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    If you had to be one of the following what would it be?

    Posts: 4,251 Member
    edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
    Blind, Mute, or Deaf?

    I was watching a news story about a blind beauty contestant.. and weighing all the pros and cons of each.


    I'd say deaf. Because words can be so cruel, people can talk so ugly.

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    • Posts: 441 Member
      Mute. It would at least excuse me from talking on the phone, which I despise!
    • Posts: 4,251 Member
      Mute. It would at least excuse me from talking on the phone, which I despise!

      I truthfully wonder if ANYBODY likes talking on the phone.
    • Posts: 49 Member
      Blind. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't sing or listen to music.
    • Posts: 469 Member
      Mute. I'm not much of a talker anyway.
    • Posts: 2,917 Member
      what a horribly depressing thread :-(
    • Posts: 566
      Mute, I can already go without talking forever!
    • Posts: 304 Member
      Mute. I could not take being robbed of one of my senses. I could still write things to communicate with the world :smile:
    • Posts: 4,251 Member
      what a horribly depressing thread :-(
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      It's life, and many people lead fruitful and happy ones with such issues.

      I'll bet the first blind Miss America contestant isn't depressed.
    • Posts: 9,543 Member
      I would go with being mute. I don't talk a lot anyway.
    • Posts: 1,226 Member
      I'd rather be deaf because i want to have the opportunity to see my children grow up.
    • Posts: 3,750 Member
      mute followed by deaf followed by blind

      i cant imagine being blind.

      id be mute AND deaf rather than be blind.
    • Posts: 1,483 Member
      Mute, I have plenty of mute friends and they can communicate better than I can. Not only that, but their other senses are way better because of their "handicap".
    • Posts: 283 Member
      I think I'd rather be mute than blind or deaf. I would still be able to hear and see the world, and at the same time, actually think before I "speak" - aka write it out. :laugh:
    • Posts: 43
      I would say mute.. I gotta hear things around me and see where Im going. But being a mute I could do that.
    • Posts: 9,487 Member
      Mute - I'm sure they have some app where I can type in what I want to say and it says it for me.
    • Posts: 3,499 Member
      I am legally deaf so I guess I will take that...

      better the devil you know than the devil you don't...

      but there's more to it than just losing a sense. I worry at night that someone will break in and murder me and my daughter in my sleep before I even wake up...

      I'll probably never hear a man say I love you to me.

      It holds me back in my career, i don't care how many people say it doesn't or shouldn't...

      so really...count your blessings and wish for none of these.
    • Posts: 144 Member
      Mute. I could still write, hear, and see all of the beautiful things I see everyday that give my life meaning.
    • Posts: 119
      I am legally deaf so I guess I will take that...

      better the devil you know than the devil you don't...

      but there's more to it than just losing a sense. I worry at night that someone will break in and murder me and my daughter in my sleep before I even wake up...

      I'll probably never hear a man say I love you to me.

      It holds me back in my career, i don't care how many people say it doesn't or shouldn't...

      so really...count your blessings and wish for none of these.

      Thank you for sharing this perspective.... It's easy to talk about, but another thing to live it...
    • Posts: 493
      I would have to say if I had to choose; I would go mute. There are so many different ways of communicating, but losing my eyes would devastate me. I have always had a fear of losing my eyes and my left hand - I draw, paint, craft, write in order to express myself. If I couldn't do that I might as well be in a crazy ward.
    • Posts: 412 Member
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      I truthfully wonder if ANYBODY likes talking on the phone.
      The woman in front of me in the store seems to, at every store
    • Posts: 37
      Mute for sure, because learning would be more complicated when deaf or blind. I love reading and hearing brilliant people speak.
    • Posts: 420 Member
      Hard choice but I would go with mute.....I couldnt live with out hearing my childrens laughter or seeing them smile
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