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The Political Orphanage

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The Therapeutic Side of the Deaf Culture

I've spent some time with the deaf culture. I don't know where exactly we were with cochlear implants at that time, but they were new to me. And one of the big discussions that was going on in the deaf community was you'd have two deaf parents and sign language is a language like text. So this whole idea of wanting, you know, every deaf person have a cochlear implant, right? Is in a way underscoring, right? You know, in a way stigmatizing the disability, right? This, it's stigmatizes being deaf. Well, that's, that's a real issue. Right? The side that considers them set, because it

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