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danandfuckingjonlmao · 1 month

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not that anyone is wondering or has noticed bc no one knows who i am lmao but the reason i’m often interacting with posts in the replies instead of reblogging your posts and putting comments in the tags is because y’all are STILL NOT CAPTIONING OR TRANSCRIBING THE VIDEOS YOU POST and i’m not gonna reblog uncaptioned videos like come on how many times do we have to have this conversation 😭😭😭

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raaorqtpbpdy · 1 year

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You know who never gets brought up when people talk about well written disabled protagonists that should? George Bailey from It’s a Wonderful Life. The man’s completely deaf in one ear, disabled enough to be denied military enlistment during WW2, but he still works hard for his family and his community, even though he has to sacrifice his own dreams to do it, and he’s just a genuinely good man.

Everyone I know has seen this movie but nobody ever talks about him being disabled. It’s not the most important thing in that movie, but it’s also something that can’t be ignored. He lost his hearing saving his brother’s life, it’s the whole reason he stayed home during the war and continued to serve his community instead of becoming a war hero like his brother, his hearing returning is the first sign of Clarence granting his wish to never be born and losing it again is one of the first signs of the wish being reverted. It IS important to his character and his story that he’s disabled, even though it’s not central to the plot, and the way it’s used as a motif in the story pleases me.

#forgive me if this has been said before but I’ve never seen it #george bailey #it’s a wonderful life #disability #disabled protagonist #deaf/hoh #hard of hearing #christmas movies #I watch this movie every year with my family and I cry

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pocketwatch-puppettalks · 2 months

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Being hard of hearing with juuust enough ability to hear people fine with your hearing aids really results in people treating you like you aren't deaf at all. I've been accused of 'not being THAT deaf' when I ask someone to repeat something or need them to tell me what someone else said. I am that deaf actually, Linda, being able to hear with my aid doesn't suddenly make me a hearing person - an aid is helpful, it's an aid, but it doesn't erase my disability. Anyway I'll be turning off my hearing aid now, so kindly fuck off Linda.

#there are so many 'lindas' i have to put up with on the daily #it's just ridiculous #hoh #hard of hearing #d/Deaf #deaf community #hoh community #deaf/hoh

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the-mountain-flower · 11 hours

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If I'm writing a character who is deaf and it gets autocorrected to dead one more time, I'm going to fucking lose it!!

#it was funny the first time #then it got sad bc it kept happening #then also annoying #now I'm ready to punch smn #anti ableism #deaf #writing struggles #ableism #deaf/hoh

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monochromayhem · 9 months

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Watching true crime videos and a detective deadass told a hard of hearing girl to “cool it with the hands”.

Like fuck off, deaf/hoh need their hands for communication and are more expressive with them. I hope someone shots in your cereal, detective.

(Note: I’m not deaf/hoh. My partner is CODA, my in laws are mostly to almost completely deaf, and I have autism. “Quiet Hands” damages autistics but it damages deaf/hoh individuals’ lives even more. I’ve had the privilege of having even the tiniest window into deaf culture and I will fucking fight to allow my loved ones to exist without needing hearing people mansplain things to them because I know the damage it can do. Fuck the investigators who put that young woman through that, learn some sensitivity training.)

#rant #deaf/hoh #deaf culture #I know I have no goddamn right invading the community and I’ll back off but I’m fucking salty #it’s just disrespectful #disrespectful and an asshole thing to do #tw ableism #tw quiet hands #quiet hands

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lifewithchronicpain · 2 years

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The way I see it, if it's such an important artistic choice for you to not translate other languages for the audience, fine. You should still at the very least have subtitles in that language for those who understand the language but are hard of hearing, deaf, or struggle with auditory processing disorder. I may not know fluent Spanish but if you gave me the subtitles at least I might have chance to parse a few words.

#disability #ableism #subtitles #deaf/hoh #auditory processing disorder

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ghostonly · 1 year

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Isn't the whole "speaks foreign language" subtitle thing due to the show itself not subtitling said foreign language? As in (and I hope I don't come off the wrong way), nine times out of ten it reflects the language barrier in the show itself amongst the characters.

The problem with putting "[Speaks foreign language]" isn't about it hurting the Vibes of the show, it's about the inherent inequality it causes between hearing and hoh/deaf viewers.

If someone is watching a show in English with Spanish as a language used periodically, a hearing viewer who speaks both English and Spanish will be able to understand everything being said, while a deaf viewer who reads/speaks both English and Spanish is refused subtitles for a possibly significant portion of the show.

I think, perhaps, the reason your thought process is so common among people in my notes is that people are conflating subtitling with translation. If a language barrier is a part of the story-telling (a poor, alienating decision in show writing, almost always), then the words don't need to be translated, but they should still be subtitled.

A translation, in shows where foreign languages should be understood, is usually built into the show, as many hearing viewers watch without subtitles on. However, when captions/subtitles are turned on, every spoken word should be subtitled in the language it's spoken in.

#subtitles #accessibility #captioning #deaf #deaf/hoh #hoh #auditory processing disorder #apd #ghostlyask

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nuka-cherries · 8 months

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as much as abled-hearing people praise not giving foreign languages subtitles in an english speaking movie/tv show....my brother in christ, i'm deaf as hell and them taking away subtitles makes it all more difficult for us to enjoy things and UNDERSTAND them l m f a o

like i see the praise and i'm like, ok? good for you? just as subtitles are getting more normalized, y'all wanna take it away some more. the act of it is not making money moves for the deaf folk like y'all think it is lol i'm just SAYIN

hearing folks, don't y'all comment. just scroll, or like, or whatever the hell. this is for the 🧏🏼🦻🏼 folks

#esme makes a text post #deaf/hoh #actually hard of hearing #actually deaf #movies #movie subtitles

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velociheroviridi · 2 months

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Question for my Deaf/Hoh weebs who mainly communicate via sign language: do y'all ever sign the word "nani" and if so is it done through fingerspelling or a special sign?

#had the thought of fingerspelling it and i was just curious #deaf/hoh #weeb #viridi posts 2024 #questions to ponder #its also interesting to me as someone into linguistics and japanese language #linguistics

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disability-can-be · 2 months

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Does TTY relay like...never work or is that just me

#deaf/hoh #hearing loss #audio processing disorder

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wheelie-sick · 9 months

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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

#actually autistic #ActuallyAutistic #actually deaf #ActuallyDeaf #actually hard of hearing #actually hoh #actuallyHOH

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a-common-wybie · 3 months

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i appreciate you

people with Deaf accent

people with speech impediments

people who are semi speaking

people who are non speaking

people who are unable to be understood

people who use AAC

people who need help to speak

people who are selectively mute

people who need surgeries for speech

people who use signed language

people who communicate through sounds

people with electrolarynx

disabled people with speech problems or accents as a result of their disability

<3

#actually disabled #disability #wybie speaks #deaf #hoh #disability positivity #positivity #autism #disability rights #disabled community

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violetstarr24 · 10 months

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Haven't seen any posts for you guys, so... happy disability pride month to Deaf/HoH folks. Happy disability pride month to those with hearing aids or cochlear implants, and those without them. Happy disability pride month to those who use ASL as their primary language, and those who don't know ASL at all. Happy disability pride month to those with equal hearing loss in both ears, and to those with uneven hearing loss or hearing loss that only effects one ear. Happy disability pride month to those who were born with their hearing loss, and happy disability pride month to those who acquired their hearing loss over their lifetime. And lastly—happy disability pride month to my besties with SSHL (Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss). Stay strong <3

#disability pride month #hoh #deaf #actually hoh #actually disabled

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gayvampyr · 8 months

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one thing i hate about being “out” as autistic is suddenly all communication errors are your fault. unclear directions were given? your fault for being autistic, you must’ve misunderstood directions that were “probably perfectly clear.” not enough actionable information was provided for you? it must just be your autism, you should’ve picked up on what wasn’t said. they didn’t actually tell you what you were supposed to do and expected you to read their mind? your fault, not the allistic’s for not accommodating you or just saying what they want. because apparently it’s a one way street where autistics have to bend over backward to conform and placate allistics. its your fault even when they’re 100% culpable. i hate it

#autism #actually autistic #probably also applicable to deaf and HoH people but i can’t speak on that #i have apd but it’s not quite the same #text post #top posts

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ricky-mortis · 2 months

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Richie doodles bc my two current WIPs are actively trying to murder me dead.

Feat. my trans + hard of hearing HCs

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unclewaynemunson · 5 months

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After Vecna is defeated and the world goes back to normal for good, Steve thinks he can get on with his life. And for a while that's exactly what happens: his scars heal and, against everything he would have ever expected, Eddie heals right beside him.

But a year later, his life gets turned upside down in a whole new way. He gets one more hit to the head. It's a stupid accident, really, something involving a broken lightbulb, an old stepladder and an unfortunate fall. He loses pretty much all his sight. His once expressive brown eyes become hollow shells, one staring right ahead and one turned sideways, but both equally useless.

At first, the darkness is scary. It's frustrating, to be robbed of one of the few things he could always rely on. He has to get to know the world around him in a whole new way. There are days when he hates it, days when he wants to stay in bed in his room forever. There are days when he wants to scream, even days when he wants to cut his own eyes out like Victor Creel did before him.

But slowly, little by little, he learns to live with it. He grows a new appreciation for beautiful music and good food, things that stimulate his other senses that he now relies more heavily on. He develops a sharp ear for people's voices and intonations to make up for the loss of seeing their facial expressions. Where he used to love seeing Robin's bright eyes and Dustin's excited smile, he now treasures the sound of Dustin's laughter and the scent of Robin's cologne.

The one thing he will never stop missing, though, is Eddie's face. The way his eyes light up when he smiles. The way his mouth curves into that mischievous grin that Steve once fell in love with. The way his fluffy curls cascade over his back. Those are the things he misses the most.

There's a lot that makes up for that loss: he can cling to Eddie's arm whenever he wants, without having to worry about people taking their affectionate touches the wrong way. He gets to rely on Eddie's helping hand and to bask in Eddie's scent. And, most importantly: he gets to listen to Eddie's voice all the time, when he describes what's happening around them in lively phrases and with passion in his voice like the true storyteller he is.

“Do you know that there's one thing you're always leaving out when you're describing things to me?” Steve asks him one day, when he feels Eddie's hands move through the air around them during his excited monologue about the orange cat that is currently visiting their garden, chasing after butterflies and going after its own tail in the flowerbeds.

“Huh?” Eddie sounds confused.

“You're always leaving out the most important part,” Steve continues. He lifts his hand and slowly moves it to find Eddie's face. He feels his curls underneath his fingertips, then slides them further over Eddie's features.

“What do you mean, Stevie?”

“You never mention how you look. Only what you see. But if I could see, I'd be looking at you, Eddie. I'd watch your face. I can still remember that curve of your mouth, that crease between your eyebrows...” He lets his hand linger on the places he mentions. “But it's all becoming less clear. I'll never see it again. I don't wanna lose that.”

Steve feels his hand getting covered by another one, lets his fingers be guided across Eddie's cheek.

“You won't,” Eddie tells him softly. “There's no way I'll let you lose that.”

Steve can already feel the change in temperature underneath his fingers before Eddie speaks.

“I'm blushing right now, Stevie. Cause of what you said. And...” He guides Steve's hand further down over the uneven skin of his scarred cheek. “I'm smiling. Just a little bit. Not that wide smile I have when I'm messing with you, but the smaller one, the one that's just for you.”

Eddie squeezes his hand before he lets go. A moment later, his lips brush softly against Steve's, something that's not quite a kiss. Steve can feel that Eddie is about to pull back before it becomes anything more, but he presses back into Eddie's space, chases his warm lips with his own, and wraps his arms around Eddie's body to pull him closer.

Kissing is best without looking anyway.

#don't mind me rambling about stranger things #i love all the deaf/hoh steve headcanons with all my heart but #have something a lil different i guess #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #blind!steve #stranger things #fanfic #fruity ficlet

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