[ SECRET POST #3125 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3125 ⌋

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Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

That "hell and isolation" (it's really really not, trust me) can be fixed, by fixing societal attitudes towards the D/deaf, IMO. But that's too much to ask, let's stick cochlear implants in their ears that will give them robot hearing instead! (Just frex.) So that's the Deaf community's position on it.

OTOH, if the parents are hearing and want to mainstream their kid, raise their kid auditory-verbal (hello, this would be me), I can tell you with absolute certainty, that it was/is not my deafness that has irritated me/stopped me from doing anything in this life; it has been societal attitudes towards my being deaf (as opposed to seeing me as a person first and foremost) that has caused me the most irritation.

Example, "My brother had an operation and he was completely cured and didn't need hearing aids anymore! You should get the same operation!" Cue ten minutes of back-and-forthing, and this idiot's refusal to understand I AM NOT LIKE YOUR BROTHER, and you have a typical example from my life. The mouthbreather was absolutely too stupid to comprehend any kind of explanation, and I was never going to see him again, anyway; but it wasn't my being deaf that was the barrier in that example, it was the other person's attitude towards my being deaf.

Yeah, I get that it's nuanced. And I mostly support auditory-verbal therapy, and I know that, even if I lose what's left of my residual hearing, I'll never be a member of the Deaf community, even though I'm deaf. I still don't think it's right to make a decision for an unborn child, either way (that's the key phrase right there) as to whether they will be Deaf or hearing. That's getting into "designer baby" territory like whoa. From both sides.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

I was like you - mainstreamed in the late 1970s onward. It was apparently the "standard" of that era, though I am given to understand that since the late 1980s/early 1990s it has been more common to not push mainstreaming as hard.

For me though it was absolutely vital, I think. Being able to function auditory-verbal allows me to communicate in ways that are utterly blocked to me on occasions when I can't do that (for example in loud multiple conversations, I'm stuck and sometimes have to shut off my hearing aids).

But yeah, I've had people be total dicks to me back in my school years over having HAs; since going to university it hasn't been as much of an issue though.