Deaf vs. Hearing Impaired

Do You prefer to be "labeled":

  • Deaf

    Votes: 33 53.2%

  • deaf

    Votes: 3 4.8%

  • HoH

    Votes: 3 4.8%

  • hoh

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • Hearing Impaired

    Votes: 6 9.7%

  • None of above

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • All of above

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • No matter

    Votes: 15 24.2%
  • Total voters
    62
Very interesting opinions here. Any more ideas, oldies and join us, newbies. :D
 
mute is not a negative word. and it is not used only in correlation to d/Deaf people. Mute means cannot talk....you can be fully hearing and not have talking capabilities.


throat cancer, birth defects and god know what else can cause a person to lose thier speech.
 
Ariakkas said:
mute is not a negative word. and it is not used only in correlation to d/Deaf people. Mute means cannot talk....you can be fully hearing and not have talking capabilities.


throat cancer, birth defects and god know what else can cause a person to lose thier speech.
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Good post. Thanks for sharing with me. I didn't even realize that. :thumb:
 
I am not vote it :) .. I rather to said deaf or HOH.

I am hard of hearing but I go for said I am deaf. I dont like to see the word said hearing impared (sp) .. if other ppl said I am hearing impaired make me *sighs* not bother me. One time my mom said to other ppl that I am hearing imparired .. I told her please said I am deaf but she keep said and I keep tell her till finally she said to other ppl that I am deaf :)
 
im damn proud to say im DEAF!!!!!!! come on!!!!!! hehe... my mom hate that so much! too bad for her i guess! :) she rather me to label myself as a hearing imparied.. ugh.. i hate that word because it made me feel like im mental-challenge or somethings wrong with me... i always correct my mom.. she and i still fend this off at each other! hehe
 
Let's sing....

Give a D....
Give a E.......
Give a A....
Give a F...............

Let's together make a word says...... DEAF!
 
I don't mind what label a person chooses to apply to me as long as its not "hearing impaired".

I'm OK with being called all of the others. I myself say I'm hard of hearing, but other labels don't bother me usually.
 
ChelEler said:
To me, it kinda makes the difference. It's almost like having the power.. but really, there's no power there unless you work with someone in a higher class. For like an example... Deaf vs. deaf. Deaf is more like a dominant than deaf. the word "deaf" just tell the person that the person is just deaf, but not part of the deaf community. That's what I feel it means. So look at this with "HoH" and "hoh." I may be wrong.
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In other words, you mean politics!?
:P
 
Personally I think that its this obsession on labelling (Deaf/deaf/Hoh/hoh etc) that causes 90% of the disagreements/arguements within the deaf and hearing communities. I don't care what I'm called, as long as its not done in an insulting way. Life's too short to worry over whether somebody knows how to find a SHIFT key or not.
 
deafdyke said:
I use both deaf and HoH interchangabily for me . . . I am a journalism student and my copybook does NOT have the term "hearing impaired" as an acceptable term . . . I hate the archaic terms deaf and dumb/mute as well. However the gross majority of the people who use those terms are old. Back when they were young deaf-dumb or deaf- mute were acceptable terms . . .that context....they aren't calling the person deaf-mute....they are saying that they are deaf and cannot speak.
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I concur, deafdyke. I use the term interchangibly, as well. Like you, I also am a journalist; however, I have to disagree with your reasoning that people were called deaf and dumb because deaf (self-explanitory) and dumb, well, that's a lack of intelligence . . . a dumb person, actually. The AP Stylebook doesn't give any ideas, but, I believe that "hearing-impaired" is a medical term only and is not politically correct.
 
ChelEler said:
Very interesting opinions here. Any more ideas, oldies and join us, newbies. :D
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Who are you calling "old" ChelEler? I'm soon to be on the 1,000 post and have a ways to catch up to you, but we, are NOT old. Repeat that with me now. :whip:
 
illustrator said:
I notice that most hard of hearing are more like smart-ass and big ego than deaf.

When HoH tell me to stop use my voice because for sometime I make funny voice. It seems bother them. And also, they usually complain about my grammar. I don't like it. I felt that they show no respect to truly deaf. :mad2:
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I'm what you call hoh, illustrator. But my mother calls me deaf. I have a severe hearing loss, so, like the others, I don't know totally what I'm missing, other than this is all I have ever known.

With that said, illustrator, may I say that if a person doesn't like it when you make a funny voice, that's their problem, not yours. I see nothing wrong with your grammar, but did insert an "s" after "seems." You have to understand that I'm a journalist and proofread everything, even my own work many times.
 
VamPyroX said:
I know what you mean. The same thing goes for me. Hearing impaired makes me sound like I'm mentally challenged. However, when filling out a government related application... I must say hearing impaired, not hard-of-hearing.
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Allright, allright, nobody will come out and say it. I'm hearing challenged. *Sigh* We need at least one politically correct statement around here.

Truth be told...I don't care one iota. I just go by my moniker that I'm a hearing person who happens to be deaf! Let somebody else figure it out... :D
 
sr171soars said:
Allright, allright, nobody will come out and say it. I'm hearing challenged. *Sigh* We need at least one politically correct statement around here.

Truth be told...I don't care one iota. I just go by my moniker that I'm a hearing person who happens to be deaf! Let somebody else figure it out... :D
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:laugh2: Who's gonna argue with that?! Touche'!!
 
I am POWER DEAF!!!!!!!!! No one is allow to control over deafies' rights! PERIOD!!!!
 
I prefer "Hearing Impaired"

why?

I noticed alot of times whatever I say.. "I am deaf" the people freak out or back out or not talking me.. its like I am a diease to them.

When i said.. "I am Hearing Impaired" the people show respected and conserve the communicate without frustrations and like I am one of them..


weird.. so i prefer saying Hearing Impaired.. than DEAF..

For example in the other thread.. about Drunk DEAF woman.. some complained about "DEAF"
so.. she is deaf and she was drunk.. she made huge mistake.. :dunno: why complaining?
 
DoofusMama said:
I prefer "Hearing Impaired"

why?

I noticed alot of times whatever I say.. "I am deaf" the people freak out or back out or not talking me.. its like I am a diease to them.

When i said.. "I am Hearing Impaired" the people show respected and conserve the communicate without frustrations and like I am one of them..


weird.. so i prefer saying Hearing Impaired.. than DEAF..

For example in the other thread.. about Drunk DEAF woman.. some complained about "DEAF"
so.. she is deaf and she was drunk.. she made huge mistake.. :dunno: why complaining?
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I dislike word "Hearing Impaired" make me so embrassing. I feel like it insults me. The word "Deaf" is very old term since the Bible set the word "Deaf" in Old Testament and New Testament. I feel more comfortable with word "Deaf" The word Hearing Impaired comes from men's idea not God's idea. You see it clearly. I do not like to be labeled "Hearing Impaired" I feel it is so much ashamed of it!

Throwstones
 
:) I just asked my husband what term he prefers "Deaf" or "hearing impaired"?
He told me Deaf, because that is the way he was born. He says "impaired" it sounds like the Deaf are "broken" and they are not!!! I agree with him 100 percent. I myself like "Deaf".
When my husband and I are out with my son. People watch at how he signs, and they say to me "he cannot hear"? I explain to them, "he is "deaf". One couple said to us, we don't like to be called "old", we like "elderly" better, so they understood where we were coming from.
 
CODAchild said:
:) I just asked my husband what term he prefers "Deaf" or "hearing impaired"?
He told me Deaf, because that is the way he was born. He says "impaired" it sounds like the Deaf are "broken" and they are not!!! I agree with him 100 percent. I myself like "Deaf".
When my husband and I are out with my son. People watch at how he signs, and they say to me "he cannot hear"? I explain to them, "he is "deaf". One couple said to us, we don't like to be called "old", we like "elderly" better, so they understood where we were coming from.
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I feel that in America they call us Hearing Impaired because they think we are idiot! We look like poor hearings!

Throwstones
 
I think i voted hearing impaired cuz I can't remember what I voted since this was a old thread. anyway, I don't mind the term "hearing impaired" I understand the logic behind this word. it is not offensive or insult in any way. it is a generic term for "either deaf or hard of hearing or whatever"

you see "hearing impaired" is two word telling you that this person's hearing IS damaged(impaired) to some degree.

I will not correct those people who use this term anywhere because it is generic term.

Throwstones: bible didn't set the word "Deaf" with captial D nope.. just deaf.. it was the DPN at Gallaudet in late 80s the iginited them movement thus they thrusted the word "Deaf" in our daily life without our approval or consulting before they went ahead. in other word those at DPN didn't speak for me although I WAS there at Gally protesting on behalf of DPN and Gally while being a student at NTID.

During the 80's we just id'ed ourself as deaf or hoh when they ask me "you deaf?" that's it till the DPN at Gally changed the whole political landscape.

I grew up meeting lot of deaf people they never mentioned "Deaf" till DPN came to the view. Since the dawn of mankind till the DPN, the usage of lowercase and uppercase of the letter 'd' are strictly limited to grammer usage. DPN just created the word "Deaf" as new idenity for themselves.

so again, it was not God or bible that set it. :D Have a nice day... :cheers:
 
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