Georgie Porgie on her hearing

[andmakethemcry]

"Children of a Lesser God" is on. I love William Hurt. He could sign to me all day. Maybe then my hearing problem wouldn't be so bad. It'd be more like a quirk that gets me laid by hot guys like young, 1980s William Hurt

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[pullstrings]

Oh, dearest fuck, you've got to be joking, haven't you?

[andmakethemcry]

Why would I joke about this?

[pullstrings]

There are several incorrect and misguided feelings you express here. First, it seems you're under the impression that American and British English are the same. While that's a very State-side mindset, I assure you, English is far superior than anything you could muster.

Second, you speak of the "deaf community" as being undefined by a central culture. This is also terribly unfortunate for you to conclude. Deafness is indeed not a culture in the sense of a nation or a subset of such a nation - but it is a culture nonetheless. I don't believe it's up to you or anyone else to decide if something is not a culture, especially if you are as ill-informed on the subject as you appear to be.

My third point stands in the fact that you are not fully disabled and therefore are not part of the culture that is substantiated by sign language. Should we then argue that any culture based on a common trait or understanding (ie. music, race, or language) should be automatically dismissed as a unique phenomena? No. I do not think so

[strucktwelve]

I like you.

[burrowedtime]

I know a lot of people who are deaf think that if you're not deaf by birth, you're not really deaf and I've heard of others alienating others because of it. I don't know, it's hard to say. I mean I don't think we've got a blind culture or anything.

People ask me if I ever think about getting transplants.. if that sort of thing is ever successful, but I'm not quite sure I'd want to, which sounds odd. I just think it'd severely mess me up mentally if I could suddenly see.

[andmakethemcry]

Stevie Wonder has signed up for the treatment, I know that.

I can understand that perhaps not everyone would want to hear. But it makes me sad that so many people are leaping onto the "but we'll lose our culture" train. I lost my hearing when I was very young. I don't remember ever hearing. But I want to hear. I dream about it. The birds and the wind blowing around me...and then I wake up and feel like crying.

I don't know why people have to alienate others. We should be more willing to help people when we can.

[burrowedtime]

Yeah, I know. We share the same birth defect. My mom's always going on and on about it.

It should be the person's choice if they want to hear or if they don't want to. Someone tried to explain the culture thing to me, but I guess I don't get it. I mean I don't necessarily think of myself as disabled, but I don't think I'm some part of a culture. My ethnicity maybe, but not my being blind. I guess with me is that I suppose I have pre-conceived notions of what things are supposed to look like, and how I imagine them. And if that all changed, I wouldn't know what to do.

Alienating is definitely stupid.

[hatesbears]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA FUCK ME, THAT'S THE LAMEST FUCKING SHIT I'VE EVER FUCKING HEARD.

[agoldenchain]

[andmakethemcry]

Again, not my point. I was saying that Americans and people from the U.K. speak English. Same language, different pronunciations and accents, etc. But still.

Same language, different cultures.

[strucktwelve]

My, you are well hard!

That said, I don't think he was even talking about that, love.

[agoldenchain]

[scheherazading]

But is this (supposed?) deaf culture based on language alone? Isn't there more to being deaf than just sign language? I would imagine the shared experience of being shut off from the world of sound would also factor in.

Of course, 'culture' itself is so ill-defined, it's hard to draw the line between what is and isn't a culture.