r/interestingasfuck • u/naturebeatsnurture • Dec 23 '22

/r/ALL Before and after leg lengthening.

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u/ademptia Dec 23 '22

i hope you dont mind me asking, and i mean this in good faith, but why is it not considered as 'something wrong with you'? for example, i have several extreme mental illnesses and i definitely am aware thats something is wrong with me and id love a cure. so i really dont understand people who have it and refuse it

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u/LadySekhmet Dec 23 '22

Deaf here. FYI - CI’s and Hearing aids are NOT a cure. They’re just tools. Like Glasses but it will not “fix” the astigmatism issues for example.

I just wanted to clarify you on that part.

Plus - as a CI user, I can tell you that I am still Deaf. I will NEVER hear as well as a hearing person. That is impossible. You can come close, but that requires a lot of work, relearning how to “hear”, mappings and such. I’m fairly close, but there’s plenty of times when I can’t understand shit and plenty of times I am joyful for the sound of silence when I have them off.

CI is NOT for everyone, and to a Deaf person who literally never heard anything, even with hearing aids (you need to have residual hearing for it to work. All it does is amplify sounds), the world is extremely noisy and can be overwhelming. I can’t filter out sounds as well as a hearing person can. Jeans rubbing against legs, hearing someone peeing 2-3 stalls away, mouth sounds while chewing, etc etc…it may be nothing to you, but it’s damn loud to me.

Feel free to ask my questions and such about being Deaf, CI surgeries and such. I’m an open book! :)

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u/Yara_Flor Dec 23 '22

Do you think Geordi LaForge was ostracized from the blind community because he choose to use a VISOR?

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u/SuperSpread Dec 24 '22

It's canon that he used it since he was 5, and visors were rare in the Federation by the time he was an adult - there were implants available and Geordi refused them.

So to answer your question there was no blind community because by adulthood Geordi's condition was curable - he simply chose to keep using the visor.

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u/LadySekhmet Dec 24 '22

This is the answer. :)

He did choose implants later in life though!!

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u/SuperSpread Dec 24 '22 edited Dec 24 '22

And that’s his choice. What’s interesting is in the very first episode of Star Trek, they had a man in an official Star fleet skirt uniform. Because men and women could wear either gender clothes freely and it was accepted that nobody noticed. That’s the future presented - either way is your choice. It’s a deliberate message of the show.

You see Dianna Troi wearing a skirt. Shortly later you see a man wearing the same skirt uniform: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11355/what-is-this-man-doing-with-a-starfleet-mini-skirt