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Deaf or Blind?
Posted by sjtavo • 9/24/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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Would you "rather" become deaf or blind... or be born as such... [disclaimer: I am in no way claiming one disability to be worse than the other - just curious which sense people choose to loose if they had the choice...]
Personally - I think I'd have to with with Deaf...you can figure out other ways to communicate but to be blind - and miss out on the vistas of Tuscany, the ease of CC television, texting.... I don't think I could handle that.
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While I would miss the world of sounds, I would say being deaf would be easier to continue my current life than being blind, given much of what I do both professionally and for hobbies involves reading, writing and visual arts. -
I would definitely choose to be deaf! That way you don't have to listen to your girlfriend nagging at you
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to be deaf either but I think I in this day and age you can still get your point across without hearing. For example, you can still use Twitter, Facebook, Blogs. But to lose your eyesight would mean that I couldn't see the picturesque mountains of the Yukon, so why bother living here if you can't see the scenery.
I would definitely choose eyes over ears! -
Deaf -
During high school and college a friend of mine and I helped another friend get her masters in phycology and she was blind. My other friend met (thru our blind friend) a deaf boy. It was funny to see my blind friend talk to him he had to sign in her hand. He coudnt talk he just made nosies with his mouth. After being around it all my life (my blind friends mother would blind fold us and make us learn our way around there house when we first went over there) I would have to say deaf. I cant see in the dark very good now and get scared going around the house at night so I couldnt go out in public that way. She had a seeing eye dog and he hated her. She alnost got ran over by a semitruck because of him. He did it on purpose we were there to watch it. But she was mean to him atleast I think by yanking him around every where. -
If I had to choose, and thank the Lord I don't, I'd choose born deaf. My reasoning is simple and life experience based. I lost a portion of my hearing for a year due to a cousin with bad aim who threw a lit firecracker and it went off by my right ear. It was rough but I was blessed to get the hearing back.
My Mother is 89. She's been slowly going blind for about ten years now. She's almost completely blind now, can no longer see more than light changes. This is the woman who taught me to write by example. She wrote a column for a local paper for many many years. She read almost as much as I did/do. She learned new music by sight to sing with a local choral society, she bowled, she danced, she flew through crossword puzzles and word searches, she wrote long and boooooring family newsletter and exchanged letters regularly with at least 20 to 30 people over the years. The loss of her sight is devistating for her. She slides in and out of major depressions and mourns her sight every day. She has never seen my granddaughter, her granddaughter's face.
Having seen this first hand I can not comprehend her pain. I am a writer, a reader, a photographer, I work with refinishing and restoring wood. To lose my sight would be a horror for me. To have had it and then to lose it, how terrifying. So if I had to choose I'd choose to be born without hearing so I would not mourn what I'd lost and to not have sound, for me, is the lesser of the two. -
Deaf; I had deaf friends in college and to me you seem to be able to get along better in life. There is not much to see in Louisiana (at least to me) but I still want to see it.
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