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fandomsecrets2012-01-25 05:56 pm
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(Anonymous) 2012-01-26 04:41 am (UTC)(link)Thank you for your reply. Please please please tell me that's just a hypothetical, and not an actual case because WTF?!?! Who would ever think it's okay to harm their baby because he or she has a faculty you don't? I get refusing to be defined by and reduced to one's impairment, and not living your life feeling like you are lacking, but that's just incredibly sick and selfish.
And I didn't realize there was so much prejudice against medically deaf (is that the proper term?) people who still have some hearing. And from what I understand about the cochlear implant, it's a very complicated issue (electronic "hearing," uncertain long-term effects, impossible to reverse, etc.), and I honestly don't know what I'd do if I ever had to make a decision for my child. If it really was straight-out, uncomplicated cure, there's no question I would get it, and from what I'm gathering a lot of deaf people would take offense at that?
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The deaf community can get very insular, and it's really very abusive towards people who don't fit their definition of 'deaf.' I've spent my whole life between worlds -- a hearing world that largely ignores me and a deaf world that doesn't want me. Made growing up in a deaf school a nightmare, let me tell you.
As for the cochlear implant, it's a tough situation. The debate over the ethics of implanting versus not implanting centers primarily over the fact that for the implant to be most effective it should be placed at an early age, usually before the child is old enough to be aware of the implications and make his own choice. What it boils down to is that there are elements in the deaf community who feel that it should be left up to the child. Deaf people may swear up and down that they're "differently abled" and that anything that might help them assimilate into society at large rather than force them to stick to their little enclaves of deaf people is a tool of the "hearing world" to abuse them with, but the fact of the matter is, it's really ultimately up to the parent, isn't it? Granted, it has its complications, but you have to weigh the risk of that versus the known quantity of deaf education, which has honestly been historically lacking -- and if anything, it's only gotten worse along with education overall because like everything else, there's more politics than money or sense.
As far as I'm concerned, if I had a deaf child, I'm not going to put my kid through the kind of trouble I went through -- he's getting the implant. He can hate me later for it, but I'm pretty much saving him at least some misery.