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Post by slapthestickcom on May 17, 2010 20:44:48 GMT -5
Would you rather be blind or deaf? Most people choose to be deaf rather than blind but I want to know what the peeps on the moon think! For me I would rather be blind because I love music so much, but what about you? State which and tell your various reasons why! ;D
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Post by Trey on May 17, 2010 21:48:36 GMT -5
Blind for me. I'm a musician, so I need my ears. IMO, there are more sounds out there that fascinate me than sights.
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Post by rialvestro on May 17, 2010 23:28:42 GMT -5
I pick blind because I'm a voice actor, would be hard to alter my voice if I can't hear it... pluse I'm near sighted and nocturnal so I'm basically blind anyway.
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Post by Jake on May 18, 2010 1:09:28 GMT -5
What sucks about being blind is you can't see...a thing. And obviously what sucks about being deaf is you can't hear...a thing. But I chose deaf, because at least then I can lip-read to make up for a lot of what I've lost. I feel I'd be able to function more normally in society, although obviously it still wouldn't be easy!
(Oh, and congratulations Trey on how fast your post count is rising!)
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Post by Trey on May 18, 2010 6:18:20 GMT -5
Thanks Jake. I feel like I'm turning... you know.. into Click3ty and Zak xD
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Post by AGaW on May 18, 2010 7:08:30 GMT -5
Honestly, it was an incredibly difficult choice, since both are very horrible things to have. But...I chose deaf. Losing your sight is a lot more detrimental to your life than losing your hearing.
Deaf people can learn sign language to communicate with one another...what can blind people learn to do the same? Nothing.
I've never met a blind or deaf person, but I feel all the sorrow in the world for them. I can't even imagine being either...the thoughts alone make me feel very sad. Just imagine how alone they feel at times...
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Post by Jake on May 18, 2010 12:11:16 GMT -5
I've never met a blind or deaf person, but I feel all the sorrow in the world for them. I can't even imagine being either...the thoughts alone make me feel very sad. Just imagine how alone they feel at times... Yeah, I can imagine... But I would far rather be deaf than blind for the reasons you said - being blind is far more worse for your life. I met a deaf person before and I wouldn't have even known it if I hadn't have been told. She could hold full conversations and seemed perfectly happy.
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Post by lydia on May 18, 2010 17:53:54 GMT -5
I'm a musician I'd rather be able to hear than see.
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Post by zAkAtAk on May 18, 2010 17:57:27 GMT -5
Thanks Jake. I feel like I'm turning... you know.. into Click3ty and Zak xD I'm glad I'm included in the list of people that post a lot. As much as I love music, I think I would much rather be deaf. I think I would be able to function better as an individual. Besides, whoever heard of hiring a blind IT guy. At least I can get a hearing aid at least. We don't have an cost efficient eye equipment yet.
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Post by metallica210 on May 18, 2010 20:06:23 GMT -5
to all of those blind musicians, beethoen was deaf. (or it was one of the classical composers...) and he wrote lots of music. good music.
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Post by Johncoyne on May 18, 2010 20:18:35 GMT -5
Blind. It is possible to navigate based on echoes and sound. Sound can't be replaced with sight.
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Post by Trey on May 18, 2010 20:27:00 GMT -5
to all of those blind musicians, beethoen was deaf. (or it was one of the classical composers...) and he wrote lots of music. good music. He wrote music, but he never really heard music. People said he heard it in his head, but I hear music in my head all the time. I want something real.
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Post by slapthestickcom on May 18, 2010 21:47:17 GMT -5
I am quite surprised how many would rather be blind, usually its a 2:1 ratio of Deaf to Blind. Its amazing how many musicians are on here. One thing that I want to add about being blind rather than deaf is that sight is deceptive and quick to judge (how many times have you looked at someone and thought "Oh they look dumb/smart". Hearing, while can be judging, typically looks (pun not intended) inside the person: who they really are and their motives. Helen Keller once said, "Blindness cuts you off from things; deafness cuts you off from people."
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Post by rialvestro on May 19, 2010 3:27:09 GMT -5
Deaf people can learn sign language to communicate with one another...what can blind people learn to do the same? Nothing. This is not accurate at all. Any sense you loose will be made up for in the brain by making the other senses you have remaining stronger. Helen Keller was both blind and deaf yet still learned to lead a very productive life. When it comes to being deaf you have to learn sign language to communicate and unfortunatly everyone around you has to learn it as well weather they're deaf or not. Otherwise who you going to talk to if other people don't know how to comunicate with a deaf person. When it comes to being blind however, you can learn to adapt and no one else has to learn to adapt to suit your needs. I think it would be easier to maintain relationships when you're blind than deaf because there's no block in how you communicate with eachother. If you've ever seen "Dare Devil" or "Ray" (as in Ray Charles) both movies actually do a great job of explaining in detail how the main blind characters deal with their handicap. Obviously Dare Devil is a little extreme and unrealistic with the super hero aspect of the movie but there are some portions of the movie in his day life that they got right. But Ray being based on a true story is going to be a better example of how to deal with being blind.
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Post by Trey on May 19, 2010 10:34:42 GMT -5
Stevie Wonder can spot punch buggies.
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Post by Jake on May 19, 2010 14:27:09 GMT -5
Deaf people can learn sign language to communicate with one another...what can blind people learn to do the same? Nothing. When it comes to being deaf you have to learn sign language to communicate and unfortunatly everyone around you has to learn it as well weather they're deaf or not. Otherwise who you going to talk to if other people don't know how to comunicate with a deaf person. This isn't strictly true - deaf people can talk and lip read, and therefore can communicate through voice just as efficiently as blind people. I'm not sure if this is true for all deaf people, but certainly the ones made deaf later in life. I really find it a weird concept people preferring to be blind over deaf, but I guess it's personal preference. But all that I'm doing right now could be done while deaf.
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Post by rialvestro on May 20, 2010 9:48:49 GMT -5
When it comes to being deaf you have to learn sign language to communicate and unfortunatly everyone around you has to learn it as well weather they're deaf or not. Otherwise who you going to talk to if other people don't know how to comunicate with a deaf person. This isn't strictly true - deaf people can talk and lip read, and therefore can communicate through voice just as efficiently as blind people. I'm not sure if this is true for all deaf people, but certainly the ones made deaf later in life. Actually while some deaf people can talk, they don't sound normal because they're unable to hear the sound of their own voice. I don't completely understand how they're able to form words at all like this but some of them do. Even so because they don't sound normal they can be hard to understand just like a person with a thick accent. A deaf person and a Mexican speaking very bad English are about equally hard to understand. As for lip reading, this still requires some co-operation from other people because some words can have the same or similar movement to other words making it hard or impossible to read under certain conditions. Also bad if you forget that you have to be looking at them the entire time you're talking. If you get distracted and look away from them they're going to loose the conversation. Being blind is just about you coping with your own blindness. Being deaf on the other hand no matter what way you look at it, is like being a foreign country. Not being in a foreign country because if your in that country you should speak their language. If you're deaf you are the country because everyone has to speak your language.
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Post by stephen5000 on May 20, 2010 22:31:55 GMT -5
Blind. I often just listen to tv rather than watch it anyway. Also, my visual imagination is better than my sound imagination.
I'd just have to get used to books on tape.
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Post by rialvestro on May 21, 2010 5:36:27 GMT -5
I'd just have to get used to books on tape. They make books in braille, you'd have to learn to read all over again though. I don't really understand how braille works though. I would think doing the same thing with actual letters would be allot easier to read than a bunch of dots. In fact I've actually tried this with some movie covers that are made that way and I can feel the shape of the letters just fine and read with my eyes closed. The braille on the other hand is even harder to feel than it is to see, it's just a bunch of freaking dots. And no I can't read braille, I was just trying to see if I could feel where the breaks were. Sighted I can kinda see where one letter ends and another starts even though I don't know what formation of dots represent what letter I can still see that but just feeling it doesn't seem to work at all. Maybe it's something that comes from actually being blind that the touch is more sensitive to the different dots than a sighted person but I still don't understand why they need a series of seemingly random dots to read instead of normal letters that are bumped up.
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Post by Johncoyne on May 21, 2010 5:56:52 GMT -5
I've met people who are deaf and people who are blind, and they both seemed very happy. I actually went to the wedding of two deaf people and many people there were deaf. It was the quietest wedding I've ever been to.
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