Choose your pain.

^ Cop out.

I'd be deaf either way. Not to debunk Helen Keller, but there's no such thing as profound deafness unless your ears are just completely gone. For example, like Mush was mentioning about one wouldn't hear a truck coming. That is true, but you must also keep in mind in something similar to a railroad tracks. You can definitely feel the train coming, and to a deaf person, he/she could feel the rumble if close enough... :\ I'm sure its too fast to be able to tell where its coming from. But you get my point.

That rumble feeling is similar to a sound effect of silence in a way. Born deaf btw, and having no sense of sound doesn't really affect me as much like Helen was saying, losing touch to people? At least you can see your own children to love and hug and take care of them.

Jam it back in, in the dark.