The gift of hearing....do you cherish it?

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You would think that we would have progressed past all these articles and organizations that promote discrimination against the deaf. It is particularly offensive when deaf individuals adopt that heirarchy.:cool2:
 
souggy said:
.....I can't really turn a blind eye to the abuse that come with them-- oral perfectionism.
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I have no issues with other people's writing styles. I have been cursed in life with the perfectionist gene. Trust me, I have wished I could remove that gene many times. I am obviously LDA-mainstreamed, but I do not turn my nose up at anyone.
It ain't the style; it is the content that I judge.
 
Providing free hearing aids and services to people in various countries who otherwise could not afford one or that there is not enough audiologists to support such a population are not about discrimination against the deaf/hh but about helping them for a change. I think the discrimination comes from those who are against those ideas of helping children to adults with their range of hearing loss by providing them free hearing aids.
 
Copied and pasted from the Hearing Angel website...

Each child that receives the gift of hearing is another individual who can grow, prosper, and contribute to making our world a better place


Making our world a better place? That's blantant discrimination against deaf people...it is as if without hearing, we cant contribute to making the world a better place.
 
shel90 said:
Making our world a better place? That's blantant discrimination against deaf people...it is as if without hearing, we cant contribute to making the world a better place.
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You know... I have thought about learning Spanish Sign Language, then defecting to a country like Chile... do some overseas education...
 
I guess the answer is different for each person.

I am one that does appreciate what hearing I do have. Some of the posters here are making it sound like it is a bad thing for a D/deaf person to do so.
 
Babyblue said:
I guess the answer is different for each person.

I am one that does appreciate what hearing I do have. Some of the posters here are making it sound like it is a bad thing for a D/deaf person to do so.
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I don't think they truly mean that it is a bad thing to appreciate it. Just that it is negative to focus on it as the number one priority, because in effect, it is focusing on the weakness rather than the strength. :dunno2:
 
Babyblue said:
I guess the answer is different for each person.

I am one that does appreciate what hearing I do have. Some of the posters here are making it sound like it is a bad thing for a D/deaf person to do so.
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No, it is not. It is the attitudes against people who are happy being deaf like that bolded statement from the organization. That is what I am very against.
 
jillio said:
I don't think they truly mean that it is a bad thing to appreciate it. Just that it is negative to focus on it as the number one priority, because in effect, it is focusing on the weakness rather than the strength. :dunno2:
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Appreciating one's hearing or residual hearing and assuming that restoring hearing leads to a better world are two different things. I appreciate the hearing I have but I don't I need to maximize it in order to be a positive contribution to the world.
 
In a sense it does "restore" in the general sense depending on how much hearing loss one has. For these people, not having any medical access and such to help address their hearing loss is one thing but to suddenly find donated hearing aids and specialists to help them hear sound either for the first time or a long time is another thing. To them, it's a miracle from their own perspective.
 
kokonut said:
In a sense it does "restore" in the general sense depending on how much hearing loss one has. For these people, not having any medical access and such to help address their hearing loss is one thing but to suddenly find donated hearing aids and specialists to help them hear sound either for the first time or a long time is another thing. To them, it's a miracle from their own perspective.
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And I agree, if for them that's a miracle, that's wonderful.

But you can still make a difference even if you're profoundly deaf.
 
CJB said:
And I agree, if for them that's a miracle, that's wonderful.

But you can still make a difference even if you're profoundly deaf.
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There are different ways of doing so. This one, I support whole-heartedly what the Starkey Foundation is doing. And has the support of many people, including a lot of celebrities.
 
saywhatkid said:
I have no issues with other people's writing styles. I have been cursed in life with the perfectionist gene. Trust me, I have wished I could remove that gene many times. I am obviously LDA-mainstreamed, but I do not turn my nose up at anyone.
It ain't the style; it is the content that I judge.
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I'm like that with my own writing. I feel compelled to edit every one of my posts so they won't have bad grammar.
 
kokonut said:
There are different ways of doing so. This one, I support whole-heartedly what the Starkey Foundation is doing. And has the support of many people, including a lot of celebrities.
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I fully support their cause but I disagree with their motto, for the same reasons Shel does.
 
My hearing is important to me for several reasons
1. I need it for my job as I am a tour-guide and effective public relations is one of the key elements to my job performance. I can get away with not giving a verbal response to a statement to one of my questions "where are you from?" and the customer will sometimes speak below my range and I just nod with a smile. I'll also tell the entire group (sometimes up to as many as 40+ people) that I can only speak to the entire group... which will discourage questions or get them to speak loud enough for EVERYONE to hear. I use hearing aids (OTE) and thus must have them to do my job.
2. I love music
 
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