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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.