some deaf people dont look themselves as disability. do u agree?

Question

my friends are deaf but they dont look themselves as disability. they just cant hear which is not big deal. its not like that autisms, autistic, handicapped, mentally. Deaf people can do anything at work just because they cant hear. but they can speak with their voices. many of them dont want to use SSI income (welfare) because they dont look at themselves as disabilities. they have beliefs that they will work like other hearing people do. . theres so many devicies like TTY, bell relay operator everythwere can contact and cooperate with other people anywhere at work.

Answer 1

Most people I've known with a disability doesn't like people thinking of them as having one.

I guess because they've learned to overlook it they don't want others seeing them as disabled if they don't themselves.

Answer 2

Everyone has certain abilities and lacks certain other abilities. If you think about it, everyone has something they can't do. Some people can't lift heavy things. Some people can't learn well how to use technology. Some people don't see well. And some people can't hear. All of those people have skills and abilities to do something that doesn't involve those things. A deaf person is quite capable of doing many kinds of work, but there are certain jobs they can't do because they don't hear, just like someone who isn't very strong physically can do many kinds of jobs, just not ones that involve lifting heavy things all the time.

Do you see my point? Deafness is not necessarily more of a disability than other things that are considered normal, it just gets considered a disability because it's not "normal" compared to what an average healthy person is like. Deaf people are disadvantaged in some fields, but advantaged in other.

Some people prefer to focus on what they CAN do rather than what they can't do... focus on the abilities rather than the disabilities.

Answer 3

"its not like that autisms, autistic, handicapped, mentally."

I'm not quite sure what you're saying here, but if you're saying that Deaf people are unlike autistics because they don't think of themselves as disabled and autistics do, then you're wrong.

Many autistics have the same outlook (and parallels are often drawn between the Deaf movement and anti-cure autistic advocacy), and you've pointed out that the Deaf have devices that allow them to function in our society. Many of us on the autistic spectrum view ourselves as disabled only by society's incompatibility with our neurology. There is nothing intrinsically bad or defective about being Autistic, just as there is nothing automatically bad or defective about being Deaf.

Answer 4

I dont mean this to be disrespectful so i hope i dont offend anyone but if you lack the ability to hear then you are disabled. They may not consider themselves disabled because they want to be treated fairly and that term automatically makes people look at them different. But technically being deaf is a disability. Personally i think you are disabled if you need outside assitance to help you do normal activities. i.e. walking, talking, hearing, seeing.

Answer 5

I cannot really agree or disagree because I am hearing. What I can say is that often it is the individual, their abilities and attitudes toward those abilities that is the true measure of disability.
Charles "That Cheeky Lad''

Answer 6

being at a disadvantage doesn't necessarily make you disabled. people have a way of compensating for things. often deaf and/or blind people's other senses are more developed then someone who can see or hear.

Answer 7

First off SSI is not welfare, your foodstamps are. I am the mother of a "disabled" child and she does not view herself as disabled she views herself as DIFFERENTLY abled. She can do whatever she wants she just has to do it differently.

Answer 8

Perhaps, if they contend that they represent a "norm" of sorts, that reclassifies the majority of the rest of the human species who can hear as specially enabled, or even bearing actual super powers. Neat.

"Using his super hearing, Aquaman responds to a question...."

Hmmm, if they prefer to be "differently enabled" or "specially enabled" then so be it, as that is just a matter of semantics, and society has a common understanding of the nature of their condition regardless of the word games.