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[Cadaverous Pallor]

Is there the same sort of anger in the blind community for those that regain sight?

How could anyone begrudge anyone else the ability to hear? It's as if I'd kick someone out of my life for traveling someplace I haven't been or experiencing things that I can't. It just seems like jealousy to me.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Is there the same sort of anger in the blind community for those that regain sight?

How could anyone begrudge anyone else the ability to hear? It's as if I'd kick someone out of my life for traveling someplace I haven't been or experiencing things that I can't. It just seems like jealousy to me.

From my fairly limited experience* with this issue it seems that the Deaf community does not view being Deaf as a disability. And for the most part it's *not*. People who are Deaf can drive, shop, live their lives without much, if any dependance on another person. Where as a blind person needs someone to drive them places, help with certain tasks; are generally much more dependent on people. So the Deaf community doesn't see it as "let's fix this problem" because there is no problem.

*2 years of ASL and integration with the Deaf community through school and roommate. Also had a friend who was blind. Of course I defer to WB for everything. Please correct me if I am wrong.

[tracilicious]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Is there the same sort of anger in the blind community for those that regain sight?

How could anyone begrudge anyone else the ability to hear? It's as if I'd kick someone out of my life for traveling someplace I haven't been or experiencing things that I can't. It just seems like jealousy to me.

I don't know that there is a blind community in the same sense that there is a deaf community.

I think it goes beyond jealousy. It's that many deaf don't feel that being deaf is a disability that needs to be overcome. They look at it in the same way that say a person would about speaking another language. It isn't a disability to them not to know English, it's just a difference. Perhaps race would be a better analogy. Blac, white, deaf, is how they see it. It certainly is its own culture.

[Gemini Cricket]

Poor girl. She was text-messaging at the time. She wasn't looking around. Ugh.

Deaf beauty contest winner Tara McAvoy was walking along the railroad tracks from her Austin, Texas, home to her mother's workplace, text-messaging family and friends, when a train struck her, according to the Austin Police Department.

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[wendybeth]

Well, that pretty much backs up what I thought. Poor kid.