Posted: May 06, 2012 11:30 am
John P. M. wrote:Strangely (to those of us who can hear anyway), there's been and is still a controversy over this in the 'deaf community'.
There's this weird thing going on there, with 'deaf culture' being "threatened". It's a whole world I was unaware of not too long ago. I know a girl who have gotten this type of implant, and I've seen her having to defend herself on a Facebook page for deaf people.
Yeah the girl in the video was attacked and harassed by the Deaf community because they feel that she was lying as she wasn't "really" deaf. Basically, for people like this girl, you are stuck in no man's land, where you aren't functional enough to fit in with the people who can hear, and you're not deaf enough to fit in with the people who have a whole culture with sign language, etc. Then when this girl makes a breakthrough and manages to finally fit in somewhere, the Deaf community attack her because she calls herself, and correctly so, 'deaf'.
It's very messed up and disgusting that parents could actively choose to let their kid be disabled when it is easily fixable, and just as bad when they attack others for not wanting to be disabled.