Originally Posted by RedFox

I found another yahoo group for deaf wannabes with an open archive, so I could read the messages without joining. There are some posts talking about damaging one's own hearing, like by blasting or poking them. Those people need to have their heads checked.

One person who posted there was an interpreter student who said that the stuff was appalling and a disease. One of the wannabes replied by calling the interpreter student intolerant and unwilling to listen to their reasons for doing it. But that wannabe didn't give any good reasons.

I found a post there about another yahoo group with a name that made it look like it was for pictures of deaf people. When I followed the link to it, I found that it was a members only adult group for pictures of the members wearing hearing aids or pictures of people they see out in town with hearing aids. I wonder if any of us have our pictures there without us knowing it. It seems to be some kind of fetish thing.

I was reading this stuff to try to find motivations they have for doing this. The deaf wannabe blog was by someone with an autistic spectrum condition who was oversensitive to sound, so I wondered if there were other wannabes who weren't like that. I found some people there who seemed to want to become deaf because they had lots of deaf friends and wanted to fit in. I thought you could be Deaf without being deaf. There also seemed to be plenty of people in the group who were already going deaf and wanted to make the process faster. They need some patience.