Argumentative Essay On Being Born Blind

Being born blind means you are unable to see anything, and since being brought into the world, you have no real concept of what anything looks like. Being born deaf means that you have never been able and will never be able to understand or comprehend any form of verbal communication (excluding reading a person's lips), which some believe can set you up poorly later in life. The debate on whether being born deaf or blind is more serious than the other, can be discussed and argued for a long time.
According to Oliver Sacks (1989), “to be born deaf is infinitely more serious than to be born blind” (p. 7). Sacks’ reasoning for stating this, is simple and explained in his book, Seeing Voices. Oliver talks about a South African poet and novelist, named David Wright. Wright was born with the ability to hear, but became deaf around the age of seven. David Wright speaks of illusionary hearing, where he feels that he can still hear his mother’s voice while she mouths words to him, even though he is deaf. Because he was born with the ability to hear, his communication skills did not suffer completely. This relates to Sacks’ reasoning, because he says that “for the prelingually deaf, unable to hear their parents” (p. 7), they are at more risk for being “severely retarded, if not permanently defective” (p. 8). He feels that this causes a loss of many
If you are born blind, you still have the ability to communicate and understand communication more so than if you were born deaf. This does not mean that it is better to be born blind, or that I am saying it is easier to be born blind. Communication is an integral part of life, because it is all around the world, and people who are born deaf are at a major disadvantage from day one when it comes to comprehending proper communication. At the very least, in the young stages of life, I find that being born deaf is potentially more