Deaf People Want To Be Cured

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Ask a culturally Deaf person this: ‘If there was a pill you could take to regain your full hearing, would you take it?’ a majority of them will tell you no. Once, a deaf woman told me, “If I got my hearing back, I would lose my identity and I wouldn’t know what to do.”

Many culturally Deaf people do not feel like they need to be cured or ‘fixed’ of their deafness. Many deaf people have adapted with their hearing loss and found their identity within a tight knit Deaf Community. Often, they do not see themselves at a loss or ‘diseased’ but a unique group of people with a language and culture of their own. To many of us, deafness isn’t considered a disability but a part of what being Deaf is like; it’s almost as if it was an ethnic background.

With many technological advancement in hearing options for people with hearing loss, some deaf people do turn to cochlear implants or hearing aids. However, assistive listening devices such as these do not provide a cure for deafness. In some cases, they do allow improvement in specific areas. Some people who are late-deafened might already have some experience hearing and speaking, so they might have more benefits from wearing hearing aids or getting cochlear implants. This is an example of how diverse the deaf world is. We’re not all built the same.

The same deaf woman added, “Besides, if I was able to hear again- with all the strange, unfamiliar noises coming from everywhere I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night.”


0.o deaf people want to cured

you disagree? or agree? :shock:

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unrelieved it

impossible?
 
I'd want to be cured of both my hearing loss and my learning disability...but then I don't define myself by my disabilities...rather, I define myself by how I succeed despite them. I think with most people, they fear the unknown so they chose to live the only reality they know. It's probably what keeps most people in situations they hate...no one likes risk.

Laura
 
I would not want a cure. Not sure I can explain the reasons, just that's the way I feel.
 
I would take a cure, in a heart beat. But I don't identify myself by my ears and their ability, or inability to hear. I have been hearing, perfectly hearing. I have been HOH, for quite a long time. I am now profoundly deaf, and have been the last couple years. I am the same, I am still me. I still have the same feeling, ideas, beliefs, personality, hobbies interests, sense of humor etc etc etc. I am me, I am not my ears. If anything about me has changed I am less outgoing. But I still like to be social. I still like to be around people. I still like to go out to bars and clubs with friends even though it is much much harder. I think the only thing I can't do that I used to do is karaoke, but that certainly hasn't changed me, or how I identify myself.
 
My hearing problems are all in my wireing. That wiring makes me really good at some things and really bad at others. Not only does that wiring make me who i am physically but has defined my life experience. That doesn't mean i dont want to get better at the bad things but i don't want to get rewired. I like who i am.

Maybe not exactly the same thing but that's my two cents.
 
99.9 % of deaf would take hearing if they were offered hearing. CI and HAs do that for a majority. Gene thearpy can possibly do it too. This is an old issue. Before there was a CIit was the fad to say deaf want to stay deaf. When the CIs worked lots of deaf changed their minds and went for a CI. Nodifferent than if I were offered a 12 in penis
 
No f,,,%8$ing thank u.
 
Hell yeah sign me up for that cure! While I am proud of how I have overcome my disability I sometimes just get sick of how difficult life gets. Even with getting a job, I have to make sure to explain it and sometimes I get exhausted trying to conversate with people.
 
A reality check-today> Cochlear Implant DON"I "cure" DEAFness.Easy to test this reality-just disconnect! Real quiet!

One hundred years from now? Who will be living then?
 
I think so advise deaf not don't to pill impossible. scientist doctor doesn't work $$$$ for what for on medical for pill that is silly.

deaf accept to "deaf accept" that is why, deaf people refuse to medical cure pill you do it!
 
Smithtr said:
I think so advise deaf not don't to pill impossible. scientist doctor doesn't work $$$$ for what for on medical for pill that is silly.

deaf accept to "deaf accept" that is why, deaf people refuse to medical cure pill you do it!
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I don't need a cure. I am already superior! Deaf is just different, not wrong.

I am happy.
 
Yes! Absolutely I would. The worst thing for me is when I'm sitting with a group of people, and I can't keep up with the flow of conversation.
 
I want to be accepted for who I am as a d/Deaf person. I really don't feel that hearing people should not push and poke us for just because they want us to be hearing like them. They don't understand anything about deafness and need to learn about it. Getting a cure is not going to help us be hearing like them. No way. Mild hearing loss, maybe, yeah. But severe and profound, that is totally different thing. I just don't like the idea of surgery when you know perfectly well there is going to be something goes wrong like complication as we are different people. No one is the same when going under the knife. It is not an emergency. Geeze. :(
 
Would not make a big difference to me. One or the other it's both the same :)
 
Born hearing and lost it as a pre-teen....So, yes, if there was such a thing as a "miracle pill" I would accept it...Why? because I know what I'm missing...music...the voices of my children, the birds singing...list goes on and on.....

If I were born deaf, perhaps I would say No, as many people have posted......

But I do not let my deafness get me down.
 
Deaf cats are going to think those pills that gives them hearing is silly. They just want cat nips deaf or not.
 
I dont care so much about curing my deafness but I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY wish there was a cure for tinnitus.
 
AlleyCat said:
You need me to post the catnip pic again? :lol:
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Yes, this topic about pills to cure deafness is overrated. It has been discussed one too many times. I think that cat nip pictures would be more exciting.

Trust me, cats are would care less about their hearing or lack of it as long as they have a life time supply of cat nips. Cats are not going to like medicine to make them hearing. No one can interpret for cats what the medicine would do and how restoring their hearing would help cats live a more rewarding life. Cats live a life of a king or queen and would probably resist changes. THat includes deaf cats. They are kings and queens. Bring on cat nips. Forget the medicines.
 
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