The High Definite

i bet being deaf is a lot like having ear plugs in…..only i can take mine out again

…are perfect…

Isn’t inventing an entire language in order to help deaf people communicate an aid to a disability that improves a deaf person’s quality of life? Before sign language was used, did deaf people argue that their methods of pointing and making gutteral noises were the natural way and if people couldn’t fucking understand them then they must just have a problem with deaf people?

Thats retarded. And hearing is great. I can hear people talk. I can hear some girl tell me she loves me. What do you have? Nothing. You’ll never be able to hear a girl say “I love you.” You’ll never be able to hear music, and bionic ears would own.

Our son lost his hearing when he was 6. A year later he received a cochlear implant… the expression on his face was eerily similar… and his words, “I heard that!” carried such joy that now, twenty years later, I still warm at the thought.
Had Ryan been born deaf, as parents we could have accepted that. But he was born able to hear sounds and when he lost that ability through illness, and we discovered the possibility of recovering that which had been lost, we talked it over with Ryan and proceeded with the surgery. He now hears better that I do…
However, I have nothing to say about the deaf community in this town. There are no words to express what they said to us and how they made us feel. The closest word I could find would be to call them prejudiced or if deafness were a race. racist. Deaf Man’s comments are a good example of what we experienced… and it was not very pleasant.

you disabled freak
sound is one of the most important senses that humans are born with.
just because you’re too prideful to admit that you are, in fact, disabled, doesn’t mean you should go around doomsaying well-intentioned, working fixes for the disability.

I’m deaf myself, and I can see the message of what Deafman is trying to say underneath his poorly written hate message. While deafness may have been seen as a disability since the beginning of civilization, it is basically only recently we have banded together and created a community – or even a culture. Many of us, myself included, had faced heavy audism that ranges from hearing people ignoring us because it is too much work to write on a piece of paper to the automatic assumption that we are mentally retarded and incapable of taking care of ourselves.

I am not playing the pity card, I am simply giving you a small taste of obstacles that we face on a day to day basis. It is not so much different than the racism placed on Blacks or Mexicans, or the oppression that people in wheelchairs or CP must deal with.

Instead of looking at our deafness as a disability, we look at it as a positive thing. Deafness is what brought our community together; it is what gave us our unique form of communication that put us on par with hearing people and serves as a common ground for all of us to relate to. We very social animals with a lax set of social rules that you don’t see every day in the hearing world. Check out Gallaudet University sometimes, and you’ll see how well we established our community . Many of us wouldn’t trade our deafness for anything in the world.

I can see why deaf people feel threatened when the words “cure for deafness” is brought up. It would mean losing the very core of our culture – the very foundations of what tied us all together. Some of us don’t want that but when people say, “Well if you had an Implant, you could’ve been like us,” we feel like everyone wants us to give up the community we worked so hard to build.

For the people that want an implant, go for it. Deaf people *OR* hearing people have NO right to tell you what to do. the decision is yours . I find it sad when people lose respect for each other, especially in your case, Mark. Nobody should treat another like shit because of a personal decision. I hope the harassment stops.

Sorry for the wall of text. I’ll say something relevant to the photo I guess…

OMG the kid is SOOO cute! Imagine whats going through his mind! ^.^

Also, for the future trolls–lol i know im deaf! lololol deafies! i cant hear. Blah blah blah

There are a lot of senses which some animals have and humans don’t. I’d like to experience them.

ive never heard of a handicapped person (you deaf guy) being such a prick.

Why is it impossible to have any sort of intelligent conversation with an american, deaf or not, on any subject?

Somebody PLEASE amputate DEAF MAN’S HEAD.
He obviously isn’t using it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO STEM CELL RESEARCH (except of course DEAF MAN)

Maybe we should stop trying to cure cancer since it shows a deep hatred of sick people? Get over yourself.

Thats probably the most halarious comment i have ever seen in my entire life. Thank you, sir. However, I will not turn a deaf ear to your cries of the injustices of prejudice against deaf people.

After reading all these comments I’ve decided deaf people aren’t really people at all. Round them up and put them in camps so they can’t bring down the rest of society.

Deaf Man , you have psychological problems next to your hering problems.

Every sense is beatifull and amazing. They are SO AMAZING, so complex and powerfull that you can lack some of them and yet have a normal life.

Ok, first of all, just because of one comment that one deaf person made it doesn’t mean that you can generalize about all deaf people. Also, ‘Deaf Man’ is entitled to his own opinion and though you may not agree with them, try to at least respect them to some degree.

I personally like the way you deaf activists advocate withholding treatment for hearing disorders in children in a lame effort to expand your ranks. You are also anti-implant for children in the hopes of sentencing them to a life of alienation and hardship. How selfish of you.

Sometimes I wish I were deaf; when I try napping and fail, when my wife snores, when the youngest of my two sisters bursts into song…

Other times I’m happy I’m not.