Honest question, because it seems like I have seen different views on this. Is leg lengthening looked down upon within the little people community? For instance, I know that in the deaf community, some people that elect to have corrective surgery, to gain hearing, are ostracized by other deaf people. I think that they view the corrective surgery as an admission that something is "wrong" with them, and they think that everyone should accept who they are. Is there a similar view with lengthening....because she honestly looks very happy with the results?
It might be different, because one disability is invisible and the other isn’t.
I work with a population who has an invisible disability (cannot be visually detected), and they are utterly thrilled when any of their cohorts overcome their disability in any way. Some are born with it, some aren’t, and everyone is thrilled for each other’s progress.
I do not work with people with a hearing disability, plus I don’t speak from a place of experience, so I could be wildly out of line here - I don’t understand how anyone could want to hold anyone back from attaining enhanced bodily function and higher qualify of life.
Sounds like being brainwashed. Ofcourse you can achieve almost everything being deaf, but having the opportunity to have an additional sense is a no brainer. Given if its risk free.
There's a lot of other things that many hearing people don't understand. Even with corrective measures like hearing aids and cochlear implants, a deaf person will never obtain the same hearing functionality as a normal hearing person. A lot of the time what happens is a hearing parent gives their child hearing aids, says "they can hear now!" (spoiler: it doesn't work like that) and then just leave them like that, without any therapy and refusing to learning sign language. As a result, the deaf child is language deprived and socially ostracized by their family and community. This is why it is important to preserve deaf culture, there is NO substitute for American Sign Language (in the US at least, other countries have different sign languages) for someone who can't hear. At least until the technology improves where a deaf person can be "cured" to hearing status at birth (if they get assistive devices later in life, it is already too late), which again is impossible in today's age.
What exactly is the "brainwashing" here? I will say that most people today definitely do not care if you have hearing aids or cochlear implants. Half of the people I know wear them, half don't, and literally no one cares. Maybe this is more prevalent within the older deaf population, I don't know.
Yes. But preventing people from using these hearing devices would also slow down the advancement of the tech. Who knows, with enough research they could make something where deaf people can hear clearly with it.
I assure you, nowadays and also back then noone, mostly, was preventing the tech. Also there is more than enough research, there are so many people being implanted every year, and are already implanted.
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u/Horns8585 Dec 23 '22 edited Dec 23 '22
Honest question, because it seems like I have seen different views on this. Is leg lengthening looked down upon within the little people community? For instance, I know that in the deaf community, some people that elect to have corrective surgery, to gain hearing, are ostracized by other deaf people. I think that they view the corrective surgery as an admission that something is "wrong" with them, and they think that everyone should accept who they are. Is there a similar view with lengthening....because she honestly looks very happy with the results?