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Originally Posted by Tabris Quote: |
Originally Posted by hevusa Quote: |
Originally Posted by Tabris So let's start a wheelchair "culture" because we all percieve the world from a rolling chair and I'll be darned if I can ever stand again. | I have no problem with wheelchair culture ( http://www.paralinks.net/wheelculture.html).
But two parents that can't walk and have a child that can't walk is much different from two parents who can't hear having a child that can't hear. | To a degree, but the method of communication isn't lost if the child can hear. There's no reason why the shouldn't be given that oppurtunity. ASL is what defines deaf culture. As I said, she'd learn ASL in order to communicate with her parents, anyway. But the majority of people don't know ASL, and by the time she's 18 and able to get the operation, she will literally have the understanding of not even a 1 year-old. |
Yeah, if her hearing could be restored it should be. It would give her a huge advantage in the world.
I had a friend in High School that had two deaf parents but could hear (so could his sister). When you rang the doorbell all the lights in the house lit up so they knew someone was at the door.  --- help me Instant Runoff Voting, you're my only hope --- There is little doubt that the world in general is more liberal than it was 50 years ago and beyond. Conservatives are simply roadblocks on the path to an ever more progressive and liberal world. What a sad existence. |