If you HAD to choose between these 2...

[Mobius]

Would you choose total blindness or total deafness?

[Ladyhawk]

1. As an artist and musician, both seem too painful. :(

But I guess I'd rather lose my hearing. I've lost my sight before, temporarily, and it was hell.

On edit: I can't even click on one. It seems like tempting fate and I don't even believe in that shit. :(

[FDRrocks]

2. Touch can semi-replicate sight....

in that you can visualize what you feel, or even have the benefit of someone describing it to you. That's just my conjecture.

I would promptly jump off a cliff if I suddenly became deaf (makes me wonder why I play my drums without earplugs... and spent all that money on a car stereo system).

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. I'd rather be blind.

If I went blind, I could always learn braille and use text-to-speech for the computer and so on; if I went deaf, I'd never hear music again. THe former seems less bad than the latter.

[Renew Deal]

8. But you would be bumping into shit

and you couldn't tell the difference between a 10 and a 20.

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. So I'd use a cane...

and make all my purchases with plastic. Not as hard as you make it sound.

[Renew Deal]

11. Sounds hard to me

And I don't want to find out.

[Spider Jerusalem]

12. Me either, really.

I hope to keep my eyesight (poor as it is...without corrective lenses it's in "legally blind" territory) and hearing, but then opne can never tell what might happen.

[jdots]

4. already dumb does that count ?

what if you couldn't smell farts ?

[Mobius]

5. I picked blind

because I could never live without music

[Zero Division]

7. Picked blind for the same reason: music

Still a tough choice, though. I love staring at beautiful scenery.

[Robeson]

6. I chose deaf , but its a tough choice....

....I've heard that deafness is psychologically tougher, but that could just be urban legend. Are there any resident psychiatrist/psychologist in the house who could shed some light?

[DemWitch]

9. Definatly deaf

My Dad had surgery back in April and they screwed up big time, fried his optic nerve. Came out of surgery 100% irreversibly blind. The toll on him and the rest of the family you wouldn't believe. Deaf, definatly... without question.

[Mobius]

13. kicking because i am attention seeking

:shrug:

[Kenneth ken]

14. deaf

I could function more close to normal if I was deaf.

I would be far too dependent on others if I was blind, and I couldn't live like that.

Though, on the plus side, if I was blind, I wouldn't be much bothered by my untidy house. :D