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Originally Posted by prostock19
I am a hearie, and it's not that I want to be deaf, but if it was to happen to me, I wouldn't mind all that much. I think it is stupid that someone would want to make themselves deaf. I do admit, sometimes when I am with deafies, I would act deaf so I won't be the only hearie there. My friends think it is funny when I order from a menu by pointing like them.
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Yeah, I hear you—pardon the pun. There’s nothing ‘wrong’ with being deaf, and if I lost all my hearing I wouldn’t go blow my head off, but I am grateful for the residual hearing that I have. I wouldn’t want to give it up. My ability to hear is radically different from most people’s, and is very limiting at times, but every time a beer cap gets stuck in the garbage disposal or the lawn mower blade starts rattling off its shaft and gets ready to fly halfway across the street or I realize that I’m about ready to leave the house with the coffeepot still boiling on the stove I thank my lucky stars for what I have. Its not something that I would ever try to deliberately get rid of!