The family was very controversial to implant the cochlear implant into their child’s ear. To us, it would make complete sense to allow our children to hear. To the deaf culture, they would argue that one you are deaf you should remain deaf. They believe that the way you are born is the way you should remain. Coming from the parent’s point of view, they wanted to allow their child to have as many possibilities being deaf. They didn’t want her to change her identity and forget who she originally was. Her father prefers to be deaf and would rather “throw up a pill that could allow him to hear” to keep his identity. He believed that it is invasive to alter a person’s identity and would only create robots. While they want to allow their children to have as many possibilities as they could, it would almost seem like a disability to the other world.
In my point of view, I think that the parents are crazy to keep their child from having the implant. While some of the deaf culture was able to be successful in their own way with real jobs, the world is in fact changing. Jobs become biased and competitive to the very best. Communication is key in business to properly be able to lead a company. When comparing two candidates for a job, deaf and hearing, they would rather hire someone that can communicate properly and does not need an interpreter every time they want to have a simple chat. It would also cost the company more money to have to pay for the interpreter also. In our real and cold world, disadvantages such as deafness only make it harder to be hired due to the competition. Some jobs requiring less in person contact would be easy for deaf culture to get a job, but most jobs require humans talking to one another.
Watching the movie, it was hard to watch because my emotions would get so wrapped up in what they were saying. It made me angry when Peter and his family would continue to “yell” about their positions when they also do not realize what their child would be missing. They obviously knew their child wanted to communicate with her friends and was often isolated by speaking people because they would not properly communicate with her. As a child, it would be difficult growing up without communication because it is the time to make friends. I could not even comprehend the complication of middle school and high school being different from everyone else. Peter’s mom often said that people would mock him or make fun of him when she took him out in public. He may have not cared about what the speaking people thought of him, but his mother was often ashamed that he was treated like that. Especially in middle school when it is the time for bullying and clique development, it is only to the child’s disadvantage to be different from everyone else. She would be excluded from the popular girls and would most likely be made fun of just because she is different. It is sad that this continues to occur every day even with normal people, but those with a disadvantage are often mocked by the way they talk or act. It would only harm the child if they kept her without a normal life.
What it to be taken into consideration is if this is truly a disability or not. To my point of view, I strongly think life would be more difficult and there would be many opportunities and quality of life that they would not be able to experience. Simple things that we may not realize from the ringing of a telephone, pounding on a door, or even music would not be able to hear. The family constantly says “I would not even want to hear sound.” I don’t think they realize what they would be missing out on. It would be much harder to communicate with the whole world as they approach it without sound. It would be very hard to even be involved in a school sport. Without listening to a buzzer, or even music to dance from, I don’t understand how they would be able to know what to do. One simple example, but there could be a list of things that the family would not be able to do. They would make contradictions saying that they feel like they can do just as much as we could do. No one can be the true argument since I don’t completely understand the deaf culture and they do not understand what they are missing in the hearing world. It takes an open mind to try and fit into both worlds and try to make the best out of the situations they are presented with.
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