#actuallyAPD

[wheelie-sick]

auditory processing disorder does not make you hard of hearing. it just doesn't! they are just simply different experiences. this doesn't mean auditory processing disorder is lesser it's just different and it's just not hard of hearing.

-someone who is/has both

[happywastedyears]

hi just so you know if you have a personality disorder I love you personally

[olipuppy]

a short horror story for those who are hard of hearing:

english (auto-generated)

[starrynightsdelight]

Day 272884885 of “can everyone else hear that ringing, or is it my ever constant tinnitus?”

[bearmoods]

Hey adhd and apd friends ummm anyone know where I can get some sound isolating headphones for school that DONT have active noise cancellation??? They hurt my ears :^( i need something w a microphone and good sound bcuz i also want them to play videogames with my girlfriend and friends

[apathybaby]

my favorite part of auditory processing disorder is not understanding what someone says to me and saying “what?” but then realizing what they said and answering but confusing both of us at the same time

[blackheartsofchrome]

I also watch everything with English subtitles, because I also have APD, and because English isn't my first language, so I miss 70% of what they say without subs.

(Fun fact: the only show I was able to watch without subs was "H2O: Just Add Water" because 1) they didn't speak that fast; 2) it wasn't action-heavy; 3) subs weren't available and I really wanted to watch it lmao)

And I have experienced almost everything mentioned above. I once was watching a film, and they suddenly started speaking Portuguese (which is quite rare in an Anglophone production), and like, I understood what they said because it's my native language, but the "(speaking *language*)" was really annoying to see.

Additionally, this might be nit-picky of me, but in Star Wars: Rebels, on the scene when Sabine speaks with her brother over the ship comms, it appeared "(speaking Mando'a)". BUT the thing is, Mando'a HAS a dictionary !! It might not have the complexity and be as full of a language as other con-langs (like Dothraki and Klingon), and many idioms/phrases are invented by fans everyday BUT it's still a language !! Not random gibberish -_-

And finally, I have to say the following: I have Amazon Prime, HBO and Disney+ (all for free) and let me tell you that HBO's subtitles are the worst I've seen, my god. I watched Band of Brothers a couple months ago, and I only pushed through the horrible subtitles because the series itself was simply brilliant.

Like, y'all don't understand -- the subtitles had this really fucking weird formatting, it capitalized random words in the middle of the sentences, it didn't have proper punctuation sometimes? And didn't properly capitalize names ?? I noticed that if someone's name ended up coinciding with an existent word in English ("Dick" ; "Winters"), they were assumed as the word, and not the character's name ?? And "the series is 20 years old" isn't an excuse because I've seen 40-year-old films with MUCH better captions. Actually, even anime fansubs from the early 00's ARE better, for fuck's sake.

I know I wrote a fucking essay here, but I have A LOT of feelings about subtitles in general and I need to let them out sometimes.

Ableism in Subtitles

Something that really pisses me off is the litany of ableist issues found in subtitles. So, let's talk about 3 huge issues that need to stop.

Subtitles should never ever say [Speaking -language-]

When a hearing person is watching a TV show, or a stream, if someone starts speaking another language, if that hearing person knows that language, they will get to know what the person said, regardless of if the average viewer knows that foreign language.

Deaf and HOH viewers deserve the same opportunity, and to rob them of that opportunity by putting [speaking -language-] in the subtitles is ableist.

Every word spoken in a show or movie, unless given translated subtitles in the uncaptioned version of the show or movie, should have every word captioned exactly as it's spoken. If someone starts speaking Spanish, the words spoken in Spanish should be subtitled in Spanish. If someone starts speaking German, the words spoken in German should be subtitled in German.

When a show or movie is created, if you want a character to speak a foreign language, you get an actor who can speak that language. When you hire someone to transcribe a show into subtitles, your hire someone who can speak the languages spoken in the show, or you have them mark points where a foreign language speaker will need to assist and then have someone who speaks that language add in the parts that the transcriptionist can't.

Subtitles should never be cut short for convenience

This is something I see constantly. Shows and movies will frequently cut out words or even large chunks of a sentence from the subtitles to make the subtitles shorter.

When you remove descriptive words, parts of a sentence, or even whole sentences to cut down on the amount of subtitles in a given segment, you are completely changing the attitude, mood, and expression of those sentences. You can completely ruin all of the implicit feelings in a sentence if you remove words that show feelings or the way a person phrases things.

It is not your moral right, as a company or transcriptionist, to decide that deaf or HOH viewers shouldn't get the original phrasing.

I am not deaf or HOH. I have APD and have to use subtitles to keep up with what's being said, or I won't process it fast enough. Because of that, I get to see all of the ways subtitles deviate from the original wording all the time. This isn't an issue that just happens here and there. It happens in pretty much every episode of every show I've watched. And it's unacceptable.

Even if we ignore the way this impacts the intent of a sentence, this is ableist by its nature. When subtitles are made, they are made to fill the gap in a deaf or HOH person's TV experience. When you don't accurately fill that gap, or fill it partway, or half ass it, you are cutting corners on a disability aid. It's like if you sold someone a wheelchair with the wheels not pumped with enough air, or giving someone a hearing aid with damaged battery capacity.

When deaf or HOH people watch TV or movies and they use subtitles, they are relying on those subtitles to give them the most accurate wording possible. So why are companies directing or allowing their transcriptionists to half ass or cut down their subtitles? Every piece of media should be having its subtitles checked for accuracy before they're approved, and subtitles that cut corners should be amended before a show with subtitles is published or aired.

Subtitles should never censor words that aren't censored in audio

If a show or movie has swearing in it, of any kind, the subtitles should accurately depict what is happening audibly. If the audio has swear words censored, the subtitles should depict the noise - or lack thereof - that is used to censor the word. Subtitles should never be censored when the audio isn't.

Not only does this touch on the same issue from the last section, it's also ableist in another way. Not only are you giving deaf and HOH people a different experience than hearing people, you're also infantilizing them by disallowing them from hearing swear words that hearing viewers can hear.

Deaf and HOH adults are not children. They have just as much right to read the word "fuck" as a hearing person does to hear it. Censoring subtitles is disrespectful, ableist, and infantilizing and it needs to stop.

Make a change

I'm not familiar with the details of the ADA and how it regards subtitles, but if anyone would like to work with me to do something about this, I would really like to fight for subtitles to have more regulation.

If the ADA prohibits inaccurate subtitles, we should be reporting companies like Netflix who constantly provide inaccurate subtitles. If it doesn't, we should be fighting to amend the ADA to include regulations for subtitle accuracy.

Anyone who's researched this before or who knows more about it than I do, please tell me what you know or give me some sources I can look into myself. I would research from scratch but I'm disabled and don't have a lot of spoons for it, which is why I'd like to work together with others.

[autspoon]

How to make videos accessible to Blind and HoH/Deaf people???

I have some accessibility questions.

If you don’t have the answers, and you’re a blog where followers possibly could have answers, I’d love it if you would forward this.

I am planning to do some videos, I have already made some.

I will do captions for dialogue, or hope to have people help me at least. What are things that you, HoH/Deaf people, think should be avoided and what do you like im CCs? (closed captions)

And for people who are blind. How should I go about making videos accessible for you? Can image captions in subtitles be of any help? Especially for videos with no dialogue?

I want to make my videos easy to view and listen to, for those that cannot do that to some or all degrees. But I want to do it right, and I want to do it in a non-messy and non-clustered way.

[lesbianakaashi-archived]

me: if you’re not cluster b don’t reblog my cluster b posts please 

The Neurotypicals(TM):

[pdeggi]

my soul dies everytime i see those "antisocial social club" hoodies

[sweet-baby-haiden-blog]

Stop these v o i c e s

[gender-trash]

http://wearelikeyourchild.blogspot.com/2017/02/sometimes-its-not-me-its-you.html is INTENSELY RELATABLE

i mean realistically you’re never going to get people to Understand that they are inadvertently causing you immense pain through their careless actions. but. some days i just want to yell this at people

[autspoon]

i feel i should get a button that says something like “i struggle to come with verbal responses and might not hear what you say if we are in a noisy area”..

like, i really feel i need a button like that? or a badge or a sticker or something.. that’s basically like “will not be able to respond verbally”.. because i always feel so bad when people think i ignore them, and i’m always really worried someone will think i’m being rude at some point and decide to yell at me.

[splashesonrainbows]

Need some help learning ASL! Who wants to help me get motivated?? I recently got to spend time with some ASL interpreters and Deaf friends and got inspired to work on learning more ASL to help with my hearing/communication problems. I even have a fiance who is wonderful and wants to learn alongside me. But with starting work my motivation went *pfft* So I'm reaching out! Anyone willing to message me sometimes and tell me to get my butt in gear? Anyone have resources for learning ASL (I'm supposed to be checking out veditz online but haven't yet..) online? Anyone who knows ASL willing to help me? If you have any questions about why I want to learn/what problems I'm experiencing please feel free to message me.

[twyrinehaze]

my boss: *mumbles something at me while looking at me expectantly* me: .... yes ok

[teitomonogatari]

abt bpd & apd & anxiety & depression

hey all

so i’m making a Comprehensive List of my symptoms with my Mental Illnesses and Personality Disorders so i can make my parents understand how it is living in this hell everyday

so i was wondering if any of you could share their symptoms with me, especially the more forgotten ones because as much as the Big Sites help, there’s a lot of symptoms that you understand only by living with it and i wanna make sure i’m not forgetting any of them because i wanna make a Lasting Impression so they can fucking understand

so ya

tl;dr: share your symptoms with me so i can remember mine lol?