Something shocking and creepy, deaf wannabes, pretenders and others

Just :dizzy: today.

Sorry - double post.
 
I had an interesting thought after reading Banjo's post about neural implant. What if people offered technology so advanced and so cheap, that it is only in form of a pill or a shot.. and hearing would be 100%... would Deaf people be pressured into taking that or be considered "transabled" if they stayed Deaf by choice? Or will they become hearing, but choose sign language as a main way communicate still?
 
I don't know why people pretend to be deaf. Most deaf people aren't
the nicest people on Earth. They believe in rumors. At Gallaudet,
Deaf people attack other deaf people. I feel most deaf people don't
really care about anybody but their own selves.
 
I find the response of some people about this VERY REAL condition really upsetting. Like Liza says you have to open your mind a bit more.

I think it must be really hard to have this problem. I don't understand why doctor's can't simply remove their limbs or whatever they want doing. It seems like the most logical thing to be done yet they will make these people suffer instead. This is so wrong.

I would also like to correct a false assumsion about Hypocondia, that it is a mild problem that a person exadurates. My mum suffered a lot from this and was always seeing the doctor for this that and the other so when she had cancer it took a whole year before they would take her seriously. 5 days before she died they were STILL accusing her of exagurating her conditions. According to my dad they said that her being French, she was bound to make a fuss over nothing or words to that affect. So if there was nothing seriously wrong how come she died 5 days later. People don't die when there is nothing really wrong with them. And if you don't believe me about this, she's buried in West thorpe Green burial ground and the name you have to look for is Jaqueline Ryles.

Another point I'd like to make is that them wanting to be disabled isn't exactly taking anything from anyone really. They aren't hurting anybody and the fact they use services for the disabled is a good thing as it is keeping these services a live. Since services tend to close up if not enough people use them so people with BIID should be welcomed with open arms instead of people being so rude and nasty to them.

I wish there were more deafblind wannabies with the cash to buy things like the optiocon or tactaid. Thus keeping these devises alive. As unfortunately they are now extinct due to the number of totally deafblind people being so small.
 
Surely you dont mean the HOH who call themselves deaf are pretenders? I guess this brings up another issue. Some deaf people wont consider you deaf unless you are 100% deaf. The deaf though can be anyone from the hoh and hearing impared to people who have 100% hearing loss.
 
Deafilmedia said:
I don't know why people pretend to be deaf. Most deaf people aren't
the nicest people on Earth. They believe in rumors. At Gallaudet,
Deaf people attack other deaf people. I feel most deaf people don't
really care about anybody but their own selves.
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I agree with you 100% :ty: for saying that.
 
webexplorer said:
This reminded me of a student in my class at college a couple of years ago. He pretended to be deaf and knows sign language. I caught him after class talking a teacher some questions without sign language. His teacher had to help and teach him in the class because her boss informed about him that he needed to catch up his skills.

A few months later, I finally asked him whether he is really hearing. He said yes. He told me that he has a learning disability. He never revealed to anyone expect me and his teacher. He had a drug problem in the past that screwed him up. He is better since then. So far, I haven't heard from him for years so I hope that he is doing okay. I have to accept who he is. Now, some people are pretending to be handicapped seem getting worse and they are about disadvantaging us nowadays. (Sight)
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The deaf are not the only one's who use interpreters. I have heard of autistic and learning disabled people using them too as their are visual learners and understand asl better because of their disabilities.

We need to remember this, its not just the deaf and hoh who have a right to use an interpreter.
 
I think if you don't really hve the disability you better get over yourself and start acting better. Pretending to be something your not will only cause you more problems. I have mental problems but I don't tell everyone I am a nut case or anything like that, I fight to get better. I am hard of hearing not by choice and don't wish it on anyone. If you fake it then have yourself commited to the looney bin and stay a long time because your obviusly in need of some kind of help. Don't say you are and act like you are something cause you like the attention grow up!
 
jasin said:
The deaf are not the only one's who use interpreters. I have heard of autistic and learning disabled people using them too as their are visual learners and understand asl better because of their disabilities.

We need to remember this, its not just the deaf and hoh who have a right to use an interpreter.
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That's something new to me. Wow. What a complicated social people. It could be next is a monkey with sign language to request for an interpreter. Gee. I doubt it, but I dunno.
 
webexplorer said:
That's something new to me. Wow. What a complicated social people. It could be next is a monkey with sign language to request for an interpreter. Gee. I doubt it, but I dunno.
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Primates dont know asl some have just been taught some basic signs, thats all. Someone out there wants to use asl to try an prove primates are the same as humans. Its a joke really, a complete joke. I've never seen a primate sign ussing proper asl grammar or classifiers.
 
Could I be called a 'Deaf wannabe'? I'm hard of hearing but my ears constantly hurt from various sounds which I can hear. It's something I've had to put up with since childhood: constant ear pain.

When I was younger I was sensitive to sounds because they would cause a lot of pain. Now I miss many sounds but there are certain ones which really hurt my ears and can continue hurting for a few hours afterwards - I've kind of got sick of the ear pain and people shouting into my bad ear, and people telling me,
"Well, you're not deaf, there's no such thing as hard of hearing, you're just ignoring everyone"

--- and being unable to get any help in my university, and still waiting for hearing aids off the NHS.


So, in a way, I wouldn't mind being Deaf because it would stop the shouting down in my ears. :D I'm not stupid enough to try and make myself deaf though, nor would I pretend. That's... weird. Bleugh. How the hell do you fake a hearing test?
 
(QUOTE=InnocentOdion;918774 ) Could I be called a 'Deaf wannabe'? I'm hard of hearing but my ears constantly hurt from various sounds which I can hear. It's something I've had to put up with since childhood: constant ear pain.

When I was younger I was sensitive to sounds because they would cause a lot of pain. Now I miss many sounds but there are certain ones which really hurt my ears and can continue hurting for a few hours afterwards - I've kind of got sick of the ear pain and people shouting into my bad ear, and people telling me,
"Well, you're not deaf, there's no such thing as hard of hearing, you're just ignoring everyone"

I get this one all the time, they are wrong, let them hear only 50% of everything and they'll be apoligizing.

--- and being unable to get any help in my university, and still waiting for hearing aids off the NHS.
My parents wouldn't let me get hearing aids cause they said My hearing was good enough without them and low and behold I am 75% deaf!

So, in a way, I wouldn't mind being Deaf because it would stop the shouting down in my ears. :D I'm not stupid enough to try and make myself deaf though, nor would I pretend. That's... weird. Bleugh. How the hell do you fake a hearing test?what hearing I do have is really sensitive too. I can hear the higher pitches really clear but the bassy stuff is more of a feeling than actually hearing it. YOur right how can you pretend not to hear something when it is about to burst your ear from screeching so loud?
 
dreama said:
I wish there were more deafblind wannabies with the cash to buy things like the optiocon or tactaid. Thus keeping these devises alive. As unfortunately they are now extinct due to the number of totally deafblind people being so small.
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Hah. I'd totally cuddle any deafblind wannabe. It'd be nice to have more of us around.
 
I think we've beat this dead horse enough - it might be time to let this thread die once and for all.
 
To those who joined just to push BIID:

The problem with BIID and most of the other alphabet excuses for behaviors which are eccentric, antisocial, attention-getting, boorish, or tend to waste others’ time and attention is they are only “needs” in the emotional sense.

To compare a “wishful-thinking” disorder with deafness would be insulting if it weren’t so pathetically laughable.

For the most part, they are just quirks that people want to see justified. It’s all part of the new entitlement generation: “I’m special, and I want to do what I want to do without any guilt and without having to earn it.”

I can sympathize only in that I have a few quirks that I would like to see justified by lots of eager women. I think I’m entitled to their attention. I’m also working on four or five initials to call my malady (that doesn’t include the word “pervert”).

Too bad others can’t admit that they are just mainly trying to justify odd desires and behaviors.
 
Aleser said:
Hah. I'd totally cuddle any deafblind wannabe. It'd be nice to have more of us around.
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Me too.

Honestly though, I don't understand what all the fuss is about. After all, there is power in numbers. Does it really matter how they became that way?
 
Chase said:
To compare a “wishful-thinking” disorder with deafness would be insulting if it weren’t so pathetically laughable.
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You may think so... but that does not mean that every single deaf person does. It used to be laughable to even consider educating a deaf person.
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The fact that we are blinded by our need to be the "best" and the most "acceptable" of the deviants does not justify the treatment of others as lesser beings.

So, to the people who joined just to push BIID: Good on you. You're paving the way to your own (and others) respect as human beings, in much the same way others did for us "normal" deaf people.
 
Aleser said:
You may think so... but that does not mean that every single deaf person does. It used to be laughable to even consider educating a deaf person.

The fact that we are blinded by our need to be the "best" and the most "acceptable" of the deviants does not justify the treatment of others as lesser beings.
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I do think so, and I was very clear about; no "may" was implied. Yes, I know there are deaf people with such self-contempt as to call themselves deviants. But when you say "we," you certainly don't speak for me, nor I doubt the majority of self-respecting deafies.

I don't need to be best at anything. I'm certainly not a deviant because I'm deaf.

Those suffering from selfish desires that they call "needs" are not bad people or lesser beings. It's their lack of self-control and self-respect, coupled with the belief that they have a "right" to invent disabilities and defraud the public by faking them that is terribly wrong, if only because when they are discovered, it makes those with legitimate problems suspect and makes it all the more difficult for them to get reasonable accommodations.

You are entitled to your opinion, misguided as it may be, but those fakers are not entitled to cause the additional problems they cause.
 
Deaf

I haven't read whole this thread...
I am also a deaf wannabe, I'm not interested in pretending deafness, I need to be completely deaf.
I hate noises people make, I am very aggressive when I hear sounds people make while eating, I hate several voices, breathing, coughing etc....
I have this problem since childhood, cca from the 6-7 years of age, I couldn't sleep, while I heard my sister breathing /we shared one room/, so I used to sleep covering my ears with a pillow. I suppose, that it is some neurological problem or what, that some noises stimulate the part of brain, which si responsible for anger management.
I don't feel comfortable and what is worse, I make people in my nearness also suffer.
So I decided, it would be better, to become deaf, but I have no idea, how to achieve that :buk:
It will be great, when I won't hear nothing, but silence.
I will miss music, though, but it's worth it.
 
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