8 Month Old Deaf Baby’s Reaction To Cochlear Implant Being Activated

lol, that's funny as hell. kudos.

Actually the NASA budget cuts were leftovers from the Bush Administration. They just came into effect now.

this does not add up as obuma repurposed nasa not to deal with technology or space travel but as an outreach agency for muslims. so you tell me who really cut the budget. nasa creates high paying high tech jobs .

Modern medicine is what blessed that baby. It's an insult to the progress of humanity to think that God let that baby be born deaf and then when humans using advanced hard earned knowledge fix god's mistake to then ask god to bless the child. if your god gave two shits about that baby he would have heard his mother's voice on day one.

I'll I have to say is that I hope his brother is talking behind his back. Everyone else has covered the rest.

I really hope you're joking.

r u serious u should be asshamed of ur self u jacka~~ embarrassing sign seriously ur embarrasing

Hey this is Alex's bro. I was born deaf as a door knob! I hear perfectly now 'cause of the cochlear implant. I play sports, I hear the quarterbacks calls, I hear the crowd, go to concerts, sit in the back of my hs class. I hear everything!!! Embarrassing? I am no more my ignorant friend. Laugh all you want. My life is NORMAL 'cause of my cochlear.

Just to leave it clear im not making fun of no one and I think its a wonderful thing that people that r deaf get to hear and talk and be just like anyone else.BUT I dont think its nice to say that sign language is embarrasing or anything like that.Ok ur lucky u got the cochlear but there r many people out there that cant afford it and have to live like that the rest of there lifes.And just so u know I think sign language is pretty cool and is nothing to be embarrased of.

I hope you are kidding. Sign language is not embarrassing and the Deaf Culture is not a cult! Sign language is a recognized foreign language. It even differs from country to country just like spoken languages. The Death are a proud community. The cochlear implant is a medical miracle, but a very controversial surgery among hearing and Deaf. Children born hearing to deaf parents and vice versa, struggle their whole lives trying to fit in to a culture. As a brother, you should have researched and found out as much as you could to see what your brother is and has gone through. You are incredibly selfish and ignorant.

what a *!ck

Yeah I agree!

this made me cry too! and i'm not pregnant, i'm not even a girl...just a 25 YO guy... i still have tears in my eyes..........

I don't know. My sister and a friend of mine r deaf ; one from birth, the other gradually. They both read lips. One retired from a microscopic tool assembly plant. The other owned her own business. Neither ever learned braille or sign language.

Deaf people do not need to learn Braille, they can see. :)

right my bad. was tired when I wrote , u get the gist tho

FLAGGED!

Now see thats not even artful in any way it's just Vulger. Vulger words from a Vulger mind is that all you are? I must admit I'm a little mental but I'm not Vulger. You see Thats just disrespectful .

LOL, naughty naughty! Wasn't expecting that in my current e-mail. highlight issue, bad form!!!!! ::but funny because I was just picturing the faces of the people on this thread getting that e-mail and I cracked up::

highlight issue, drinking and posting is usually not a good combo. Future reference.

I find it to be very rude of a person to do such things in a forum that Children visit.

The adult in my head found it very rude and totally inappropriate as well. But the adolescent in my head still chuckled about it.

Yeah I still get a good Chuckle out of B(o)(o)BIES when I see them.

Stopped reading the first time you called me stupid. Sorry you wasted your time.

Yeah, given the nature of your reply which Nancy_Sandoval is responding to, I wouldn't doubt you stopped reading, though I suspect it has less to do with your taking offense to Nancy's choice of words and expression and more to do with a nail being hit right on the head.

By the way, commenting anything to the effect of, "Glory to G-d? G-d didn't invent the technology . . . people did. G-d made him deaf. Maybe he was meant to be that way?" seems kind of callous and cold hearted. Probably because it is. Perhaps another way to look at this is, God made the child deaf so that we would feel the need to conquer the child's disability through technology thus improving the child's life and furthering our studies in the sciences. But then again, that would have required some creative thinking to a very mild extent, and I stress very mild because I have family members who are extremely religious and none too bright who would have made this kind of argument because all it requires is some optimistic thinking rather than looking for a conflict.

Two more things before my rant is done.

First, why the hell are you omitting the "o" out of the word "God?" Blasphemy means taking the lords name in vain, not using it as a proper noun to identify God. Uses that would not be Blasphemy would include, "There God is, Glory to God, God didn't... God made, God is," etc.

According to Uncyclopedia, "What constitutes blasphemy include:
Saying mean things about God or Jesus.
Saying God or Jesus next to a derogatory word. Examples include "god damn it", "Jesus fucking Christ", or "Fuck Rush Limbaugh"
Pointing out to religious people the flaws in their logic.
Reading the Skeptic's Annotated Bible
Reading the Skeptic's Annotated Quran
Reading the Skeptic's Annotated Book of Mormon
Actually being a skeptic of religion
Not worshipping The One True God every week, even if you don't know which god that is or which sectarian faith represents that deity as that is your problem and not the Lord's or Jesus's problem.
Saying God's name too loud.
Sneezing in Church.
Wearing boots.
Thinking about members of the opposite sex.
Thinking about members of your own sex.
Thinking."

Second, given your track record for not finishing things that you are offended by (which is odd considering you said something pretty damn offensive without without either considering or caring that it might be offensive) I don't really expect you to read entirely through this or I expect you might skip to the end. In either case the point of what I have written isn't really to make you look or feel stupid. Trust me, you made yourself look stupid and how you feel right now is probably how being stupid feels. So no matter what I wrote, it wouldn't accomplish anything new on that front. The point is to have fun at your expense. We are indeed laughing, and we're not laughing with you. You can try to figure out what that means on your own.

If you're not reading comments and receiving notifications any more why are you still commenting?

Just curious about one other thing. If you argue that God made him deaf and there should be no glory to God because he was gifted with the ability to hear, then should we say Glory to science? Would you prefer that? Or would you prefer that glory go to God because he gave the scientist the ability and knowledge to create the technology? I'm confused. Please clarify.

God gave him the defective ears. Science is the only miracle worker here.

Glory to G-d? G-d didn't invent the technology . . . people did. G-d made him deaf. Maybe he was meant to be that way?

Jesus fucking christ. First of all, how can you look at that video and have any kind of malice about you? I hate people and that shit warmed my heart. Secondly, state your piece in one concise statement and move the fuck on. My phone is literally blowing up right now and I have better things to do than check it every two minutes thinking "Oh, someone important might be emailing me" only to see that it's yet another jackass comment from you. If you don't believe deaf people should have a cochlear implant, fine, awesome, good for you. If you don't, then leave a comment about it. But for fuck's sake, get the sand out of your vagina and shut the fuck up. Obviously, no one else gives two shits about your opinion.

Wow . . . someone's a little hostile, aren't they?

I have no malice about me and haven't said anything malicious.
If you hate people, maybe you shouldn't be on interactive websites.
I have stated my piece elsewhere on this page. I'm sure I used some big words you don't understand. If it wasn't concise enough for you, . . . oh well. I'm not here to please you or live down to your standards.
Given your attitude and hatred for people, I doubt you know anyone important.
If YOU don't care about my opinion, don't read my posts. People are here because they DO want to exchange opinions.
Get your head out of your ass and go to a board filled with the hatred you exude.

whyever you are so insaine about this we will never know. you can't even spell out God and yet you want to bash on people for helping their child. if GOD didn't want little johnathan to hear he would have made a defect in that piece. get lost & let GOD deal with things His way && you don't be the judgeof him or this family.

I CAN spell out G-d (you, however, can't spell insane), but Jewish people don't. I'm going to assume you don't care why, given your attitude. If you do, by some miracle, care why, look it up.

I didn't bash on anyone nor did I judge them. I simply said I didn't agree with what they did.

I'm not exactly which words you have assumed were "big", but I assure you that my vocabulary far exceeds the average bear's. It's usually a job requirement for writers. As far as my hatred towards people is concerned (mind you, because I don't want to be mislabeled as some sort of bigot, allow me to make the case that I'm not a fan of the human race in its present condition of acute consumerism, oversensitivity, and extreme idiocy, inasmuch as you've so demonstrated), your bristling at the notion that someone could get joy from seeing a small child hear for the first time, and then your abject need to troll for arguments (which is precisely what I believe you're doing) is exactly what I would argue is the heart of the fault found in the human condition. Such a strong desire to be heard and make such a fuss seems so childish and selfish to me, especially after reading your reply to me, almost goading me into an argument. You, child, are laughable, as is your case that you attempted to make. You made it so with your incessant need to argue everyone's comments. Had it been a single statement, it might have had poignancy and you would not have jumped up on my radar as one that needed to be told a firm "shut the fuck up". But you posted several negative comments, and continued to do so, on and on. That's why your argument holds absolutely no water; you appear as one grasping at the air, a sort of "poor, poor me" sob-story. So play your comment game (I simply labeled everything that you post as spam, so it does alert me by phone anymore) and continue to believe that others are out to get you, at the same time believing that you have no faults to be found. Might I suggest that you, my dear, remove your head from your own ass.

And normal is . . . ? Deaf people aren't normal? I think my deaf, friends who are married, have children, own homes and cars and have jobs and families and take vacations, watch tv, talk on the phone, make love, have arguments, cook meals, go on Facebook, play video games and do everything else you do might disagree.

I'm neither snobby nor cliquey and you shouldn't make personality judgements on people you've never met. Also, I don't see a reference to any snobby or cliquey group in your original post. I see a reference to people who are "super against anything that helps you to be normal" and "advocates for embracing everything possible to blend in". I have no idea which group I'm in according to your "standards" because you have yet to define what is "normal". I DO see that you're a person who needs to put others down in order to feel (or make others think you are) superior. Won't work with me.

hi. i would like to say that i agree with you, and that person fighting you is a retard! and your cool :)

The cochlea (singular) is not a cell; rather, it is the structure that houses both inner and outer hair cells.