Well I've read your thread before, but back off. Now I guess I am going to answer your question while myself a CI user, and against implanize the children.
I can't help but wonder why is it so bad about CI?
Because CI is not for ALL of deaf. It will never work for all the deafies. Also most of the times, we the deafies do feel offense when some of deafies reject the sign languages and focus on the CI, making us look like a lame which are proud of our ridicilious deafness, or we don't want to feel that way, do we? We want to be proud of being deaf and proud how we communicate.
What about it that considered an threat to Deaf Communty/Culture/Identity?
If the CI are on ALL of the deafies, and ALL of the deafies know how to talk, would the ASL be important to them? What if they don't care about the ASL anymore? How can that help our community?
How is it different than hearing aid?
Well the only thing I can say about this is that HA don't require surgery which are BIG benefitically for those parents who want their children to talk, instead of implanize them and found out that the CI doesn't work for them which could mess the children up.
Why can't you be deaf and have CI?
Well, I am deaf and have CI
Why it have to be "you got ci? Ur not deaf anymore" or something that implied that we were trying to fix our hearing or to try to be hearing?
Only hearies who have less or no knowledge of the deaf culture and communities would think that way, trust me.
There's a lot of questions running around in my head. But I'll start with basics to see and maybe I'll understand or still confused about why CI is such a controversy and that it has to be single sided. And I see it all time "I don't need CI I'm proud to be deaf" or "I don't need CI I'm proud to be deaf and hearing aid is good enough" or anything related to it like it somehow cancel out the deafness in some sort.
Well please submit your opinion, explaination or whatever that might help me understand better.
Well while you got your own CI, I see it as your personal choice, that's why I told you to have a good luck about getting a CI. If I see a parents implanize their children without talk with the children about the CI, or even worse the children don't want the CI, then I will NEVER tell them a "good luck", sorry I have to be blunt, I still see it as abuse. Abusing the child's personal choice and freedom for his/her OWN body.
That's another reason why I didn't blame my parents for my own choice to have the CI, I have my CI as my personal choice, and when I want to use it, it would be also my personal choice.
And please be respectful in this thread and stay in calm manner to keep this from spinning out of control.
Sure will try to do that.
