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ganitsirk: thebirdinthecage: askinnyblackman: actionhank: chalcosoma: br8kspider: secretsbest: 8 month old baby hearing his mother’s voice for the first time with cochlear implant This is the most beautiful thing ever. thank you science this post always bothers me without fail I just…. that’s a major operation and change in the infant’s life and they can’t even make the decision themselves to have it or not. idk I just think things like that should wait until the child is at least old enough to say that it’s something they want. possibly the worst reblog comment I have ever seen on tumblr I hope you drown in the bath you know, I’m glad my parents waited till I was old enough to make the decision of whether or not I wanted to be deaf are you stupid? wait, that’s obvious, never mind leave it to tumblr users to ruin a perfect joyous moment Yeah I know everyone is dying to be deaf. Anyway, I will always reblog because this is absolutely beautiful. Ok, I can see both sides of this. We spent a long time in my ASL classes learning about Deaf culture and the thing that a lot of us hearing people don’t understand is that not all deaf people see being deaf as a disability - it’s an identity. Cochlear implants aren’t a perfect fix, and a lot of people with them will never have ‘normal’ hearing or speech patterns. In class we watched documentaries on the subject, and there were interviews in them with deaf people who said they wished they hadn’t gotten the implant because they didn’t belong in either world: hearing or Deaf. So yeah, it’s beautiful that this baby gets to hear his mom’s voice, but the issue of cochlear implants is a lot more complicated than people realize. -- source link
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