ZURFER: My Son Is Deaf, Finally! (Subtitled)

wow what a beautiful ochestration of an important point- after watching this video I agree with your opinion. I was about to get so angry with you and glad i watched the entire video

Now U understand how the deaf community feels. Hearing parents robbed deaf kids for CI!

I loved the comment. I thought that was funny. LOL

Maimden obviously hadn't watched the whole movie at this time, and apparently has since, thus the reasoning behind removing her comment.

maimden's comment posted:

who the HELL would take hearing away from their child?! The gift of music, of sound - to hear a bird chirping, waves rolling in, the sound of crickets. You can't FEEL the sound of a cricket. You took a precious, precious gift away from your son and I won't blame him if by age 18 he abandons you. You both deserve to be put in jail for what you've done.

I one thousand percent agree, at first i made the connection to a hearing parent wanting a hearing baby even though he was born deaf. Deafness is not a disability. Someday the world will see.

go you! :)

i agree that what we can and can't do shouldn't define us, but its not the inability to hear that makes them belong to that culture. A deaf person can be oral and have a hearing identity.. its all dependent on the deaf person. if a person is deaf and signs and involved with a strong group of deaf people it becomes a culture. they hold their own values and have folk tales and traditions.. do you sign?

I do sign. But you yourself stated the same point I was making. It's not the 'deaf' person or people that make it that culture. Tall people share similar tales, veterans the same. These are not their identities, these are their shared experiences, thus a hearing loss would not define a culture. The culture is the people and morals, truths, denials and ethics of that people, deaf or not. And why fight that it's a disability when a necessary culture occurs from it?