DeafDude -
It seems that you have an ANTI-CI agenda going on...you're going all over the damn forum digging up old shit from a few years ago. You don't want a CI? Fine. But leave the rest of us alone. We are CAPABLE of making our own decisions and don't need your help nor do we need you pushing us away from CI and towards a HA even when it is obvious that there are some people who CANNOT benefit from a HA and who actually DO qualify for a CI like me, but you seem to think those people still would benefit from a HA. If so, then why did you tell me in another post that no HA in the world would touch a 120 dB loss? It's just ridiculous. We are even capable of catching audiologists doing something that they should not be doing, as Vampyrox has clearly proven. He caught the audiologist red-handed. We're Deaf but not dumb at all, we can catch people who try to do shit like this, just like hearing people can.
Quit with the agenda and let us make our own decisions whether we want a HA or a CI - we may be Deaf but we are most certainly not dumb and we do not need your "help". Our bodies do not belong to you, so bug off and leave us alone. We are 100% capable of making the right decision and we are 100% capable of doing all the research we need to do to decide whether we want to stay with the HA or go with a CI or go without either one. Most Deaf people I know will not go "ooooh cool I want a CI" and go get one...they usually say "no way!" and they usually hold on to their HAs and wear them for some length of time, even years, before they finally decide to just go without anything to aid their hearing, or they decide to go with a CI. For most Deaf people it takes several years to even come to a decision to go for a CI or not. It's completely their decision, so please stop pushing people away from a CI - it's THEIR body....even if the person has a moderate loss, it's HER/HIS LOSS and HER/HIS problem and if she/he goes for a CI, that's HER decision since it is her body. She/he has the rights to risk her/his moderate hearing loss for a CI if she/he is an adult. It's like women wanting to get boob jobs - people will insist that they are not necessary but some women will go out and get bigger boobs anyway even when they are fully aware of the risks of boob job surgeries...know why? IT'S THEIR BODY. If women have the rights to have boob jobs and transgenders have the rights to have sex reassignment surgeries, then most certainly a person with a moderate loss who is an ADULT has the rights to get a CI if the CI clinic allows it...it's HER/HIS CHOICE, HER/HIS LOSS if the CI does not work out. So...SO?! Leave us alone and let us do our own research and make our own decision and stop pushing your agenda on us. We are capable and intelligent enough to make our own informed decisions.
Besides, with your anti-CI agenda you are also making us feel like we are not capable of doing our OWN RESEARCH to make OUR OWN DECISIONS whether to get a CI or NOT...you are making us feel dumb and not capable and need "help" and it's rather insulting. WE DO NOT NEED YOUR HELP.
