ashandsass:themunchkym:As a hearing person, it is so important to educate yourself on deaf culture,
ashandsass:themunchkym:As a hearing person, it is so important to educate yourself on deaf culture, particularly the complex issue that is cochlear implants.It is a dividing discussion in the Deaf community (there’s even two different signs to use depending on whether or not you support the implants) and something you really should spend some time thinking about if you have ever seen one of these videos. (x)THANK YOU! I’m sorry with all the Ferguson going on, this is just as important and I’m tired of being denied captions every video that is a “must-watch or else you’re scum” and they have evidently no closed captions or subtitles.Everytime I told someone that I hate these videos they snap at me and go “can’t you be happy for them?”Who? The child that doesn’t even know what’s happening? The HEARING parents that will never consider their kid unique and an individual? The parents that think their child is “broken” and have literally said that to me? What if the kid didn’t even ask for something as permanent as a cochlear implant? Do you even know the BULLYING Deaf and hard of hearing people suffer?Do you guys even know why the Deaf DESPISE WITH PURE ANIMOSITY about Cochlear Implants and Hearing Aids? It’s your way of saying “There’s something wrong with you, here let us fix you to fit in a society that won’t even accept you anyways.” It’s telling us you will NEVER accept us for our disability. Cochlear Implants are PERMANENT and WILL make us permanently deaf because it takes the only good hearing we have left.And I absolutely DO hate cochlear implants. It’s forced upon and many children who have had to use the device are bullied nonstop to the point children have tried to kill them. I have suffered that bullying and it’s fucked up my mentality and views for hearing people very much. I am SHAMED from wearing my hearing aid nowadays and shamed even more for using ASL.And y’alls don’t consider accommodating us with your caption-less videos because you think we can just get “fixed” easily with our shitty hearing aids and cochlear implants the Deaf Community LOATHES or put in all our energy into trying to comprehend a volume below 10% for us to try and ‘hear’ you when we simply CAN’T and we struggle to be just as informed.Caps for emphasis.WE HAVE TO BUST OUR ASSES MORE THAN YOU TO GET EQUAL EDUCATION BECAUSE MAJORITY OF THE DEAF ARE NOT ORAL SPEAKERS. YOU DON’T KNOW HOW THE GOVERNMENT TREATS THE DEAF ESPECIALLY! IT’S JUST AS BAD AS HOW THEY TREAT THE BLIND.WANNA GO INTO HISTORY?ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL - INVENTOR OF THE TELEPHONE - IS A FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT WHO CONDEMNED THE DEAF FROM SIGNING! OUR USUAL WAY OF COMMUNICATION IS THROUGH SIGN LANGUAGE - OUR HANDS AND OUR LANGUAGE IS VISUAL.WE COULDN’T EVEN WAVE AT SOMEONE WITHOUT BEING TREATED TERRIBLY BECAUSE THAT S CONSIDERED SIGNING!THE DEAF ARE OBVIOUS, WE RELY ON OUR EYES MORE.GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY WAS MAJORLY FOR THE DEAF AND AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE ONLY IN EARLIER TIMES THE HARD OF HEARING COULDN’T FIT IN BECAUSE THEY WERE MAJORLY ORAL SPEAKERS NOT SIGNERS.AND WAIT FOR IT — DEAF PRESIDENT NOW!BAM:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtsYVeRuBuw124 years. I repeat: ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTEY FOUR YEARS we were not given a deaf president for Gallaudet University.But this oppression was LONG before Gallaudet. We suffered MORE abuse and exile than anyone - and not all disableds suffer thiis. It was anyone with an invisible disability. Yes, deaf is an invisible disability. We’re told to fucking DEAL with everything when we simply can’t because we were never accepted in the first place.People used toLock the Deaf person up in a closet with their hands tied behind their body or above their headsCut the flap under their tongue to get them to “talk better”If you were in old civilization and disabled hew things happened: you were thrown awayyou were killedyou were an indentured servant if you only had an invisible disability.Examples of abuse:http://www.thehotline.org/help/deaf-services/abuse-in-the-deaf-community/Examples the Deaf are prone to Rape and Sexual abuse:http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/-depth/07/15/12/deaf-children-prone-sexual-abuse-says-ngoAnd people wonder why the Deaf hate the hearing world so much. We’re the shitstain of the business world to you.Now you know why I hate those videos so much. It encourages hearing families to think their deaf child is broken if they don’t get a cruel device as a cochlear implant. They’re broken if they don’t hear like they do. They think being deaf is a sad world to live in and they choose to oppress and deny access to the Deaf community as support or consolation. They don’t even know how a cochlear implant works…And just recording them is fucking cruel to me. It’s not a happy moment. When the kid watches that moment, they’ll realize “I once couldn’t hear but now I’m ‘fixed’ to I can hear.”Hearing aids are no better but at least they’re not permanent.Hearing people don’t know what’s good for the Deaf. Fuck off and stop trying to hover over our lives like we don’t know how to take care of ourselves. We take care of our own kind.Fuck off if you think this isn’t as important. We’re more ignored than you and we BARELY won our rights and we’re constantly losing them.We don’t have the right to education like you hearing people do. We don’t even have the right to responsibility because God-forbid we inform anyone we’re a fucking menace. -- source link