Ever been deaf? You hearing are blessed, you can access almost anything in the world. We Deaf are shut out of everyday conversation and learning you hearing have. It is hard sometimes to understand the automatic captioning that videos have and they can be confusing because they don’t exactly caption what is said!!
Try an experiment. Turn the sound off on the TV and try to understand what is going on. Try lipreading those people on the screen. Bet you won’t get far. I wish that all of you could be deaf for one day to experience what it is like to be deaf!
No, not deaf,
But I still think it is wrong to throw your problem at everyone else and make it their problem. It sounds like you want people to suffer right along with those at the college.
If you can’t enjoy it, nobody else can either?
That was and is Satan’s problem. If he couldn’t have heaven, no one else will either.
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Super duper extra privileged pushing an agenda from a very small percent onto the majority.
BTW, yes, I do have CC turned on my tv.
It's horribly isolating & normal-hearing people don't have a clue how to deal with it, and they don't make an effort to do a work-around on communicating.
I'm in the middle, born with hearing loss that has slowly gotten worse; am not quite a candidate for cochlear implants, so am in a race against time w.r.t. retirement... will my hearing last another 2 to 5 years?
I don't have a social life; all the chitchat and small talk and jokes go right over my head.
Please don’t take this the wrong way: Sound & hearing is a BIG part of my life, and while I have experimented with sensory deprivation (sound and vision, years ago), it is still hard to imagine that as a permanent condition.
However... It almost appears as if you are handicapping yourself. I’ve been around a decent while, and have had the blessing of, well, “so-so” sight, and good hearing over that time. But when it comes to, not enjoyment, but real learning, I’d have to say that 80-90% of what I have learned since I was a young child was learned by reading. (This excludes transitory stuff such as the daily traffic report, or physical learning, such as how to shoot basketball, not that I’m any expert at the latter!) I sat here after reading your post and thought about it a while: I truly believe that at least 95% of what I have learned in some sort of academic sense I could have learned if I was deaf. In fact, without the often distraction of sound (particularly music) I surely would have learned even more in some areas.
Now, that doesn’t mean I’d want to give up music(!!!). But, humans are adaptable, and most real “knowledge” out there doesn’t require sound to be communicated. I doubt there was much in the Berkley lectures that cannot be accessed in other ways.
OTOH, the Berkley free online lectures are (or were) a convenience. So, I’d also ask, how can this outcome, at least as it presently stands, be viewed as a positive? Or is spite your goal?
Would it not have been better for the plaintiffs to have spent their time and money working WITH Berkley and Gallaudet University to approach charitable organizations to fund and organize the addition of closed captioning to the videos?
I wish I was deaf so I couldn’t hear you come on a conservative web site and whine about how life isn’t fair.
DU might be a better fit for you.
Why should everyone be punished because you are deaf?