My opinion of the video. I am genuinely happy for these people. Am I inspired to learn sign and lose my wires? Do I suddenly feel that sign will set me free? No. Do I feel I need something to make me fit somewhere, completing my identity? No. For me, personally, hearing (or not hearing) is something I DO, not something I AM.
I have a vastly different experience than the people in the video. We all have different backgrounds and hearing backgrounds, all of journeys are going to be different. There's no right or wrong answer here. We all take different paths seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because someone isn't on your path doesn't mean they gotten lost.
I didn't start off deaf and I didn't suddenly become deaf. It was a real slow slide into it, and it started at different times for my two ears.
Because of that I can someone what it's like to have single sided deafness. What it's like to be deaf in one ear and have mild-severe loss in the other, and have profound loss in one and severe in the other, to be profound in both, and to have no response whatsoever in both. I can tell someone the differences in using hearing aids with a severe loss versus a profound one.
Because of that experience I can say none of the people in that video should have had to "find" sign as an adult or teen. So I am very very happy that they have. Every child with a severe loss, and certainly worse, but even just severe, should have sign language, whether they're being main streamed or not.
