# If we could cure blindness/deafness, how many would reject it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 5, 2013, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-could-cure-blindness-deafness-how-many-would-reject-it/668098 "2013-09-05T18:14:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-could-cure-blindness-deafness-how-many-would-reject-it/668098/21 "2013-09-09T03:49:06Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > Deafness is different, although the availability of cochlear implants has considerably eroded deaf culture, and large numbers of deaf people have chosen to take advantage of them. Which if accurate is probably an answer to the OP. If many deaf people have chosen to take advantage of a fairly imperfect aid to hearing, then if there was a complete cure you’d have to think the same or more deaf people would take that cure. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-could-cure-blindness-deafness-how-many-would-reject-it/668098/22 "2013-09-09T17:44:26Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > When discussing blind people having their sight restored, it’s important to note that only 2% of blind people have been blind since birth and would experience the problems Dr. Sacks describes. Do we know that someone who had sight and then lost it for a long time would not experience the same problems with the brain’s judgment of images? I’d be interested in seeing research on the issue. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-could-cure-blindness-deafness-how-many-would-reject-it/668098.md?page=1)