[ SECRET POST #3125 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3125 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

SA

Just for reference, so others understand where I'm coming from, I would take a "miracle cure" for my arthritis in a heartbeat. Being deaf? Nah. I've made a good life for myself, and my deafness has about as much bearing on that as my eye colour does. IOW, it doesn't.

[(Anonymous)]

But do you have the right to choose that for others? Such as your own child?

Because while you say you'd be fine it, I have to tell you that if someone, say, purposefully damaged my brother's eardrums so that he lost his hearing, it would take all of my willpower not to kill them in retaliation.

And you can say, "it's not a big deal, he can make a good life for himself and his deafness will have as much bearing on his life as his eye color" but that is ZERO comfort. It's absolutely DEVASTATING to lose your hearing. Even if he lost it at a young age, before he had memory of it.

I'm happy you've found a good life. But I also think the phrase "you don't know what you're missing" is very applicable as well.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

But do you have the right to choose that for others? Such as your own child?

No, I don't, nor does my child. That's what I'm trying to say. If my child chooses, as an adult, to have purple eyes, then they have the free will to make that choice. Or to be hearing versus deaf.

It's absolutely DEVASTATING to lose your hearing. Even if he lost it at a young age, before he had memory of it.

Your first sentence makes sense, your second sentence doesn't. Technically, I "lost" my hearing during cell division in my mother's womb. That's long before I had memory of it, and I'm here to tell you, that's not devastating.

Hearing people losing their hearing is devastating, because they haven't had a lifetime of living with it. They're so unprepared, that it is devastating. But that's a completely different situation from someone (like me) who is born deaf.

But I also think the phrase "you don't know what you're missing" is very applicable as well.

...and this would be a prime example of the societal devaluing of a person with a disability (in my case, my being deaf).

Or, to spout an old cliche, "My life is different, NOT deficient!"

[bronzed.livejournal.com]

As someone who is losing their hearing slowly in their mid-30s I have to agree with you. It IS devastating. Yes its happening slowly due to a brain condition that comes ans goes, but having just received my first hearing aid and realizing how much I was missing that 10 years ago I could hear, I cried. I missed hearing paper rustling and the sound of socked feet walking in a home. But in a way I didnt realize I wasnt hearing that until I could again, and finding out its not reversable has been devastating - I actually need an aid in each ear but cant afford it. And now getting used to it, the batteries, things that people who have had a hearing aid their whole life maybe dont even think about is a real challenge for me.

Add to that I have other physical disabilities (the aforementioned brain condition, chronic pain, arthritis of the cspine just to name a couple), and mental illnesses including PTSD and MDD and GAD with 4 other anxiety related conditions) I have had longer to get used to the rest. This needing a hearing aid or I cant hear conversations in the room with me is new, and I am having a really really hard time adjusting to it. Much harder than all the other conditions I have. And I dont even know why. But anyway sorry for rambling, youre right is my point, it is devastating and also hard to handle when it happens to someone who had normal hearing until recently. I love my aid because it makes everything so much easier to hear but amazingly, I love turning it off when things get too loud just as much and I wonder if thats normal...

[solticisekf]

Good for you! That's great.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I would take it on one condition - I could still "turn off" my hearing when I wanted to.