How do you feel about "deaf wannabees"?

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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.
 
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
 
diehardbiker65 said:
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
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or even tune up the volume to the highest as possible on your boom box with your headphones connected 24/7? :D
 
Anybody who would want to completely destroy one of their senses obviously need to get some professional help.
 
Banjo said:
Anybody who would want to completely destroy one of their senses obviously need to get some professional help.
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just let 'em do whatever they want...if they want to destory their hearings, then it's their loss. :D

besides, the deaf community is already growing!

*evil chuckle*
 
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.
 
When they get to become deaf, lets give em a big group hug to welcome em to AllDeaf! :grouphug:
 
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.

Steel said:
or even tune up the volume to the highest as possible on your boom box with your headphones connected 24/7? :D
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Biker sez: "dead deaf" LOL! Now you shall forevermore be called Broken Ears!
 
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.
 
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.
 
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 :roll:
 
prostock19 said:
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!
 
My friends think it is funny when I order from a menu by pointing like them.
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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.
 
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. :twisted:
 
Miss*Pinocchio said:
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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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.)
 
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. :giggle:
 
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