#actuallyhardofhearing

[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 🤟

[not-that-debonair]

YO HOLY SHIT I JUST FOUND OUT THAT PHONE ACCESSIBILITY SETTINGS MEANS I CAN ADJUST THE LEVEL OF STEREO SOUND

I cannot tell you how happy I am do you know how long I’ve had to deal with my piece of shit left ear meaning that I can only hear half the song.

I AM OVER THE MOON I AM SO ECSTATIC I CAN HEAR MORE SHIT NOW AHHHH

[awnfox]

PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO BECAUSE IT IS IMPORTANT TO THE DISABLED COMMUNITY'S ACCESSIBILITY AND AS A HARD OF HEARING PERSON WITH AN AUDITORY PROCESSING DELAY THIS GREATLY AFFECTS MY YOUTUBE EXPERIENCE!!!

AND IF EVERYONE COULD DO ME A FAVOUR AND SIGN THIS PETITION IT WOULD MEAN THE WORLD TO ME

[my-hyucking-spoons]

Hearing loss level: no headphones or volume busters work anymore. Everything is too quiet. Wtf are asmrs. Where is the sound

[thedeafzebra]

The True Biz Businesses group is now set to public! 

The list is still empty as no one has asked to be added. Any sites/links are can be accepted: Etsy, Ebay, Facebook Pages, personal websites if you have one, among others, whatever you use to sell what you make.

Also, you do not have to sell things that are ASL/deaf related to be added to the list.   

[deafpunkk]

let’s schedule the Deaf employee for FOUR PHONE SHIFTS THIS WEEK SPLENDID IDEA HIGH FIVE.

-___-

[wheelie-sick]

hearing people are strongly encouraged not to vote

I'm just curious because I've noticed I don't struggle with eye contact while signing (but I do when speaking)

[wheelie-sick]

it's Deaf awareness month! I'm congenitally and culturally Deaf. I come from a deaf family and my first language was ASL though my family switched to oralism at a young age

I grew up Deaf and I grew up trying to be palatable to hearing people. I wanted to be accepted and included in their world so I tried my hardest to fit in but I learned it was never enough and never would be enough. the hearing world was always destined to hate the Deaf world, we are incompatible.

no matter how hard I tried to tone down my bluntness I was still rude

no matter how hard I tried to hear what other people were saying I was still ignoring them

no matter how many times I'd apologize for needing repeats I still didn't care what they were saying

no matter how many times I asked questions in class and engaged in discussion I was still lazy and not paying attention

the world is cruel to Deaf people and eventually I decided that I needed to stop trying to be hearing. I relearned ASL and started to connect with the community around me. my friends started to learn sign and it felt like healing. the first time I had a full conversation in ASL with another Deaf person in my adult life I felt like crying tears of joy because I knew I had found my home. I knew I had a community that would understand me. for the first time in my life I wasn't lazy and ignorant, I wasn't rude and I wasn't uncaring. the Deaf community feels safe and like home, it's magic.

[wheelie-sick]

I don't know how to quantify how much relearning ASL has meant to me but when I say it's been one of my most meaningful parts of my life I mean it. the ability to just communicate with ease and without pain and struggle is so huge. the embrace of the Deaf community has meant that I have never not felt at home after learning ASL and integrating into the community. ASL makes me feel alive, the Deaf community makes me feel alive. I never felt truly at home speaking English but relearning ASL has felt like returning home

I always want to encourage deaf/hoh people who don't know sign to pick it up because it is such a fulfilling experience. the hearing world is unwelcoming but the Deaf community will embrace you at any time. it's not too late to learn and integrate with the community. it's not too late to come home

[wheelie-sick]

thought I'd share some educational content about deafness:

hearing impaired & audibly impaired are euphemisms

hearing impaired & audibly impaired are equivalents to "differently abled" and are just as offensive

please stop saying that they are preferred terms. they are not.

just say deaf

[wheelie-sick]

btw if you're deaf/hard of hearing and considering learning a sign language but you're worried because you've struggled with language learning in the past- try anyways. you are wired for visual language and will probably find sign languages much easier to learn than spoken ones

[wheelie-sick]

hello hello does anyone here have an FM system? did yours randomly disconnect at times? if so, how did you uhhh stop that from happening?

I'm getting increasingly annoyed with the frequency of disconnects with my Roger pen

[wheelie-sick]

hello! i’m so sorry if you’re not the right person to ask this, but i’m not sure who else to ask (if this is invasive or you know someone who is better equipped to answer the question, please let me know!!)

i know you do not like the term hard of hearing and much prefer the term deaf, i completely understand that and am NOT arguing about that. i was wondering what term may be preferred if i know somebody has a hearing disability but may not be deaf? is it just “hearing disabled” or is the term deaf still applicable?

thank you so much and i am so sorry for bothering you!! :)

deaf is still applicable! broadly speaking, within the community people consider anyone with hearing loss to be deaf. you could use hearing disability if you know someone actually identifies as disabled (not all d/Deaf people do) but it sounds a little awkward. there's also the abbreviation DHOH if you're talking about someone online, or just fully saying "deaf or hard of hearing" offline.

it's also worth mentioning that hard of hearing isn't an offensive term unless you're using it to strip someone of their identity. if you refer to someone as hard of hearing they probably won't be mad, you just might get corrected. it's only a problem if you know that someone identifies as d/Deaf and use hard of hearing anyways. (that's why it's a problem for me, I introduce myself as Deaf and people change it to hard of hearing because they don't think I'm "Deaf enough" my problem is with the action of having my identity stripped away not with the term)

[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

[wheelie-sick]

I hate urgent cares because they never know what to do with Deaf people. like, I can't hear my name called?? and they rarely remember to actually come tap my shoulder to get me so they call my name like 5 times before the people at the front desk come get me and then everyone is frustrated with me like it's my fault somehow???