I don’t usually think about this, when I do, it’s because I read it somewhere – this time from a blog – Keep Buggering On!! She has a spinal cord injury which means she is confined to a wheel chair. Her recent post asks “Would you, should you?” – referring to whether you want treatment for your disability.
Well, for me, because I’m a “hearing” deaf*, I would take up treatment if there was one available… as long the process can be improved upon in the future as I don’t want to be stuck a minor improvement for life only to find out a few years later, a radical improvement can be made with a new treatment.
However, to be honest, I can’t see that happening in my lifetime, and with that outlook, I don’t get false hopes and just live life!
*apparently there are broadly two groups of deaf people – one who is reliant on or prefer sign-language – this group has their own subculture, and those who don’t/can’t/won’t use sign-language, which I fit in. It’s a funny old divisive world out there.
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Which one is that then? the Don’t or the won’t
I can’t do BSL but I bet you can understand them roughly if you in a room full of BSL users.
Don’t/can’t sign. I was going to take up some lessons when I was living in Luton, but it costed money and I was only on a graduate placement then. Plus, I procastinated and in the end, I got another job sooner than I expected.
I’m just curious – as a Deaf BSL user myself, I’d like to understand where this thing for being “hearing deaf” comes from. I think I’m more comfortable about being Deaf than I’ve ever been, insofar that I actually told a friend the other day: “I love being Deaf”.
It’s not that I’m uncomfortable or not, it’s who I am. What I’m not comfortable with is the divisive fractions between one group of deaf people and another – mostly between those who are non-BSL deaf people and BSL deaf people. The “hearing deaf” is just a descriptive phrase to describe myself, as I don’t personally recognise the distinction between deaf and Deaf.
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