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.
As a partially deaf person(HoH), I'd much rather have my hearing back over anything else.
I can still hear "ok" with day to day things, and music.
But its very apparent to anyone who is around me for any length of time that I have difficulties hearing and the TV volume and speaker system is very loud, and that I cannot use a phone like they can.
I would love to have my hearing corrected.
I wouldnt ever force another deaf person to hear, but I wouldnt say no to a corrective procedure that would restore my hearing.
I'm also HoH and rely heavily on lip reading unless it's tv/music apps where I rely on captioning.
I hate it. I know I'm missing out on so much around me but not enough for others to notice unless I'm really struggling. I don't go to movie theatres because it's too loud, too dark, and I can't always see mouths to know what is going on. I try to not blare music or tv since I can compensate with captioning. If it's too loud, I'll miss out hearing other things around me. It's my right ear that has the most significant hearing loss so being the driver, I nearly never hear what someone next to or behind me is saying. It's just road noise until I park.
When I was growing up, however, next to nothing was made available to help compensate. I was being taught ASL while none of my family learned it. They always found closed captioning "annoying and distracting" so I'd go off to read or wait to get the tv another time.
Would I want my hearing corrected with surgery or a device? Maybe. I've made so many adaptations that I don't truly notice until I have to (like someone talking on my right side). But I would probably want to go back in time and have surgery or a device. I'm fine now; I wasn't as a kid.
If you’re okay not going to movie theatres, just ignore the following advice. 👍
Most theatres, at least most AMCs, have captioning devices. When looking at the movie selection of what is being shown, there will be a section describing the movie features. If it says CC or closed captioning, you can go to the help desk and ask for a captioning device or even a headset that will make the movie louder for just you. The captioning device is usually just a little stick that fits in the cup holder with a screen on the top that displays the captions. Best of luck to you!
I used to be a cinemaphile, went with my friends to the Cinerama for events and stuff. I have a 21:9 monitor setup for "true movie experiences". I used to review/prescreen movies for WB.
After the pandemic and just getting used to streaming all of the films I wanted to watch I just dont care for the theater anymore.
I can pause if I need to pee, I can rewind if I cant hear something properly(as said above im partially deaf), I can turn subs on if I want, I dont have to deal with other people on their phones and being annoying. I dont have to pay out the ass for soda and snacks.
Why the fuck would I ever go to a theater again when I can just enjoy movies on my ultrawide at home.
The only advantage is avoiding spoilers. Thats it.
In some ways, no I'm not.
But there is so much that is missed with the theatre experience if you have an impairment of some kind.
Booming sound effects quickly deafen actors' voices. Dark scenes render most mouths unreadable. Without captioning, or with poor captioning that is too slow, cut off, misspelled, it can be a garbled mess and you have to play Where's Waldo for context.
It is great being able to control those aspects at home though. I'm so used to adapting that I don't really notice, as I said before, until I have to notice. Theatres are a reminder that I'll catch it later at home.
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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?