It's a deaf life

[deaf-a-rising]

Deaf Problem #92

Everyone is wearing masks and that makes life harder when you rely on lip-reading to help you out!

Looks like I gotta adapt again!

[writersblockhelper]

You kept trying to flirt with me in the library and you thought I was ignoring you. Actually I’m just deaf and had no idea. I think you’re cute though

[that-cyborg-life]

A friendly PSA:

Even if someone has hearing aids or cochlear implants, that does not, in any way, shape or form mean they’re obligated to wear them all the time.

It’s their own decision on when, where, and whether to wear them or not, and you don’t get to demand that of them just to make things a bit more convenient for you. You respect their no and respect their wishes.

[old-primavera-cerezos]

PSA: audio transcripts

If you’re going to reblog something that says “sound on omfg” or “volume up” or “listen to this!!!!” please know that without transcription you’re alienating D/deaf people, hard of hearing folks, anyone with auditory processing issues, and a whole host of other people.

I know it’s not intentional. I know it’s not super fun to write out the transcriptions. I get that.

All I’m asking is if you have the ability and the energy to do so, please take a minute to type out what’s said in the video. Doesn’t have to look beautiful. What song is playing, who says what, what sound effects happen. That’s all.

Thanks y’all.

[findwhatyourefightingfor-deacti]

Fuck people who do this. Seriously.

[ID: A YouTube comment by SugarsweetRomantic. It reads: "As a hard-of-hearing viewer: your closed-caption author is obnoxious and has added their own commentary, useless captions saying "dunno what he's saying" and whining about calling Wrecking Ball "Hammond". This makes watching the video extremely aggravating." /ID]

[deafsparks]

Is it valid to only just be getting my first hearing aids at 19/nearly 20? I always feel bad for being involved in deaf & HoH culture but i only started losing my hearing recently and i feel really out of place compared to other deaf/HoH people my age who have had their hearing aids since they were younger.

Anyone can go deaf at any age, so you’re totally valid! It might be hard to adjust when you’re older to hearing things again through an aid and get used to it. It’ll be difficult at first, of course, but I hope things will work out with you and it might be easier because you only recently started losing your hearing so you have an idea what things should sound like, I lost mine very young and so don’t know what natural hearing sounds like so it was actually hard for me to adjust as a kid. As for being out of place, I don’t think anyone will and should judge you. We’re all facing the same challenges after all!

Also the HoH community is mostly really supportive so you can feel free to reach out if you need to and don’t be shy about doing so. :)

[softboiclifford-blog]

I may be someone who isn’t deaf or hard of hearing but I really want to know why captioning/subtitles aren’t as common or even worded correctly as it should be, is it such an inconvenience? I mean you’re actually blocking potential people from your content bc it’s inaccessible.

[deafstarrr]

I had to screenshot this

[deafaux]

had someone ask me today if deaf people’s names matter to them since they don’t hear them 

[filiasyth]

when i see the term “hearing impaired” literally anywhere

[deafsparks]

Or written anywhere. I work in a medical office and I see “hearing impaired” written all the time and it makes me die a little inside :(

[through-it-all-it-is-well]

It’s 2019…

Quit saying the “r” word.

Quit saying “hearing impaired”. Use “Deaf” or “Hard of Hearing”.

Quit calling people with disabilities “inspirational”.

Quit assuming people with disabilities can’t do anything.

Caption your videos.

Start educating yourself about different disabilities.

People with disabilities are just as important as people without disabilities!!

[lesbian-bookworm]

Turning up the volume on someome fucking mumbling does not make their mumbling less mummbly or more understandable.

It just makes it very loud mumbling.

[sparkyrider]

😡

If I have to repeat to my parents that their excuse for always yelling at me is because I can’t hear despite me literally being right next to them during conversation one more time is NOT OK I might lose it.

Took all my energy to not be a grump volunteering this morning because I got screamed at pretty badly for not hearing/following directions regarding getting ice off the car this morning… and I was driving. Driving while angry is NOT something anyone should doing but it’s so hard to remain calm after years of not being able to properly communicate with my parents.

STOP YELLING AT YOUR KIDS IT DOESN’T HELP DEAF OR NOT!

…And my parents wonder why I booked another week long solo trip to Disney when I know I should be saving to move out… 🙄 At least I will be happy on vacation by my own damn self.

[deafsparks]

LOL at the Captioncall employees freaking out upon noticing in their system (months late) that we disconnected our landline since 90% of it was spam and naturally telling us to get back in touch with them to reconnect it. 

BY PHONE. Because clearly they noted the phone was for the hard of hearing and no mention of deaf anywhere in that email LOLOLOLOL. And that means you can call. So you can respond orally like a “normal” person how cool is THAT.

Well, thanks, but no thanks. We don’t have a working landline, so calling isn’t going to help. And I’m not using my cell phone. I’ll probably email them back later, for the bazillionth time because I keep getting different people in the system trying to contact me and clearly they don’t make a note of who contacted me before, to kindly stop sending these messages because I am well aware the captioned phone is disconnected and no, we can’t get it back up and quite frankly the lag was horrendous and didn’t help my job interviews.

So bye~

[thatdeaffeel]

That APD/HoH feel when you ask someone to say something a second time because it didn’t fully register, and they respond with “Oh, nevermind, you clearly weren’t paying attention anyway”

[trulymightypotato]

Stop Messing With Captions

So I went to watch Mark’s newest Try Not to Laugh video, since I needed a laugh after the day I’ve had, and guess what happened the second it loaded.

Guess why I have captions on Mark’s videos? Because there’s a 90% chance that I can’t properly process what he’s saying, but I want to enjoy the video anyway.

Doing this makes that impossible.

So, whoever put the captions on this video, and whoever puts captions on videos, this is not acceptable. I can’t enjoy this video because my brain is physically incapable of processing the sounds coherently on a reliable basis and you couldn’t find it in yourself to caption this accurately.

Hopefully, in a few days, these captions will have been fixed and I can actually watch the video. That tends not to happen, though, so I don’t have high hopes. And this happens on a lot of Mark’s videos; people thinking they’re being funny by doing the captions like this.

Even though it makes it impossible for me, and other people like me who rely on captions, to enjoy the video.

Which, really, doesn’t make you funny. It just makes you mean.

Stop it.

[hawkeye221b]

Listen:

It is at the point where I never turn on captions because of shit like this.

If anyone is unaware, I am 30-40% deaf in both ears. I almost always misinterpret what people are saying because of this.

I need captions. But because people like to do shit like this I have to turn my volume up.

I know, I know : “what a tragedy.”

But in the long run, a constantly higher volume is damaging to my already terrible hearing. And it’s not restricted to just me.

High volume on anything is hurtful to everyone.

And before y'all ask/tell us to fix it ourselves… I don’t think you understand the “hard of hearing” part…

[fangirltothefullest]

Please don’t ruin the captions!

[sparkyrider]

Doctor office blew up my phone with calls… clearly DEAF doesn’t mean anything to them *sigh*

Is it so hard for them to set up email for patients? You know. As an alternative. 😒

My biggest gripe is that Audis of all people don’t use email… you serve deaf people specifically and you have no text based communication when you know the ear(s) don’t work what even is that logic?!!!