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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

You show that you are dominated by sight even as you say you aren't.

Losing your hearing or touch would remove peripheral senses, yes, and certainly that would be unnerving, but think how much worse it would be to lose sight. Hearing wasn't even a factor for you beyond your peripheral, because what you can see is so much clearer, so much more comprehensive, than what you can hear, that hearing is negligible where you have sight.

Hearing is a backup sense. Something you lean on when you don't have sight, but its fidelity is poor enough in people that we rely nearly wholly on sight, when we can.

Losing that cone of vision impacts us far more than our hearing, although of course losing either is massively detrimental.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I have heard that the incidence of suicide is higher in deaf people then in blind people, which would suggest that, while our senses are sight dominated, losing our hearing has a bigger impact in some way. That said I can't find a citation for that, so make of it what you will.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is the best I could find on the specific topic: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7888369/

People with visual or hearing sensory impairments had twice the odds of past-year suicidal ideation (OR 2.06; 95% CI 1.17 to 2.73; p<0.001), and over three times the odds of reporting past-year suicide attempt (OR 3.12; 95% CI 1.57 to 6.20; p=0.001) compared with people without these impairments. Similar results were found for hearing and visual impairments separately and co-occurring.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Guess I was misinformed. Thanks for doing the legwork.

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