Doesn’t the deaf community resist cochlear implants and resist any “cure” for deafness as an affront to their culture?
I thought that. But if there’s really a cure, I can’t imagine most people refusing it.
I guess some do, and probably get way more attention and respect that they should. I’m guessing you’re referring to the types who would try to deliberately engineer a deaf child so that the child would be closer to its parents’ culture.
I’m just hoping that someday, as I get older, there may be a way to get rid of my tinnitus and restore my hearing, which I’m sure will degrade badly as I age, given (like many of us from the Boomers onwards) have abused my hearing with loud dance clubs, concerts, and generally overly loud music. I’m 47 and I’ve already lost everything over 13 or 14 kHz (somewhat worse than average for my age) and the tinnitus drives me crazy sometimes.
Yes, but that's only a minority (very vocal, though). Most people in the Deaf community accepts people who have CIs because the times are changing due to the emergence of technology. Today, a high percentage of babies get CIs and for many of them, it is successful and they are able to function "normally" without learning ASL.
It wasn't always the case because CIs is a new technology and it became common only 20 years ago. At the time, it wasn't very effective. But we've gone a long way since then.