Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says

• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The deaf argument is that there’s no need for assistance of assistive tools. An all deaf town would experience no undue hardships unlike an all blind town.

  I’m personally on the fence about it, but trust me when I write that we’ve seen whatever your gut instinct on this is before. Your gut take is just a hearing person speaking against Deaf theory written by Deaf people and the people far more involved in it are probably not going to see it because the Deaf don’t deal with the hearing as much as other disabled groups do, for obvious reasons.

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  • DeprecatedCompatV2@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How do people who have gained hearing feel about it? It seems like hearing would be important for a number of things besides communication, but maybe modern life doesn’t require much?

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s a variety of opinions. Born deaf often don’t like it. The later deafened you are the more you tend to want hearing back.

      It’s not even about the communication per se, it’s also about the physical act of hearing which can be uncomfortable

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      • DeprecatedCompatV2@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s interesting. So if your brain isn’t developed to cope with hearing, it’s overwhelming similar to someone with autism?

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  • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Deaf people and hard of hearing people may be more likely to be involved in car accidents

    journal.nafe.org/ojs/index.php/nafe/article/…/27

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