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This reminds be a bit about the deaf community arguing whether having cochlear implants as a "cure" means they are abandoning their deaf identity.
by gadders 3y ago
This reminds be a bit about the deaf community arguing whether having cochlear implants as a "cure" means they are abandoning their deaf identity.
- smeej 3y agoIt's especially hard in both cases because the proposed treatments are most effective well before the age of consent, and in many cases, before an age where someone could even express an opinion of any kind. The overwhelming majority of people, especially parents, do not want to hurt (their) children, but there's not any good way to know, today, what the consensus opinion will be by the time the child is an adult, or whether the child would even align with the consensus anyway.
- squigz 3y agoI've known about this for a while, and I do find it a bit strange - as an autistic person with severe visual impairment, I wouldn't feel like "curing" either of those things would be abandoning any positive aspect about myself. However, I am curious exactly how prevalent this thinking is in the deaf community? I'd love to see some surveys or some other hard data on how much of the community feels this way about implants.