#actuallyHOH

[wheelie-sick]

please remember that super hearing is not the default for autistic people.

autistic people are 10 times more likely to have hearing loss than allistic people! so many of us aren't able to hear the lights or the fridge. we're often sensory seeking for sounds because we're deprived of them. even when we are sensory avoidant for sounds our sensory avoidance frequently presents differently

hearing is not the default for autism

super hearing is not a universal autism experience

please remember deaf/hard of hearing autistics

[not-that-debonair]

I know it’s not the biggest thing but why is it so hard for people to grasp what the purpose of subtitles is cause I am so sick of being spoiled by them revealing characters’s names/purpose before the dialogue does.

[hard-of-death]

15 years later and I still don't understand why you can put advertisements on fucking captions like ??? I'm deaf I want to know what is being said not buy ur damn ass product !!!

People talk about capitalism hell as if it wasn't here but fuck damn if it isn't here already for us

[mxoleander]

I'm gonna rant/vent abt this here

so the audiologist i've had since I was 7 retired and Friday was my first appointment with his replacement and I... hated her...

I've had this issue my entire life where absolutely nobody takes my hearing loss seriously because it's "cookie bite" which means my middle range is fucked, I can hear limited low tones and high tones but specifically the tone in which most people speak at is gone

My old audiologist was the only person who took me seriously, probably because he specializes in the cochlear and was the first dr in my state to preform a cochlear implant, he never told me I needed to hide my struggles, never needed to feel shame

This new girl I'm sure meant we'll, gods know they all do, downplayed my struggles because my parents made damn sure I could carry a conversation even when I have not a single fuck what's being said, implied I wouldn't need hearing aids and was only doing so cause I asked, and then icing on cake pushed me towards colors that would hide them.. oh! her face was also covered with a mask the entire time! You'd think an audiologist would have clear masks, but nope! So I was confused as fuck the whole time!

I ended up feelings so anxious I didn't ask anything and just agreed, I should've brought my mother she offered but I figured it'd be fine, completely wrong on my part!

Anyways, so like 30 minutes after the appointment, after we already made the order papers (yes I'm aware this is a dick move, I'm SORRY) I messaged her my concerns, questions, and asked if the color could be changed

I've been to anxious to check the portal to see if she responded.. my therapist is on Thursday but I'm still on that "I must make my therapist like me, wanting a Good Grade in therapy is both achievable and normal!" phase so I'm not even sure if I'll tell her...

ughhhh worst part is I'm just angry at myself, i speak so much about advocating for yourself and help others in doing so but I can't even do it! fuck!

[violetstarr24]

hate when im doing a hearing test and my tinnitus copies the beeping noises. bITCH STOP SABOTAGING ME

[frozenflvrries]

Same here😊

Access for DeafBlind

As a person who has low vision, residual hearing… I cannot use a screen reader. I don’t know braille. I use a magnification device on my computer, enlarge text on my phone. 

I love the iPhone, it is accessible. To the most part. Except for me, I cannot access the Emoji’s. Voiceover, doesn’t do much. Magnification it only does so much and I am a fast typer/texter, my patience runs out searching for the ‘right’ emoji (after 5 minutes of searching). If it’s not my patience, it’s my vision that goes out and becomes exhausted searching (so close to the screen). 

I wish the Emoji’s could be enlarged… just like the text can. It’s a win-lose situation. But at least, I have access to online, internet and can text!

[bodhrancomedy]

More tips on hearing aids and writing them!

[inthewaytoamultilinguallife]

Shout out to people that will never be able to speak “flawlessly” in another language because they are mute, semi verbal, or have a speech impediment, shout out to people that will always need captions/subtitles when watching stuff in their target language because they have hearing loss, APD, etc.

Shout out to people who can't stick to strict routines to study because they have chronic fatigue, chronic pain, ADHD, or alike, shout out to people whose spelling will never be perfect because they are dyslexic, to people who will always struggle to write in other alphabets because they have motrix issues.

Shout out to people whose brains won’t collaborate when they want it to, hindering their study. To people who will always have to neglect one aspect of language because of their disability, to people that have to work with inaccessible resources and are told to just “put up” with it and to just get through

Shout out to people that are disabled and neurodivergent and have to deal daily with the expectations and impossible goals people put on us that deems us “not good enough” in our own language, and much less in any target language we might have

[trabandovidas]

I love when people mistakes the "I love you" ASL sign (🤟) for the "Devil horns" gesture (🤘)

Like hell yeah dude you are so tough and edgy while signing I love you, I love you too, whatever 🤟💜

[frozenflvrries]

I got recently diagnosed with mild bilateral sensorineural hearing loss.. I’m HoH!

are there just not many Deaf people on here? most of the people i've seen in the deaf/hoh tags aren't Deaf, at least in the few years i've been following the tags

[raccooninapartyhat]

hearing people will never understand how frustrating and sometimes depressing it is for me to hear the phrase "never mind"

[wheelie-sick]

happy deaf month to all the deafies who aren't palatable to hearing people!!! happy deaf month to every deaf person who:

refuses to speak for hearing people and only signs

prefers signing to speaking

refuses to wear hearing aids or cochlear implants

refuses to engage with people who aren't willing to accommodate them

doesn't "try their hardest" to fit in with the hearing world

doesn't care to fit into the hearing world and prefers the Deaf world

doesn't tone down their bluntness for hearing people

you are wonderful and ILY 🤟

[cannabiscomrade]

You can tell me to stop buying Apple products when Samsung and other brands improve their HOH/Deaf accessibility features

Either way though I shouldn’t be tethered to one brand just because the accessibility market happens to be better with one product; there should be a standard of production when it comes to accessibility features

[hohdeaf-headcanons]

Fellow hearing aid wearers i have a question for ye

What kind of container do you put your hearing aids in

Where is said container

How often do they go into a dehumidifier

[not-that-debonair]

Precariously balancing my earphone on the microphone of my hearing aid to access ✨Music Deluxe (tm)✨

[bodhrancomedy]

Because a gay Deaf pirate behaving like a cat with his claws caught is EXACTLY what Our Flag Means Death needs.

It’s BSL, but I’m still learning.