My Son Is Deaf, Finally!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YN5Fdz1En0&fmt=

I want to urge everyone of you to wait on commenting on this video until you have seen the entirey of this video. Please wait until you have seen the ending. Then place your comments.

In this video, his name is James, and this is his story.

Yiz

disagree completely.

by 18 they have missed 18 years and all their teen and childhood years without being able to hear.

deafness is a disability - not just different. A hearing person can do everything a deaf person can, and more - why deny children this and then ask them what they want to do. If they decide they want to hear, it's too late by then - they can't go back and relive their early life.

Wow.  If there is a procedure that would give my child a BETTER life that me, I'd sell my soul for it.  I understand his point, but damn.  That's pretty pathetic.

yuz, Can you please return that 10 minutes of my life that I just waisted?

Why is it, that society which has been conditioned to not accept anyone's disability is any way shape or form?

When a child is born deaf to a hearing parent, the hearing parent automatically cannot accept his or her deafness because he or she is born that way by DESIGN. They think it's UNNATURAL for a child to be born deaf (or blind or paralegic or mentally disabled or whatever.)

For example, in this conditioned society, most parents perfer that their child is to be born straight, rather than a homosexual. For the most part, parents cannot accept for their child to be a homosexual. Because they want their child to have natural born children (or being grandparents for that matter) whereas it can be done via artifical insemination or by adoption. But most parents wouldn't feel very comfortable with those choice either.

Why force a child to have a CI (Cochlear Implants) when it should be up to the choice of the child when he or she turns 18? Children today are being treated as if they are property. If a parent thinks a child is broken, they should be fixed. Some goes as far as to think if you don't put a CI on a deaf child, you're abusing the child. Therefore the child should be taken away and the parents be locked up.

Why can't a child just be accepted for the way they are and be loved just as the way they are?

To me, parents who refuses to accept what they are NATURALLY born with is abusing the child by not accepting what they are born with.

That's just me.

Yiz

To me, parents who refuses to accept what they are NATURALLY born with is abusing the child by not accepting what they are born with.

Are you for real?    I applaud you for not letting it interfere with your life.  I love the fact that you're a devoted husband working through her health problems.  You seem like a stand up chap, but It's a birth defect dude.


I'm biting my lip dude.

I disagree yizuman

I have a disabled son born disabled, who I would cut of any number of limbs so he could be well and not disabled anymore. his only has a mental age of 3 but I can see a part of his mind isn't 3 and he knows he could have done so much more and he gets so frustrated at times. It breaks my heart daily. His illness is a jail for him, fortunately we as humans can adjust and he can enjoy and live his life but the frustration does surface.

Reniaa

So what the child is NATURALLY born with is considered a BIRTH DEFECT? What say you when a child is born homosexual, is he or she a birth defect?

Yiz

That is just sick, and yes I watched it until the end.

I have a disabled son born disabled, who I would cut of any number of limbs so he could be well and not disabled anymore. his only has a mental age of 3 but I can see a part of his mind isn't 3 and he knows he could have done so much more and he gets so frustrated at times. It breaks my heart daily. His illness is a jail for him, fortunately we as humans can adjust and he can enjoy and live his life but the frustration does surface.

But do you unconditionally love him?

Many parents that I've seen love their child with conditions only.

Yiz

I have a disabled son born disabled, who I would cut of any number of limbs so he could be well and not disabled anymore.

Exactly.

But do you unconditionally love him?

Many parents that I've seen love their child with conditions only.

I don't believe that for a minute.  I think you're projecting.

Comparing deaf children to homosexuals does NOT make any sense at all.  Homosexuality is not a birth defect.

Why force a child to have a CI (Cochlear Implants) when it should be up to the choice of the child when he or she turns 18? Children today are being treated as if they are property. If a parent thinks a child is broken, they should be fixed. Some goes as far as to think if you don't put a CI on a deaf child, you're abusing the child. Therefore the child should be taken away and the parents be locked up.

If I child cannot hear they ARE broken.  If a child cannot see would you deny them glasses? 

How many children would give up their CI at 18 and choose not to hear?

Not only is this man deaf, he's also apparently retarded!  If I could spend $100K to give my child a sense that I don't have so that they could experience the world in ways I couldn't imagine, you bet your ass I would.  And they need this done early enough while the brain is still being wired up to take advantage of it.  18 is much too late.

Even doing this to a dog should be considered cruelty.  This man should have his nuts cut off so that he never does reproduce.  I'm just pissed that people can be so selfish to not want the very best for their kids.  You're 100% wrong on this one Yiz.

This man should have his nuts cut off so that he never does reproduce.

Amen!

That's the most ridiculous argument I've ever heard!  Some children are born with cancer.  Should they not be treated?  After all, treating the cancer would be abusing them by not respecting them the way they are unconditionally.  What bollocks! 

Like it or not, parents are responsible for the well being of their child.  To neglect their obligation to act in the child's best interest is horrible at best.

This is a fairly common thing in the deaf community, guys, the argument that they are fine,  if it wasn't there in the first place, dont fix it, etc.

What would the down side of Cochlear Implants be?

elder-schmelder

Wow, 

It's like getting a wonderfully nice  home but it has no Central heat and air.  Of course it not having central heat and air does not take away from the beauty of it or owning it.  But if you have a chance to get it and make your life better, by not having to cut down firewood and building fires, and having fans running in all the rooms of your house, taking constant showers to cool off or dips in the pool, why not get it as a luxury?  To add to the home you already appreciate and love?

What if because you do not have air conditioning you are unable to have certain people over because they unable to live in the heat, and by getting it, it opens a whole new world of association for you?  Would that not be awesome?  You would already have association with people that can tolerate the heat and new ones as well.

As far as doing that to his dog.  I don't get it, why would anyone purposely take hearing away from any living being?