Deaf. If I was blind I couldn't ride my bike or go shooting anymore.

I hate these, because I feel if I pick one, I'll probably end up losing the other due to kharma, luck, whatever you want to call it.

But I would rather lose hearing, I'm a very visual person. But I like having full use of both, and hope I can keep it that way for quite some time.

I thought deaf people arn't aloud to drive?

Deaf, DEAFinately!
sorry folks...

Well, I drive when I have my hearing aid in, but I pretty much ignore my passengers at times because I need my eyes COMPLETELY on the road to make up for what I don't catch in hearing. If you can hear a police/fire/ambulance siren early enough to move the hell out of the way, you should be ok.

Losing your sight means losing a lot of freedom. You can still function fine if you're deaf you just wouldn't be able to communicate as easily anymore. Be blind would require an entirely new lifestyle. The technology for hearing loss is a lot further ahead than optical technology.

Well I guess being deaf for me wouldn't be much different I got a 600 Watt stero system in my van and I can't hear any emergency vehicles. I just watch the traffic in front of me, if they pull over I look in my mirrors and pull over. And the subs help me not hear the loudness of the small block and the shitty low vents I got, they get really noisy on the highway!

Deaf. As long as I could read and write it would be bearable. Plus my girlfriend's doing deaf studies at university. I could be a test subject or something.

it would be too scary to be blind man so I chose deaf even though it would be awfull with no music :(

I've gotta go with the masses on this one. As much as I am a music lover and would miss hearing certain voices... I am too much of a visual person to lose my sight.

In Australia you can. The Roads and Traffic Authority provide a number of services for deaf customers including tele-typewriters, induction loops for hearing aids and deaf sign interprators if required.

Blind. It's a tough choice, but I'd rather hear music and the ocean than see the corrupted world. Plus I perhaps would gain more intuitive knowledge and serenity.

Damn thats sweet!

So you wouldn't want to see your own childern grow up and get married?

Music is extremely important to me and it would be a huge loss, but I could still function almost normally being deaf.

If I was blind, I couldn't drive or read regular books or work effectively on a computer, which would strike to my livelihood.

As much as it would be a far greater handicap to be blind, I can honestly say that I've seen very few things that brought forth enough emotion to make me cry. But I have heard many, many things that have caused that level of emotion. So I believe that I would live a more limited life full of more peak experiences if I were blind.

Other people's noise is probably high on my list of things that drive me the craziest, but I aslo can't stand silence, even if it's just a white noise around me, I would go more insane than I already can be. To not hear the first birds of spring, or to hear the ocean... the sense of hearing would be tough to give up.

Then again, to never see another sunset, a lightning storm, sunrise, watching the waves hit the shore, watching a fire in the fireplace, the colors the leaves turn in fall, a snowfall, couldn't give up that either.

Tough decision... Guess I'd go with giving up hearing, and find something else to keep me sane

Deaf, for sure. Since I can already speak, if I learned to read lips, I would be as functional as I am today. I think deaf people are more likely to survive than blind ones.

both would certainly suck, but i would rather be blind than deaf. there are too many sounds in the world that i would miss. i think that it would be easier to figure out what something looks like through their noises than it would be it figure out what they sound like through their sight.

Deaf incapacitates you much much less in daily life than blindness.

I have mild loss too and I wear two ITE's. Do you wear hearing aids?

I was a professional musician for 11 years and love music but still think I would rather be deaf than blind. I really think being blind would be much more limiting - although I'd sure hate not being able to hear music. Still, it didn't stop Beethoven producing some of his greatest work - genius.