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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. |
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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.
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![]() besides, the deaf community is already growing! *evil chuckle* |
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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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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.
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J-MAC's quote: "People who try and fail are more superior than people who don't try at all" "If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny." Thomas Jefferson (1778) Avatar picture is Cape Hatteras light house in OBX. |
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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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(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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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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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. |
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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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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 |
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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? |
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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. Quote:
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Not that too many ppl are going to really respond to one of my posts, since only a couple of you do...but anyway, I am not deaf, I hear perfectly fine. I think it is disturbing that someone would want to make themselves deaf willingly. I have a couple of friends who are deaf, or hard of hearing. I personally want to know sign language for my daughter but I also do think it is a beautiful way to communicate...weird maybe, but I think it is. Hell I "talk with my hands" normally LOL I appreciate everyday the things that most hearing ppl take for granted, the sound of a child laughing, and the bird's songs, the sounds of water gently moving down a stream, and the list goes on. I personally would never want to miss out on those things and wished all ppl never had to. But in life things happen and ppl do miss out on a lot of thigns...but also those same ppl could experience things that the rest of us never would be able to. There are pros and cons to everything in life...good and bad will always go together. I try to look to the good in everything personally. Everyone who is deaf, to me has a beautiful way to speak...it is different to me, that is why I think it is beautiful, I love things unique and different.
But to others, to hear one sound would be beautiful to them. So why wish we are something we are not? To me, everyone whould cherish the good in whatever they have in their life!
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I am blushing now...ty hon Glad I am able to get to know kind ppl like you Have a great day!!
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