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It seems many deaf activists hate it when another deaf person gets a cochlear implant. Will this engender the same response from blind activists?
by FandangoRanger 6y ago
It seems many deaf activists hate it when another deaf person gets a cochlear implant. Will this engender the same response from blind activists?
- lazyasciiart 6y agoI expect not, because I’m not aware of any “Blind culture” equivalent to “Deaf culture”. There’s no unique language for blind people, for example - they speak whatever their family speaks.
- gostsamo 6y agoNo, definitely not. It'd be a contemplation of the guinea pig dilemma: should I be part of the first wave and get low-quality upgrade that is infinitely better than the current status but have my nerves chewed so badly that I might not be able to get the new generation of tech in five to ten years? or should I wait those years in a extremely unpleasant state but have a really high quality of life update later?