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Armchairs and Stares - Coggle Diagram
Armchairs and Stares
Deaf excursions into deaf and hearing territory
If not wearing hearing aids felt different or naked in a sense without them.
not having them in felt like a new experience
hearing aid users know the frustrating limitations of hearing aids
If not wearing his hearing aids he was stressed that he wouldn't be able to communicate
the thought that hearing aids equal normal
if wearing hearing aids, people figure that they can speak, and annoyed if it isnt good speech or they communicate with asl
Leaving the Armchair
Being mainstreamed
adapting to the norms of the hearing culture
Didn't really use asl unless with deaf friends
Hearing vs Deaf
What it is to be deaf person and what hearing people think it must be like to be a deaf person
privation of deafness
What is it like to be Deaf and deaf
One was the sense of hearing privation from those experiences of not wearing my hearing aids- that is the lack of knowledge of what it is to hear in a species typical way. The other was the sense of deaf privation from my experiences of wearing my hearing aids- that is the lack of knowledge of what it is to be deaf.
The ability of deaf people to focus is a much older argument for deaf gain, one that is part of a class of arguments about the benefits of auditory deafness as justification and compensation for purported or real suffering
Many people think that hearing aids are better
"Blindness separates you from things, but deafness separates you from people"