i wanna hear ur deaf haikyuu characters headcanons !
under a cut because i dont want this taking up everyones dashboard
OKAY OKAY ANYWAY
disclaimer: Deaf is someone born into the Deaf community, and has no hearing. they use sign language as their main way of communicating in offline spaces. deaf is someone who can be hard-of-hearing (like me) or can be fully deaf, but it is from hearing loss not being born that way. HoH is Hard-of-Hearing, and deafblind is someone with both vision and hearing loss (for example, i have no vision or hearing on my right, so i would be deafblind, but as i dont use sign language i would be part of the HoH community.) “sign” is a shorthand way of saying “sign language”.
on karasuno i feel like it would be an all deaf/HoH team but the 3rd years r all deafblind. smth about graduating right after nationals smth smth vision loss idk it fits.
in a similar thread, when yachi joins the team she recently got hearing aids and everyones like “wow so cool”. she adds little star stickers to them and in her 3rd year little crow stickers get added too.
hinata got hearing aids in 3rd grade, right after he started to lose his hearing. he does not wear them unless he’s at school and uses sign instead when hes around friends/family. natsu got glitter glue on his first pair and thy were not the same since.
i dont rlly have any other thoughts on karasuno deafness aside from noya being Deaf ^_^
on shiratorizawa everyone is Deaf and goshiki is deafblind, with 75% vision loss in his eyes after head injury. semi wears hearing aids but has those little charms on them. ushijima ends up getting his hearing fixed after he graduates because he needed it when he visited his dad in america
seijoh is the only team where i think most of them are HoH/hearing tbh . iwaizumi is definitely deaf though. kyoutani is deaf as well but has cochlear implants.
nekoma is a mixed team, though most of the 2nd.3rd years are HoH. lev is the most noteable hearing kid and consistently forgets to use sign at practice. he doesnt know any regional signs either so when he sees karasuno signing for the first time yaku and kenma (both Deaf, as well as kuroo) have to spend forever explaining that different regions use different signs.
whn karasuno goes to national and they see all the Actual Powerhouse schools have name signs for each member of their team theyre like “wow thats crazy. we should do that” adn then they doesnt</4
inarizaki is also a mainly hearing team, though osamu and kita are both HoH to me. suna is just visually impaired.
on fukuroudani everyone is HoH, exception being bokuto, who is fully deaf. they dont use sign though unless talking to other deaf people (namely during the tokyo training arc.)
i could probably go on further & elaborate some more but i am quite a bit tired -_- thanks for listening though:)
