>not wanting to have a disability that negatively impacts your ability to function and objectively lowers your quality of life is... le bad?Are deaf people retarded?
>>220073939its not bad but its a waste of time and money. he was happier when he just learned sign language and played drums with the retarded kids instead of being half deaf with a stupid looking device on his head. that whole sequence with the kids made me cry like a bitch btw. it was beautiful.
Some are retarded and cult like, with a crabs in the bucket mentality, dragging people down to their level even when they could live a normal life. In this characters case, yea, he was to far gone and should've just come to terms with it instead of fighting.
>>220073939Do deaf people still fight that losing battle? I remember there being tons of >REEEEE CULTURAL GENOCIDE OF THE DEAF BAN COCHLEAR IMPLANTStype plots of various tv shows in the 90s and 00s