I remember reading before how getting your hearing repaired through surgery (when possible) can get you ostracized from deaf communities. Some consider their deafness to be part of their identity, and regaining your hearing can be treated as sacrificing your identity/heritage.
The controversy is sometimes difficult for hearing people to understand. Hearing people often assume that Deaf people would naturally want to take advantage of any method that could lead them to become part of the hearing world — especially cochlear implants, the most advanced hearing technology we have. In reality, that assumption is far from true. To members of Deaf culture, American Sign Language is a cultural cornerstone. Because Deaf children who receive cochlear implants at a young age will likely be educated in the oralist method, they are less likely to learn ASL during their early years, which are the most critical years of language acquisition. For some Deaf parents, that would result in a child who speaks a different language than they do.
The article covers a lot more than that, so I recommend reading it to get the full picture.
so like i have autism (and probably adhd) and i get their sentiment, but fucking hell i’m not gonna say no to getting rid of the overstimulation and autistic breakdowns…
There’s a difference between a function variation and a disability, and being deaf is absolutely a fucking disability as it’s pretty nice to be able to hear oncoming trains and avoid being turned into a red mist.
also hey how about instead of being gatekeepers, they teach other people to sign? i’d sure like to have sign as a fallback for when my autistic brain decides speaking isn’t happening today. Or, you know, when you’re far away from someone and don’t want to shout at the top of your lungs…
IIRC there’s a few novel treatments (one using electro simulation of the tongue) and some new studies on the cause of tinnitus (auditory nerve overcompensating) that may lead us towards a cure.
Would have to do some digging to find those sources though.
They’d have to actually figure out what causes it to begin with, first. They can look at 100 people that were around loud noises that damage ears and often cause tinnitus, but couldn’t tell you why 50 of those people would have ringing, while the other 50 don’t. Let alone the people who have it without being around damaging noise. Or how I went deaf in one ear from nerve damage but have no ringing, even though most people who go deaf from nerve damage do have ringing.
I gave it a few tries before, but I must be doing it incorrectly or in a less than ideal fashion, as the effect never seem to last more than a couple of seconds for me.
So everyone experiences it exactly like you? Come on dude. Ever heard of chronic tinnitus? And what you have sounds like occasional ear ringing. Not everyone is just like you.
I cannot fucking wait for hearing loss to be something we completely, 100% tackle. I want to listen to LOUD ass music, ALL DAY, EVERY DAY, but if I do, I’ll lose the ability to hear it.
So I’m currently trying to figure out if this product that straps bass-speakers to your chest might help my obsession. :D
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