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To: UCANSEE2; WildHighlander57

[Since communication on FR eliminates all vocal and visible physical communication, and leaves only the written word, WHL57 is on equal ground ]

Well, that’s not quite true, since as you pointed out, he/she was lucky because he/she could not ‘hear’ the “vocal” on the video.

I lost much hearing around 30 yrs of age. I doubt you have any concept of how such an ‘unseen’ disability affects ones life.

Your repeated comments would be like telling a blind person they were lucky because they could not ‘see’ a video nor read the articles.

I know you were not meaning to be unkind, but it was thoughtless. We are not ‘lucky’.


114 posted on 04/02/2012 10:22:13 AM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch

If I had to choose between being able to see my family members or being able to hear them I’d rather hear them any day of the week. I feel your pain.

I think he was trying to make light, sort of like somebody joking about another person being lucky to be blind since they have a wife who looks like crap. Maybe not such a funny joke to a person who’s really blind.


119 posted on 04/02/2012 10:43:04 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: potlatch; UCANSEE2

Potlatch, UCANSEE2

Potlatch, thanks for saying what went thru my mind when I read UCANSEE2’s comment.

UCANSEE2,

I have been deaf/hard of hearing since birth.

I see/ notice things that others don’t .... but that only goes so far.

The operative word for this handicap is ISOLATION.

(we now return to regular programming )

Pictures coming out now put the mainstream media squarely in the dunces seat....
If any more CR@p happens and people are hurt as a result of the media (and baiters) instigation, they should be held accountable and charges brought against them.
Starting with each “reporter”.


121 posted on 04/02/2012 10:46:32 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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