I found many of the anti-hearing to be angry little women with chips on their shoulder. I just shrugged them off at the time. All I do today is admit that I don’t understand it. But I have learned that recently they are compromising more... many are embracing the cochlear implant and ALS as a way to live. I think this is good for future generations.
Good to know. Oddly enough, the other day while on the train I did one of those time-wasters we sometimes do, and wondered if i had to give up sight or hearing, which would I give up? I figured hearing right off, but the more I thought about it, and my 35,000 songs on itunes, and my 5000 LPs and 2000 CDs, I came to a stalemate. So I find it astonishing that some folks wouldn’t want to hear, though of course I understand where they’re coming from as a matter of tribal pride. I want to tell them “You don’t know what you’re missing.” And in many cases, of course, they don’t, and don’t want to alter their identity as if something’s wrong with them. But...