#Hearing Aids

[critterbitter]

Sometimes, it's lonelier when you're in a crowd you can't understand. Elesa, who struggles with the language divide and being hard of hearing, solves this by simply refusing to engage.

BONUS! The twins did not get their starters yet. They think Elesa’s so cool and stoic. This is a hilarious misunderstanding.

Want something funnier? Here's my submas masterpost!

[crybaby-writings]

if you want to learn sign language of any kind your one and only reason for it should be proper person to person communication. not because it's "so beautiful", not so you can talk shit and nothing else, not so you can say swear words without other people knowing.

if you're learning sign language your one and only reason should be to communicate with people who use sign language. learning sign language means learning about an entire complicated, extremely important culture and the people who are a part of that culture.

you can not learn sign language without learning about d/Deaf culture in depth. it also means learning to stay in your lane on d/Deaf issues. learning sign language and learning about d/Deaf culture does not mean you get to speak on d/Deaf issues, and a lot of hearing people don't realize that.

this has been a notice from a d/Deaf person

[cripplecharacters]

Hi, my character uses hearing aids and I would like to know if they can wear hearphones when they happen to wearing their hearing aids at the same time.

Hi!

I'd say, don't do this. It's best to take off hearing aids when using headphones. Also, many modern hearing aids have bluetooth connection, so they may not even need headphones--they can just send the sound directly to their hearing aids!

Mod Rock

[ramshackledtrickster]

Fundraiser boost for @ayeshjourney ‘a campaign for Yasser and the Ayesh Family

Mohammed Ayesh is one of the on the ground vetters currently in Gaza, helping hundreds of families spread their campaigns online and for their voices to be heard. His work is so invaluable, so please try to return some of the help through this. It’s the least anyone could do to thank him for the work he does.

Yasser Ayesh is Mohammed’s little brother, who is hard of hearing and requires a cochlear implant. Due to the ongoing blockade and destruction by the IOF, Yasser has no safe place to charge or repair his hearing aid. This means he goes several days without being able to hear or communicate, as him and his family try to survive.

All donation proceeds will go to repairing Yasser’s hearing aid, and to help the Ayesh family escape and eventually rebuild their lives as soon as possible. Additionally, it will help cover future expenses for Yasser’s speech therapy. Please, share and donate if you are able to, this is so extremely important.

And remember your daily click.

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[thedeafzoologist]

How hearing aids work

This is intended as a writing guide, but anyone is welcome to read it to learn more about the different aids used by deaf people.

Please remember that these are based off my experience as somebody who was born deaf in the uk. Other deaf people will have vastly different experiences, and I would encourage you to look up other guides like this

Hearing aids are not always available, particularly if you live in a country without free healthcare. They can be very expensive, both to buy and to take care of

If your character is a deaf child or young teenager, they will need new hearing aid moulds every so often as their ears grow. This only involves going to the hospital for a few hours, and isn't really a big deal. You can get different colours of mould, sometimes sparkly ones, or with tiny embedded designs

Hearing aids cannot get wet, so we take them off to shower, swim, etc. We also take them off to sleep

Hearing aids do not fix hearing loss, and many deaf people still need to lipread and use sign language while wearing them. Please don't try to compare them to glasses!

Some people choose not to wear hearing aids at all, which is a perfectly reasonable and valid decision. Sometimes it is too overwhelming to be exposed to so much noise, sometimes people just prefer to sign or use other non-verbal communication

Not all people with hearing aids know or use sign language

If your character is wearing hearing aids for the first time, they will probably become a lot clumsier while they get used to it

That's all I can think of for now! To any hearing writers reading this, I'm glad you're making an effort to write diverse characters thoughtfully and respectfully!

[bodhrancomedy]

A little update and explanation (even if I’m late since I was dealing with a personal matter) on Mr Beast’s Deaf video and why it severely pissed off a lot of D/deaf folks. Including me.

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

You know what, fuck you, I'm not listening to your bullshit anymore *takes out my hearing aids*

[immadatdisney2]

Yet ANOTHER silly (which for me, means angsty) headcannon

What if, after years of explosions and loud sounds from the fireworks, Yong actually goes deaf?

And yes, I know Varian was around a ton of explosions with his science and everything but the entire point of fireworks is that they explode one way or another and since he'd be a stupid little kid when he started making them he probably wouldn't take proper safety measures, so he would slowly lose his hearing.

And let's say he didn't really notice it, for him barely being able to hear (I wanna say he's completely deaf in one ear and mostly deaf in the other) is just normal for him and while he finds it weird how Yong asks him to repeat everything or speak louder, Varian would just assume its him trying to understand it better but Hugo, that would be a different story.

Hugo gets just a tiny bit sick of having to yell for the kid to hear him, but his annoyance turns to concern when one day Yong almost gets run over when the Caravan's breaks malfunctioned and Hugo had to shove him out of the way since Yong didn't move when he screamed for him to move (Varian and Nuru were out buying food or something in this senerio) so he finally starts to actually ask proper questions and Yong just says "Yeah, I can't hear most of the time" or something like it's completely normal?!

So, after hearing all this. Hugo not only teaches Yong (and later the rest of the gang) Ingvarian sign language (since he used it with Olivia sometimes) but made Yong either hearing aids or later on cochlear implants and Yong is just completely flabbergasted at how things normally sound like for people and might get overwhelmed with the sounds so they have to help him get used to it and this could actually help him make fireworks better since he could recalibrate the explosions or something? (Idk how fireworks work) and it would just be reaaaaaaaly cute<3.

Im on FIRE with thease headcannons! Anyway, feel free to use this in a fic or fanart (tag me so I can see it) and yeah, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk folks!

-ImMadAtDisney <3

[jenthebug]

Got new hearing aids!

Things I’ve observed:

Clothing makes noise

My turn signals make noise

Music is REALLY GOOD, like, there’s a lot more to it than I remember

My coworkers sometimes say important things very quietly

Having Bluetooth hearing aids that go through my phone for all calls and sounds is fucking LIT

Husband crunching food makes noise from all the way across the room

Soba does “mrrp?” more than I thought

[theprongspotter]

Me: “Unfortunately, my hearing is declining quicker than we thought it would :(“

Them: “And??? You’re losing it either way.”

STFUUUUU

It’s MY hearing dude

Yes, I’m losing it either way, and yes I have hearing aids, but now I’m losing it quicker

My hearing is deteriorating more rapidly

What are you not understanding?

It’ll be gone at an age younger to what we thought

Why the fuck are you basically telling me that I should be okay with that

[microsofttothemax]

one of my fav hcs for leo

[skys-archive]

I'm working on a masterlist of picrews with disability aids, let me know if you want to be tagged! Right now I'm doing some for hearing aids/cochlear, wheelchairs, canes, and crutches. If you have more aids you want to see, let me know that too!

EDIT: so far I'm also adding breathing tubes, feeding tubes, and prosthetics!

[wolfsteax]

my Sims game gave Jake hearing aids when he was born so I decided to just make it canon

[cripplecharacters]

Hi hi! My character is a party goer who user a hearing aid, but they don't exactly need or are deaf, their hearing is generally just worse because they're around loud sounds A LOT so normally they tend to use it because it's better and more comfortable for them, is that okay?

Also, what would be some problems that someone who has very worse hearing/uses hearing aid may face normally?

Hi!

Using hearing aids if you don't need them is dangerous; it can harm your hearing and it is very likely to be overstimulating (it's overstimulating even for people who do need them).

But it sounds like your character does need them--they're hard of hearing! Long-term exposure to loud sounds can lead to conductive hearing loss (damage to eardrum or middle ear structures), or high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss (damage to the hairs inside the cochlea).

There's an odd conception that people with hearing aids are 100% deaf without them (and then can hear just fine with them in), but the truth is the vast majority of deaf people and hearing aid users can hear something without aid, and people with severe/profound hearing loss are often not significantly benefitted by hearing assistive devices.

To learn more about what struggles this character might face, please read over our "#deaf character", "#hearing aids", and "#hearing aid representation" tags. [Note: #deaf character includes all asks about d/Deaf/hoh characters.] If you have more specific questions about your character, feel free to drop another ask in the ask box!

Mod Rock

[rickypersnickety]

literally begging yall this disability pride month to remember the phys. disabled deaf people. draw them with transcription computers, draw them wearing colorful CIs and HAs, draw them using FM systems, i've never seen anyone draw them and i'd love to see representation of that. i cannot count the number of times i've been excited to see disability art only to see them all using mobility aids and feel disappointed afterwards because fuck knows when the last time you saw your disability aids.

this disability pride month include Deaf/HOH people that don't solely use sign language, who wear colorful disability aids, who use things that only their own community seems to know about

(if anyone has art of those things i mentioned i wanted seen tag me pleaseeeee)

[inazumaeleven-headcanon-space]

I tried to re design him a bit. I think it looks preety cool.

I don't belive his cape would stay perfectly like that impossible.

Also, hearing aid :3