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Post by Philip II of Macedon on Jul 12, 2016 2:20:01 GMT
Plus, nothing wrong with deafness anyway. I wouldn't know by web of you didn't tell That's a compliment to my English, earned in so many years of schooling from kindergarten to high school, thanks. I didn't wanted people to devalue my posts because of perceived lesser intelligence in Deaf persons even though I have a reading level roughly at the level of a master's degree and an IQ of 126. Honestly, I think people tend to look at deaf people as not as smart as them because they don't understand, not because they think deaf=dumb. They just see that the person apparently doesn't understand ehat they are saying and assume they have a mental disability or something, because deafness is much rarer. (I think, maybe I've just never noticed the deaf people.) So on the internet they'd be treated like anyone else if people knew. Maybe better.9 |
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Post by Desophaeus on Jul 12, 2016 2:37:34 GMT
That's a compliment to my English, earned in so many years of schooling from kindergarten to high school, thanks. I didn't wanted people to devalue my posts because of perceived lesser intelligence in Deaf persons even though I have a reading level roughly at the level of a master's degree and an IQ of 126. Honestly, I think people tend to look at deaf people as not as smart as them because they don't understand, not because they think deaf=dumb. They just see that the person apparently doesn't understand ehat they are saying and assume they have a mental disability or something, because deafness is much rarer. (I think, maybe I've just never noticed the deaf people.) So on the internet they'd be treated like anyone else if people knew. Maybe better.9 Possible. You brought up multiple points. I would categorize potential casues to assume Deaf persons has lesser intelligence... One: lack of ability to hear/understand sounds equates to a lack of intelligence (sorta of deaf=dumb) while it's just the simple definition of being deaf means someone can't hear, of course. Two: Deaf voices sounds dumb and weird, and some hearing people relies on audio heavily to make decisions Three: some people may go so far to rely on hearing things so heavily to the point of needing to hear it in order to think it. So logically, if someone else can't hear, he can't think either. Four: All disabilities are the same - so deaf=*Auto Corrected*s. Occasionally, a person in a wheelchair or is blind would experience being treated as a *Auto Corrected* too, but on a far less frequent basis, btw. Five: Bad English means stupid, but English is often introduced to the person in a real lousy and unclear way in schools because the child doesn't fit the mold for the hearing person. Also...Normally a person is supposed to have access to at least one language (usually the spoken language of the parents) to the extent where the child understand it in full sentences in a conversation BEFORE the child enters school. 90% of deaf children are born into a hearing family and grows up without being treated as a true equal and is often shunned aside from accessing the world of information. All of them definitely makes it too easy to create a perceived lack of intelligence in Deaf persons. |
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Post by Desophaeus on Aug 12, 2016 18:15:23 GMT
And that stops me from listening to some music if I could hear it a bit? I prefer classical church music, and I listen to that at the beginning of each church service I attend to. So roughly 25 to 35 min a week, my estimate. The speakers seems to distort the music a bit but it makes it possible for me to hear it though. I can't really fully judge for myself.  Anyway, NetherFreek, I am talking about the most diverse as in highest number of cultures and groups of people living in the country. Even if Lebanon has 70% foreigners, they're mostly from other middle eastern countries. Nothing comes close to the entire diversity all over the places of the entire country in America anywhere else. From Los Angeles on one end, to New York City on the end. Try find some place that would match the broad spectrum. Ah that's cool that you retained some of your hearing. Music is the flow of life I'm still extremely very much tone-deaf. I function mainly by relying on my eyesight. If we were meeting in person and you don't know American Sign Language, I would be writing on a paper to talk to you, and you would write in response, back and forth. Sorta like texting or forum posting, and I do that too anyway. Just understand one thing, not that I'm offended but I don't think it's "cool" that I retain some of my hearing. I never really lost anything important in life. Hearing is probably the least important sense a person uses, but it's also the laziest one. People have responded badly and stupidly when they had to use something else than sound to communicate with me. *facepalm* Anyway, if you have concerns, don't. I was not and have not been offended by the tone of what you said, Mountbatten. I wanted to make sure it's clear. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Picard on Aug 13, 2016 6:14:45 GMT
Ah that's cool that you retained some of your hearing. Music is the flow of life I'm still extremely very much tone-deaf. I function mainly by relying on my eyesight. If we were meeting in person and you don't know American Sign Language, I would be writing on a paper to talk to you, and you would write in response, back and forth. Sorta like texting or forum posting, and I do that too anyway. Just understand one thing, not that I'm offended but I don't think it's "cool" that I retain some of my hearing. I never really lost anything important in life. Hearing is probably the least important sense a person uses, but it's also the laziest one. People have responded badly and stupidly when they had to use something else than sound to communicate with me. *facepalm* Anyway, if you have concerns, don't. I was not and have not been offended by the tone of what you said, Mountbatten. I wanted to make sure it's clear. But despite this, you're better off with music than without, eh? |
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Post by Desophaeus on Aug 13, 2016 16:31:27 GMT
Barely.
I would say I enjoy the music in church, but I prefer to live without music in the other areas. I'm just that way. Life in boxes and logic.
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