Coming from somebody in the half-deaf community, please, medical science, find a cure for the problem that I have that needs to be fixed.

Thank you for saying this so energetically and straightforwardly. To the greatest extent possible, we should endeavour to call things what they are.

At the risk of turning this positive thread negative, there exist deaf people who would deny their children the opportunity to hear, and very little makes me more furious than society's willingness to tolerate this form of child abuse.