Would you rather be blind or deaf?

This is an interesting topic for a film, an interesting anecdote from the teenager and a few nice-looking shots, but I couldn't really find a narrative structure there that grabbed me. I don't feel like I really learned anything, and perhaps I'm over-sensitive but I think if you're going to ask that question you really have to do it justice.

As a partially deaf person myself currently facing the possibility that I could lose the rest of my hearing, I've obviously asked myself the question, though it's not like I have a choice. Lack of vision would make you incredibly vulnerable and would change your social experiences radically; plus, as a writer I'd lose the visual element of that incredibly important part of my life (both the ability to read and record my work visually). But when I think about what moves and elates and affects and touches me most, it's sound. I'd pick an orchestra over a sunset any day. So if I really had to choose, and biased as I am to *really* valuing my hearing, if it came down to it I'd select blindness over deafness.

everyone I ever asked chooses deafness...even as someone who is legally blind, I would choose deafness

Hey cool, you should definitely make that doc. Send me a link when you publish it. I'm hoping to eventually do something more noteworthy in documenting disabilities and how they are perceived.

Of course, I don't wish it upon anyone to have to "choose," but I do hope anyone reading the question might at least stop and say....I wonder.

I myself have a fear of blindness.

I'm a visual journalist, and for a long while now, I've been wanting to do a documentary to learn more about the lifestyle of visually impaired people. I recently met a blind couple who has granted me the privilege to document their lives.

In no way shape or form would I wish to ever choose between deafness and blindness. But to answer your question, as a visual person, I would choose deafness.

Interesting style.

Yes, it is a serious question and I am taking a fairly light approach to it, so I appreciate your honest reply.

I currently work part-time with deaf students at a private school (teaching theatre), and out of interest took sign language as my "foreign language" in undergrad about five years ago. I always figured it would be beneficial to learn a language from a group of people that essentially, can't learn mine. But working with the kids, (and I'm treading on ice here) I realize that it's not as much as a disability as I thought....(did I say that right?) I think the inability to communicate with them was my greatest fear, but since most of the kids are above average lip readers, I sometimes forget they are even deaf.

Anyway, just a little of where I'm coming from...

On blindness, I absolutely fear it. Honestly. I haven't had many encounters with the blind, but I once drove for a man (an actor I was driving to set) and he was way more functional than I had given him credit for. He was able to tell me where a gas station was on the way there. I felt ignorant.

This is definitely a subject I would love to dive into deeper, with a much more in-depth film.

So, to answer the question, I would...I think...I'd rather be deaf (if I had to chose...of course, this is pod is lightly posing a hypothetical question meant to stir the brain a little). My husband, a composer, would of course chose the other. I asked him in the beginning of the clip, but he wouldn't answer on camera...hence the shot of my cat.

i find nobody asks serious questions but yours is so i'll answer it with a serious reply.
I had a friend that was deaf, she told me many times that she did'nt like being deaf because she never had the chance to hear the lovely sounds that everyone takes for granted.
But in other ways it it just as bad if you're blind because you would'nt be able to see the lovely things around you.
My personal opinion is that i would rather be deaf but i don't see a point of choosing as they are just s bad as each other but if i had to choose, i would be deaf.

I would like it if you would comment on some of my questions that are similar to yours.