I’m sure it’s a cultural thing.
It’s the same for the Deaf community.
*Hearing Impaired* is the hearing people’s term for them and they resent it. They do not consider themselves impaired and do not appreciate others labeling them for themselves.
They are Deaf (capital D) or hard of hearing and it is a point of cultural identification for them. That’s what they call themselves and that’s what they prefer.
<<They are Deaf (capital D) or hard of hearing and it is a point of cultural identification for them. That’s what they call themselves and that’s what they prefer.<<
They bask in it. They enjoy their privileged status of having a disability recognized by the ADA and all the perks that go with it but being able to do 99% of the things that hearing people can.
Like drive — which they do badly and dangerously).
Ask a deaf person if you could make them hearing today whether they would want that. 99% say no.
Then why were the liberals a few years ago telling us we couldn't go to church and sing, "Hear him, ye deaf; his praise, ye dumb, your loosened tongues employ".
Dear metmom,
I am viet Vet, and my ‘hearing’ is my disability.
How many times have you heard, in your life:
“Why don’t you just get a pair of hearing aids so you can hear like the rest of us?”
Once again, the ‘hearing one’ has just enacted an act of unknown bigotry, in the supposition of ‘how THEY can be like US’.
For someone who has had a hearing loss for a long time, when ‘issued’ hearings aids, at the demand of someone with ‘good ears’, the introduction of every sound, to the clinking of change in the pocket, to the bus shutting off the preset noise limiters (no sound), is quite disturbing, disorienting, and then hearing all the conversations you don’t care to hear, quite annoying. Never mind having something shoved in your ear all day long, that may or may not, work with your cellphone.
I ‘earned’ my hearing disability, defending my country from Communists.