Nancy

How do you feel about "deaf wannabees"? Deaf wannabees are people who are naturally hearing and wanting to be deaf and/or impair their hearing to become deaf or HOH.

Here's a Yahoo group in this subject: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Deaf-Wannabee

Here's an exercpt in the opening website (see link above) where you can join to be a member:

This is a special meeting place for people who have a deep felt desire to wear hearing aids for pleasure even though not deaf, and for those who find that hearing aids and deafness have erotic and fetish qualities.

It is also a place to discuss the more radical topic of being a deaf wannabe, and a meeting place for those who have decided at some time in their life to 'cross the bridge' and choose to become deaf by impairing their hearing.

Deafness

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diehardbiker

I would be much happy to assist those deafwannabes! The charge is 20 dollars.... This includes 2 M-80 firecrackers, one on each end of ears. has to be 2 feet away from each ears... This guarantees deafness! Side effect? several days of heavy headache, and few days worth of ringing.. But usually they go away after few days.

hehehehehe

Tousi

Best thing I've heard all day!

Serendipity

Couldn't agree any more

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Steel X

or even tune up the volume to the highest as possible on your boom box with your headphones connected 24/7?

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Banjo

Anybody who would want to completely destroy one of their senses obviously need to get some professional help.

Steel X

just let 'em do whatever they want...if they want to destory their hearings, then it's their loss.

besides, the deaf community is already growing!

*evil chuckle*

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Catmandu

I concur!

The*Empress

Why would anybody want to be deaf... when there is no opportunties
to do so? People might try to get SSI by pretending to be deaf.
It ain't fun wearing stupid hearing aids, I hate that when cruel children
pointed their fingers at me and stare at me and asked me what is that!?!!?!

If I can hear and can talk, then I wouldn't be here. I would have
never gone to Gallaudet. My grammars would be so much better than this.
I would do so much better at hearing college... I would have a master degree by now... and I would even write a book about my Treacher Collins Syndrome and my life... And I would be a film director by now... and
not depend on interpreters and tty and everything else.
I would be able to socialize easily with people and talk talk talk, I would
love to talk on the phone.

But why would anybody want to be deaf? Can't even get a better job.
I tried to get into military in 1994... but I couldn't.

Only reason why I won't wear my hearing aids at CSUN, is because
I didn't want a boyfriend... I don't want a hearing boyfriend.
And I knew there aren't many deaf boys at CSUN, and I won't see
them everyday... cause I don't want them flirting with me.
I don't want a boyfriend, I just wanted to concentrate on my study at
CSUN.

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tekkmortal

When they get to become deaf, lets give em a big group hug to welcome em to AllDeaf!

diehardbiker

Thats way too slow and painful experience. Don't you know what the real M-80 firecracker... Not the fake legal one, Im talking about ILLEGAL, and REAL one. Man! I couldn't believe how loud it was! Even though Im dead deaf, and that I was standing about 15 feet away from it in the basement... I can't believe how loud it was... KABOOOOOOM! Probably something like 500 DB In fact that my friends upstairs was standing directly above where the M-80 is, they felt floor was jumped few inches! I wouldn't recommend one of you try this UNLESS you know what your doing. You could kill yourself, or lose one of your body parts.

Tousi

Biker sez: "dead deaf" LOL! Now you shall forevermore be called Broken Ears!

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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The*Empress

yeah prostock... that is true.
Cause an example, my black cousin hang out with white friends all the time, and she wish she is white... and she act like white people. Even talk like them.

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wildzerica06

simple.. some people who acts like wannabe deaf wud act like they can't hear gonna be good actor at that and should know sign language by then

Levonian

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!

deafdyke

Is this a "deaf" behavoir? B/c although my speech is pretty good, I always speak and point to what I want on the menu to avoid misunderstandings.

downing

I find this to be very odd. they can borrow my oldest son any time since he screams that can shake the whole house down.

Steel X

girl, they don't let ANY deafies join in the military.

(okay maybe they do, but not what other people do, but could somewhat do some helpings for them clean their clothes, organize their weapons, and collect information, etc...but they never let any deafies go into the battlefields or anything like that.)

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Cheri

LOL!! @ some of the members postings. Real cute guys.


One of my good old friend asked me what is it like to be deaf? I said well mostly silence, the next thing she hit me with a comment saying "I wanna be deaf just like you." I was thinking; You must be nuts.

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Peachy Lady

If I was in a deaf group with you in a restaurant and I see you ordering from menu, pointing at food items on the menu as if you were deaf, you would have brought a HUGE smile on my face and trying hard not to laugh. I can picture you doing that and my watching other deafies reactions. You're one of us, really...:-)

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Summer is here!!!

Tarafied

I honestly think this would have to be some sort of mental illness or personality disorder. I just find it bizarre.

It's a case of "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it". LIke when I was a small child, I thought it would be neat to have a broken leg and get crutches and have everyone sign your cast. It seemed really special at the time. Then when I was a teenager, I did break my leg and have to go around on crutches for 9 weeks. Why on earth did I ever think that crutches and a cast would be great? It certainly wasn't fun in the slightest.

Kalista

Did you tell them that you are an alien ?

Why I am wearing the hearing aids. I could not find a job ! I am very upset because I can't find a man. I need to become a hearing if you could give me a medication to cure my hearing level ?

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Enjoy the summer as much as we can. The times will fly !

signer16

For once, Banjo, I'd have to agree with you. I mean, losing my sense of taste, (though it would also have to mean losing my sense of smell to give it the full effect) could be nice because it would be a lot easier to eat healthy goods and stuff. However, I would like to be able to smell if something's burning, or a baby, or....
I really enjoy ASL, enjoy meeting people in the deaf community, and learning about deaf culture. If I did for some reason become deaf, I wouldn't feel like ALL HOPE IS LOST!!! NOOOOOOOOOOO!
BUT, it would be frustrating not to be able to communicate as easily with my family and hearing friends. Also, people learn so much about the world by "overhearing" other people's conversations; I would miss that. There are certain sounds, like children laughing, and selects types of music, that I would really miss.
Some people do want to become deaf because of the culture and the people, I know some CODA's have felt this way. They feel it would be easier to be fully in the deaf world, (especially if they have all deaf siblings, like a teacher of mine did) than be "mostly a part of both.
I think though, when a lot of people SAY they want to be deaf, and they are learning sign or don't know deaf people very well, they are saying to try and make the deaf person feel better. I was guilty of it the beginning of my first semester **hides in embarrassment** When hearing people don't understand at least some of the complexities that go into deafness, they say that to try and be polite rather than because they really mean it.

just my thoughts, ttyl

netrox

Yeah, they're SO explosive!!! Had a friend who popped that M80 and I couldn't believe how LOUD it was. Not only that it was loud, it also created a sonic boom - you could feel the pop MAJOR TIME!

-jeff

signer16

yeah, we had someone set one off at school last year, the WHOLE CAMPUS heard it, and many people felt it. One of my friends had the wonderful experience of being right next to it as it went off, he's blind, and then that made him partially deaf for a couple days, he wasn't too impressed. (knowing him, he was probably involved in getting and setting it off in some way, but that's another story)
People who want to go through pain to destroy their senses should, simply put, not be allowed near any sharp or blunt objects. Can you say straightjacket?

diehardbiker

Exactly! Very sonic boom, unreal!

Also, the boom is maybe 2 or 3 seconds long! Much longer than regular cute firecracker which have very short bang.

C_Dragon2005