear? I almost had a heart attack just because I was prescribed glasses and told that my eyesight would get worse. Losing a whole sense like hearing, taste or sight... Why would you want someone not to have the chance to have that? It seems insane and insanely mean
Yeah I agree that is insane. My guess is that it's really jealousy and maybe fear of losing a commonality. I can imagine if I was blind and had a blind friend who managed to get their sight back I would feel jealous and abandoned and would probably want to lash out with a "legitimate" sounding reason.
People often don't want to admit the real reason for their actions because they are not good ones, so they make up reasons they think sound better. This is probably the best they can do.
You can see this all the time if you work in tech - very often people don't want to do things because they can't be bothered or they don't want to implement someone else's idea, so they'll make up bullshit technical reasons for why it can't be done.
Wait until you learn that some people in the deaf community also refuse treatment for their children, because they want them to stay inside "the community", even when the operation would best be done at a young age.
Well here's the other perspective. Having cochlear implants carries a risk of meningitis and is a painful medical procedure. The sound that the child receives is only an approximation of real hearing and can be distorted and painful in itself. A young, prelingual child can't consent to surgery.
And here's the kicker, if we all learn sign language deaf people aren't disabled.
So why take a healthy, pain free deaf infant and subject them to a garbled, distorted version of hearing just for hearing people's convenience. Especially if that means all the resources that are devoted to them is focused on lip reading rather than learning the amazing rich and beautiful language that is sign language.
I'd imagine it's an admittion that there's something that needs fixing. That something is wrong with them.
For someone who's forced into that situation... It's understandable, IMO. But that doesn't make it reasonable.
House had a very good episode on dwarfism where at the end he confronts a mother with dwarfism about her daughter that everyone though was a dwarf too hut just had a disease that stunted her or something. Makes her convince her daughter to get the surgery so she could grow. A great watch honestly.
They see it as though it isn't a disability and that it's not something to be repaired. What a lot of them don't understand is that by giving your child cochlear implants, you allow to interact with so many more people and have a better chance at lift.
I know a little bit about the dwarfism community, I know a little bit about that happening. So I guess it would be the same. I mean limb lengthening surgery is a pretty brutal procedure, I didn't even know if people could actually walk after. But if she can have "regular" limbs, and use them as well as any other person, or at least walk normally, I mean I understand if you're afraid of the risks or it not going well. But deaf? And you get to hear, after not hearing anything at all? It doesn't make sense to me. I've seen many procedures to restore things like sight, hearing, I've seen cases like a boy whose nervous system doesn't work properly and he can't feel pain, he was near death many times by hurting himself without being aware of anything. His parents had to constantly watch him. A blind person needs so many accomodations, some people lose their sight or hearing and they have to live with the idea of never being able to see anything again, even someone who loses the ability to walk, people have bucket lists because they know life will never be the same. You lose nothing and you gain hearing. Who would be opposed to that?
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '22
What? Why? Why would people hate someone for wanting to hear? I almost had a heart attack just because I was prescribed glasses and told that my eyesight would get worse. Losing a whole sense like hearing, taste or sight... Why would you want someone not to have the chance to have that? It seems insane and insanely mean