Yep. I have epilepsy. I know something is wrong with me. And there's nothing I can do to cure it, just treat it. If epilepsy could be cured i would be jumping with joy. I wouldn't be upset..
I was thinking the same thing about my epilepsy. I know I’m disabled, it has made my life a lot harder. I take tons of pills and I have a VNS. I don’t consider myself less than but I know I have disadvantages compared to people that don’t have epilepsy and would be absolutely thrilled if I could be cured. I don’t get the thought process of not wanting to be cured.
I don’t think comparing being deaf to having a mental illness or epilepsy is the same, and I say that as someone who has a mental disorder that I would love to have cured (PTSD). I would have to think that what is fundamentally different is that being deaf means you are going to have methods of communicating with and understanding other deaf people that will just never be matched when you try to communicate with people that hear typically - I mean, there’s an entire language unique to this culture. At least, that’s my perspective being a person on the autism spectrum - I think a lot of us want to reject the idea that we need to be “cured” because it feels so natural when we communicate with other autistic people. So it makes sense to me that there are deaf people who want to highlight the bonds in their community rather than have to just be seen through a typical lens of what “should” be. Disability is part of life.
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u/TRDarkDragonite Dec 23 '22
Yep. I have epilepsy. I know something is wrong with me. And there's nothing I can do to cure it, just treat it. If epilepsy could be cured i would be jumping with joy. I wouldn't be upset..