The poll results so far has surprised me but perhaps not as much considering I suspected there could be many closeted Deaf people who secretly would want to have their hearing loss cured or restored should biotechnology be advanced enough to do so. What was surprising was seeing culturally deaf people answer "yes" to the question "If you have a hearing loss, would you like to cure your deafness?" In fact, more Deaf people answered "yes" to the question than deaf and hard of hearing people. And, just as well, more Deaf people answered "yes" than Deaf people who said "No."
Interesting. Although this poll survey is not to be assumed as totally accurate. There's always a caveat in doing these surveys but it has certainly brought more questions than answers here.
Here are the results so far from those who would want to have their hearing loss cured or restored:
25% of culturally deaf people said "Yes"
23% of deaf people said "Yes"
9% of hard of hearing people said "Yes"
Total percentage who said "Yes" = 57%
Do we have Deaf people who are closeted bigots who rail against advances in biotechnology on curing deafness secretly wish for this to happen so they can get cured themselves? If a Deaf person accepts a cure for deafness for him/herself someday in the future means that Deaf person is not really Deaf? Does such admittance disqualify that person as not being a Deaf person? Does it mean that person is not "deaf enough"?
If you haven't done the poll survey yet you can still do the survey.
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