My Son Is Deaf, Finally!
Four years later after a hearing son of deaf parents was born, the time was right. His parents felt ready to explore the option and made the decision to go ahead with surg...
My Son Is Deaf, Finally!
Four years later after a hearing son of deaf parents was born, the time was right. His parents felt ready to explore the option and made the decision to go ahead with surgery for him in Brazil. Last week, he had his hearing inactivated indefinitely by removing both cochleae from the ears. He became profoundly deaf like his parents. They have been immensely blessed with the choice they made.
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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
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.
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?
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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.