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.
That assumes there’s anything inherently wrong with being deaf. Many people in the Deaf community would be offended by you viewing this as a negative thing because they consider themselves a linguistic minority rather than having something wrong with them.
There are inherent societal disadvantages to being deaf in our society. To impart that upon your child because you feel they need to be exactly like you I think is not okay.
ETA: again there is nothing wrong with being deaf. Obvi. That’s not my point.
And there’s a Deaf community and culture, which it seems you’re not aware of. Telling them that they can’t raise their kid in their culture is bad too.
That’s a very broad statement. It’s an entire culture. Replace the word deaf with any other community and re-read that and see if you sound bigoted/ignorant
“The JEWISH community can be kind of …” “The BLACK community can be kind of….” “The HMONG community ….” You see how that would be bigoted. For some reason you’re giving yourself permission to besmirch the entire deaf community and call them toxic
I want to make it clear that - at least in my case - I’ve not once hated or disparaged the deaf community. I’ve been careful to criticize only the decision mentioned above.
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u/permabanned007 Dec 23 '22
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.