#Deaf Problems

[aww-canon-no]

Today I...

Meticulously cleaned my ear molds because I decided to wear my hearing aids today.  Took 30 full minutes.

Promptly forgot them at home on the bathroom counter.  Chances are they will die and I will have to recharge them AGAIN before I’m in the mood to wear them again.

Met a random Deaf stranger in a bookshop.  Talked for 45 mins.  Exchanged life story and childhood trauma while friends waited on me.

Proceed to get very annoyed at my hearing friend for talking to the barista for longer than 2 mins and asked her why all hearing people have to talk to each other so much.

I think I’m going to have to project all of these things on Clint or Steve Harrington in fic soon.

[pomeraniandancer]

How the fuck does this even happen...

There are a number of languages you can search for works in on AO3, including Eald Eanglisc of all things, but the one language on there that really throws me for a loop is...American Sign Language.

Like, is there even a video option on AO3 for this to be possible?

I once picked a really big fanfic collection to search for ASL fics in and the only one that categorized as ASL was *written* in English. No videofile too be seen.

The most you can do in ASL in writing is write English words with ASL syntax. But that's still not ASL. ASL does not have a written alphabet or syllabary.

Genuinely bewildered about how this came about. Can people just post something and write in an "other" language and AO3 just adds that language to the list of languages they have fics written in?

I can't think of any other way that this might've happened, and as much as I adore AO3, this is pretty problematic.

[kitcheninaman]

got to talk to my (hearing) irls about being deaf the other day. notable moments are:

friend 1 thinking it was offensive to call me deaf and when she saw me say something in sign (of the limited i know) she goes "OH!! because you're,,, uh,, you . can't hear?"

me mentioning my dislike of certain sounds (because im autistic) and friend 2 being confused because i obviously can't hear sounds as well as them

us talking about how shit my area is for deaf resources and just getting to Complain without them being weird about it

[odyssej]

Even so far as decided not to come home, only to find it's still so hostile outside… and still without an apology.

[abrahamshipwreck]

Seriously EVERYTHING about Dragula appeals to me but it is so inaccessible to me it makes me so pants shittingly enraged. A lot of reality tv has shitty captions (and Im mad about that too dont get me wrong) but I definitely feel like the Eric Andre outside the DNC with this one

[tuttle-did-it]

I put in a complaint to BT Internet because they didn’t have enough contact options for Deaf people.

I moved flats and had to have my friends call them to arrange the move because they didn’t have an online portal, email service or a chat box to deal with this.

BT is one of the biggest companies in the UK and it’s 2023. You’d think they would have better options for disabled customers.

In tears laughing when they sent this after their ‘investigation’ into my complaint. They not only didn’t bother to respond, but this was their resolution to my complaint about not being able to contact them in another way that didn’t involve a telephone:

[dazzlingdeaf]

This may be a strange question, but if you receive a sign name that you don’t like or find offensive how do you go about telling the person who gave it to you? I don’t know if this ever happens, but I feel like surely there are some sign names that a person just wouldn’t like. Similar to how some people hate their real names and prefer a nickname? Sorry if this is a dumb question

I guess it sort of depends on why you don’t like the name sign? And the relationship you have with her person giving you said sign name. I would communicate that to whoever gave you your name sign if you feel comfortable. But keep in mind it may be referencing something you may not know about. You can ask why that person chose that for your sign name and they will likely explain why. And if it has an element that makes you feel uncomfortable, you can choose to let them know as well.

But sort of like other gifts that people can revive, you won’t like every gift. I’ve had sign names I didn’t like, hell I’m not a huge fan of my current one. But I consider it more of a “transitional” sign name until I come across one that I feel “fits”.

[e-de-emperatriz]

@deafcultureis

[kitcheninaman]

another thing i could talk about for ages is my deaf identity and the disconnect i feel from deaf culture because of how i was raised.

because i was raised like i could function like how hearing people do, and was expected to not struggle (despite the fact i did), i never got to discover deaf culture, learn sign, figure myself and my identity out. i became incredibly insecure about my deafness- am i deaf enough, is my deafness valid?

now obviously the answer to both of those is Yes, Of Course. but often i still get so incredibly insecure about my identity as a deaf person. i KNOW i am HoH, that deaf culture is as much mine as it is any other deaf person, but i feel so removed from it. like even if i did try get more involved, id be told i wasnt deaf enough to be deaf. which is stupid but what if?

what if.

all because my hearing mother decided i wasn't deaf enough, in her opinion, to warrant caring about it more than yelling at me when i don't hear her or ferrying me from audiologist appointment to audiologist appointment.

it also doesn't help that I grew up in an area where deaf culture and awareness doesn't exist at all. my secondary school never acknowledged my deafness more than the occasional "do you want to sit at the front". even then, i was never moved to the front.

and all of this added up in my head until little deaf me thought he had the answer: im not good enough, he thinks, i might be deaf but im not deaf. im basically just hearing with extra steps.

and it's only recently ive been trying to deconstruct this idea in my head. reclaim my deafness as my own, learn sign, finally become aware of the culture that should've been mine from the very start.

and though i become more and more confident in it by the day. there's still a nagging thought in the back of my mind

what if im not deaf enough

[odyssej]

Made the chefs and the lead barista bust a gut from laughing - Chef Lila's been on holiday back home and now she's being interviewed on a Nepalese vlog, still wearing her parka of her favourite colour - sea green. Obviously she looked a million times less hassled, in a place so lush and green with a sprinkle of sunlight that I said, "She looks right at home."

They thought I'd said she's a right asshole.

[jupitervega]

if you make long assed video essays & don't caption them u automatically get a d minus & we continue gradin from there

caption yr large audience content or stop tryin to produce large audience content!!!!!

[15krixa15]

I love it people who make deaf content make me feel so loved

🗣️ huh?? what do you mean I haven’t posted any Link signing propaganda yet??

[neverthelass]

The lesson I’m getting from this video is: don’t talk to someone with a sign language interpreter while they’re trying to do something

[waspgrave]

saw someone on twitter telling people that they don't care about victims when it comes to fictional fandom stuff they enjoy and i gotta be real with you guys.... As an Honorary Victim who also got caught up in that level of discourse once upon a time, I could not care less about what people make barbies do in their spare time. And it is amazing what it does for the mental health. Like I don't care at all. It doesn't matter to me. I'm in my 20s with so many other problems in life to care about. I'm already exhausted. It might be common decency to make an effort, but it's actually not someone else's job to care about my personal woes and triggers and it's not my job to interview them on theirs. I can just block them or the tag if it gets bad enough to actually bother me.

Please try to unshackle your mind and actually be helpful and offer help people in the real world instead of telling ppl online to kill themselves bc of... fiction??? You clearly have passion, time, and energy but don't use it to do anything actually helpful beyond making sure your followers know you have what should be obvious irl morally correct opinions about things that aren't real on the website you're able to freely and easily block people and topics on? Even after living that life for a time, it is simply Bizarre to me now.

[pomeraniandancer]

As a deafie, I often mishear "what in tarnation" as "what in carnation," and it takes me a moment to figure out what was actually said.

Just another example of invisible labor as a disabled person...

so weird how in english some words are really just used in expressions and not otherwise… like has anyone said “havoc” when not using it in the phrase “wreaking havoc”? same goes for “wreaking” actually…

reply with more, i’m fascinated

[mindless-existence1]

I love the headcannon that Bakugo is deaf because it is so amazing. But I love it so much more when I think about him just taking out his hearing aids whenever he's pissed off with someone. Denki is being dumb? Now I can't even try to understand you, too bad so sad. Midoriya is pissing him off? Ha try talking to someone who can't hear you.