I know a lot of people ask themselves this question. My answer is I'd rather be mute or I'd rather just not live.

I find a lot of beauty in the world, and there have been times where I've been in complete darkness and staring into what seems like forever is just not a good feeling, though I think it's one of the better options on the poll...I definitely never want to go blind, but if I was born blind I don't think it would be as bad, because I would only yearn to see what I am incapable of understanding, rather than yearning for what I once had, that surely would be frustrating.

Deaf...I want to cry just thinking about going deaf. Not being able to hear your own voice when you speak, that is if you weren't born deaf...Just the sound of the fan going or typing on a keyboard. The feeling I would get if I suddenly went deaf, and the entire world just went silent, like someone putting a bag over your head but you could still see, it would drive me literally insane.

As someone said earlier, feeling is very important. You can never feel when you're hungry, or when you have to use the bathroom. If you're hurt, it'd be hard to know. You wouldn't feel the wind or the sun against you. So, you'd feel no pain. It'd go much further than that. You would have to live your entire life differently just because of not being able to feel. And it's right next to being deaf for me.

Since when is "no emotions" a disability? Or a possibility, for that matter? I do believe a person would have to be comatose for this to even be plausible. Wtf, why is this even on the poll? 😕

Back to being mute. I would find it frustrating, difficult and sad, but it's the one off the poll I could learn to live with.

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Since when is "no emotions" a disability? Or a possibility, for that matter? I do believe a person would have to be comatose for this to even be plausible. Wtf, why is this even on the poll? 😕

Forgive me if this doesn't make sense as I just woke up and am in a hurry.
It is possible to not feel anything emotionally. Two ways that I know of, but there are probably more. One is being on medications for depression, which keep a person from experiencing any up or downs, they remain monotone so as to deal with day to day life. Another is becoming so overwhelmed emotionally, that this part of the brain shuts down, until the person is able to function normally again. It's a self-defense mechanism.

As I've stated, this is the one I would pick.

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Since when is "no emotions" a disability? Or a possibility, for that matter? I do believe a person would have to be comatose for this to even be plausible. Wtf, why is this even on the poll? 😕

Forgive me if this doesn't make sense as I just woke up and am in a hurry.
It is possible to not feel anything emotionally. Two ways that I know of, but there are probably more. One is being on medications for depression, which keep a person from experiencing any up or downs, they remain monotone so as to deal with day to day life. Another is becoming so overwhelmed emotionally, that this part of the brain shuts down, until the person is able to function normally again. It's a self-defense mechanism.

As I've stated, this is the one I would pick.

o.O Regardless of how a person may temporarily be emotionless, it is not a disability nor do I see why it was in the poll in the first place. Especially not indifference caused by medication. It's going to be hard for someone to convince me that anyone, anywhere can be completely without emotion unless they are in a vegetable-like state, and impossible to convince me that it can be considered a disability. Even when people sleep their emotions are there, probably the same when they are in a coma, a person would have to be brain dead to have absolutely no emotion towards anything at all.

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I choose deaf. One of my classmates is def, the guy's more popular and has a better personality than me. After the first week I don't think any one, including me, ever thought of of him as disabled at all. I do sometimes forget he can't hear and have to repeat what I said when I've gotten his attention. He can read lips and everyone in class is picking up some sign language, plus we text each other or write things, or ask the interpreter sometimes too. I don't see how being def has effected his standard of living or his ambitions in life. Although I wish he'd stop smoking, now that's a more serious problem.

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