Deaf People Want To Be Cured

dereksbicycles said:
Yes, this topic about pills to cure deafness is overrated. It has been discussed one too many times. I think that cat nip pictures would be more exciting.

Trust me, cats are would care less about their hearing or lack of it as long as they have a life time supply of cat nips. Cats are not going to like medicine to make them hearing. No one can interpret for cats what the medicine would do and how restoring their hearing would help cats live a more rewarding life. Cats live a life of a king or queen and would probably resist changes. THat includes deaf cats. They are kings and queens. Bring on cat nips. Forget the medicines.
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"Admit it. You aren't like them. You're not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the "normal people" as they go about their automatic existences.

For every time you say club passwords like "Have a nice day" and "Weather's awful today, eh?", you yearn inside to say forbidden things like "Tell me something that makes you cry" or "What do you think déjà vu is for?".

Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator, and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work, are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others."

- Attributed to Timothy Leary
 
I feel fortunate in some way that I accept for who I am as a Deaf person. I am an ASL user. I have a great childhood, friends, family and good life.
 
in early days of deafness i would gone for cure in heart beat,but not now....i got other problems that came sametime as deafness,memory i find it so bad i feel suicidal with it..i had to give up alot not so much due to deaf but memory very difficult string words together.
 
rockin'robin said:
Born hearing and lost it as a pre-teen....So, yes, if there was such a thing as a "miracle pill" I would accept it...Why? because I know what I'm missing...music...the voices of my children, the birds singing...list goes on and on.....

If I were born deaf, perhaps I would say No, as many people have posted......

But I do not let my deafness get me down.
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Same with me, especially music. I lost mine at 2 and a half. I remember sitting on my mother's lap and listening to her read a book to me.
 
Wanna know something amazing? I HAVE undergone the oppertuntity for a cure. My hearing loss was caused by not having any ear canals. Had reconstruction....and initially it worked. I remember coming out of the OR, into my room and realizing I could HEAR! However (to make a long story short) the ear canals closed up. At the time I was devastated, but then realized that I simply had not come to terms with being dhh!
I can and do understand why a late deafened person would want to be cured (and I think any cures will be benifical for them...not childhood deafness)
 
Besides, if you were cured, you wouldn't have the superpower of turning off your hearing! Hearing people can't do that.
 
deafdyke said:
Besides, if you were cured, you wouldn't have the superpower of turning off your hearing! Hearing people can't do that.
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Hearing people have the ability to "tune out" noises when they are going to sleep....And some hearing people cannot sleep in dead silence, so they have a TV or a radio (soothing music) on.....Some hearing people sleep so soundly and hard, no matter the noise, they sleep thru it...some are light sleepers and wake up very easily....

Hearing people are also able to tune out other voices and noises while in crowds of people and are able to listen to the person they are talking with.....In other words, they do have the ability to "hear what they want to hear"....HOW is a question I don't know.....
 
rockin'robin said:
Hearing people have the ability to "tune out" noises when they are going to sleep....And some hearing people cannot sleep in dead silence, so they have a TV or a radio (soothing music) on.....Some hearing people sleep so soundly and hard, no matter the noise, they sleep thru it...some are light sleepers and wake up very easily....

Hearing people are also able to tune out other voices and noises while in crowds of people and are able to listen to the person they are talking with.....In other words, they do have the ability to "hear what they want to hear"....HOW is a question I don't know.....
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True, but ALL of it? They can tune out stuff, but they can't physically turn it off....
 
deafdyke said:
True, but ALL of it? They can tune out stuff, but they can't physically turn it off....
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Physically turn off noises?....We deafies can't either...as no matter how deaf we are we still feel vibrations and of course tinnitus.....
 
deafdyke said:
Well you can if you have hearing aids and CIs........LOL.
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Doesn't tinnitus get worse when you take them off.....LOL
being deaf is not a superpower. You drink too much of your own koolaid.
 
deafdyke said:
Not every dhh person has tintinuas.........
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Correct. Where did anyone else say that they all do?

Fact is, you can't just "turn that off". Your previous post about that was quite ridiculous, as Ambrosia and FF said.
 
ambrosia said:
Doesn't tinnitus get worse when you take them off.....LOL
being deaf is not a superpower. You drink too much of your own koolaid.
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tinnitus don't get worse when you turn a HA or CI off it just seems worse/louder since that's all your hearing and no sound to cover it up ... I've had that ringing in my head for years maybe I should get an unlisted head ... now pass that koolaid please I need to visit that alternate reality lol :cool2:
 
AlleyCat said:
Correct. Where did anyone else say that they all do?

Fact is, you can't just "turn that off". Your previous post about that was quite ridiculous, as Ambrosia and FF said.
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You can't turn off tintiuas which uck, but then again......dhh people CAN turn off sound ...that's all....Hearing people can't......heck, a while back my nephew was banging on the table......All I had to do was turn off my hearing aids, whereas my parents and sister had to keep hearing the noise.
 
Frisky Feline said:
I feel fortunate in some way that I accept for who I am as a Deaf person. I am an ASL user. I have a great childhood, friends, family and good life.
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When I met u in NYC, I could see you were someone full of confidence unlike many of us who grew up feeling insecure from not fitting in and trying to be "hearing" when we actually aren't. U are so blessed that u never had to grow up living life as a "broken" hearing person.
 
I do not want a cure. I'm one of those "failure/broken" hearing people, anyway. So... I wonder, if there is a cure, would oppression be more worse than what we face today? I think, society probably don't want to deal with those "failures" or "invalids" once there are cures for any disability. :dunno2:
 
deafdyke said:
You can't turn off tintiuas which uck, but then again......dhh people CAN turn off sound ...that's all....Hearing people can't......heck, a while back my nephew was banging on the table......All I had to do was turn off my hearing aids, whereas my parents and sister had to keep hearing the noise.
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Or they could make the kid stop.....:hmm:

If anyone ever tells you they wish they could turn off their hearing they are being facetious, they don't really mean it. It might seem convenient at the time they're hearing something annoying, but I guarantee they would not think it was worth being deaf or HOH all the time.
 
deafdyke said:
You can't turn off tintiuas which uck, but then again......dhh people CAN turn off sound ...that's all....Hearing people can't......heck, a while back my nephew was banging on the table......All I had to do was turn off my hearing aids, whereas my parents and sister had to keep hearing the noise.
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Stop it. RR was saying you can't turn off vibrations and tinnitus, your response was "Well you can if you have hearing aids and CIs........LOL."

Hence my response.
 
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