Deaf people, my ass!
I’m fuming after reading this piece of crap. So, the RNId purports to represent the 8.7 million D/deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK, huh? If the RNId’s latest campaign is anything to go by, it’s plain for all to see that they do NOT represent us at all.
How dare they come up with a slogan like: Imagine A World Without Sound. I don’t need to imagine it thank you, and guess what – shock horror – I actually like it! But the RNId being the RNId, they just have to go the whole hog and do that whole “poor deaf people” thing, with this introduction that makes me want to vomit:
Take a moment to imagine if you couldn’t hear birdsong at dawn or danger signals in the street, enjoy wonderful sounds like a baby giggling or listen to your favourite music. This site celebrates the value of sound. By joining in we hope you’ll appreciate the importance of sound too and will make a donation to help us continue our work. We want to campaign for issues faced by deaf and hard of hearing people, provide services to individuals and organisations and carry out vital research into deafness and hearing loss.
Oh puh-lease!
And:
Help us change the world for deaf and hard of hearing people
Well, the RNId hasn’t done anything for me up to now, so what makes them think they’re going to achieve this? I don’t want to be fucking cured, I want a BSL Act and equal rights and access for Deaf people.
That video clip, with a little girl running into a road to fetch her ball, and hey presto! she’s got an hearing aid so she could hear that huge lorry hurtling its way towards her and get out of its bloody way! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
What the fuck is the RNId thinking? Do all the people who work for the RNId actually know what they’re doing? Do they consult with the Deaf community at all (I seriously doubt it, given their holier-than-thou and we-know-better-than-you attitude)?
The thing that makes my blood really boil though, is that the RNId are asking for more money to “cure” deafness. Piss off! And another thing; they actually rely on public funds to run ridiculous campaigns like this. What exactly do they hope to achieve?
Oh yes, they want hearing people to feel sorry for Deaf people, so they’ll give the RNId more money to pay even higher salaries to their stupid hearing staff.
Let’s start a campaign to close down the RNId. I’m sick of them.
Tags: Deaf
May 10th, 2008 at 3:37 am
I concur,
Need to write to all MP’s etc and start a “Not in my Name campaign…”
May 10th, 2008 at 6:39 am
[...] in complete solidarity with GOD, Saltbar, Gwallgofi [friendly Leprechaun] and North OF The Stupid Line, and others, regarding RNID’s campaign, World Without Sound. It is actually quite derogatory [...]
May 12th, 2008 at 6:27 am
In the cause of ‘awareness’ it is sometimes neccessary to try and inform hearing people, the pitfalls and issues surrounding being deaf. As we are all agreed the RNID represents hearing people and nobody here is remotely a fan or member, what’s the beef ? Many many years ago when I had a hearing aid it was =virtually ear decoration, I couldn’t hear anything sp[oken to make sense of, however I did keep it on… WHY ? because it did assist me to hear some sounds, so yes, in that respect it a hearing aid or CI may well save a life on the road, especially for a child. If Rob knows the area (Risca), a deaf child died there, some years ago, run over by a lorry it didn’t see or didn’t hear, because it took its hearing aid out, who knows if they might not have saved it, had that aid been in ? Try NOT to let your inbuilt abhorrence of the RNID detract from the reality. I see no grounds for consulting the deaf community at all on this. Name one group or set of deaf people anyone of us can accept or recognise to do it that is respected by all ?
May 13th, 2008 at 11:57 am
MM
It is not hearing aids that saves lives – it is road awareness. You talk about one deaf child who dies in Risca(?). What about the hearing children who also die after being run over? What about hundreds of other deaf children still alive? They don’t need hearing aids! It is road awareness, for goodness sake! This advert campaign wholly misleading and a cynical tactic to tug on the ignorants’ heart strings.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:00 am
The coroner quoted the fact the child had delibertaly removed her hearing aid to go out to play, (Against parental request !), and was a contributing factor to her death. It is even more important a deaf individual who can benefit with an aid, WEARS it. The number with hearing is of course higher, but that’s simply bacause there are more of them. Road awareness is Look, and Listen….
May 17th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Yes Look and Listen…and then walk across the road, carry on look and listen. But when the ears are broken, still use your eyes – even more so….it is a horrific that the girl got run over by a lorry. If you are saying if she was wearing her hearing aid, it could have saved her life. Who knows, it could have. But what is the motivation behind this story? Children can take off their hearing aids and CIs for all sort of reasons – simply because they are children. I still think it a cheap gimmicky tactic.
May 24th, 2008 at 2:52 am
I wore an aid for years despite not undertsanding any conversation with it. The point was it could pick up ‘noise’ I utilised this to alert me to traffic, you use everything you can. Deaf children can’t play politics of deafness with their lives, they haven’t the wherewithall. If an aid COULD have helped and the deaf person takes it off then gets in a accident, it is a natural assumption it’s your own fault. A speeding driver can use that in a court to get away with things. It was probably the parents for not insisting, but even then a child can walk out the door and take it off for a variety of reasons.
June 29th, 2008 at 5:06 am
I always wore my hearing aid when I was a kid. Once I nearly got run over by a lorry, who braked and swerved to avoid me. Why did I miss it? Because it was a high street with lots of feet clacking on the pavement and my auditory senses were overloaded; I heard the lorry but was confused by the sound and stepped out in front of it anyway. Might have used my eyes more if I didn’t have the hearing aid in…
March 20th, 2009 at 6:27 am
very intresting
March 31st, 2009 at 8:41 am
wow im very suprised the way you guys talk about deaf people.. that very discrimination.. What if your child is deaf and do you rather pay hearing aid or funeral? I wear my hearing aid since i was born and IT VERY WORTH IT!. Sometime child have to take hearing off IF it rain.. do you think hearing aid is waterproof? NOT! IF your child is hearing-loss how will you be able to get your child attention? Do you rather walk a mile to get or you yell at her and make her come?? THINK TWICE. Thanks for reading this… THIS IS VERY IMPORATANT FOR PEOPLE WHO NEED HEARING AID AND LISTEN WHAT THEY NEEDED. if you are not deaf and then you dont need to comment this… PISS OFF!!!!