#deaf present mic

[sassypantsjaxon]

It's always 'wow Aizawa, how do you put up with someone as loud and annoying as Mic?' And never 'gee Mic, it must be nice to have someone quiet to still be around when the listening fatigue hits'

[oopsglitch]

People who argue against deaf Bakugou and Present Mic headcanons because "their body is built for their quirk" are actually kinda obnoxious.

Firstly: let people have fun, it's a headcanon for a reason.

Second: Bakugou's quirk literally killed him. Clearly, there can be ways that your body isn't perfectly optimized for it.

Third: What if them being hard of hearing IS their body being optimized for their quirk? If it's lower volume for you, it isn't as much of a bother.

[mirukosbitchywife]

me reaching out my silly little disabled hands to rub my disabilities all over fictional characters (i know some of their disabilities are canon but some aren't)

tomura has severe eczema and also isnt he like an amputee

dabi has chronic pain obviously and due to his burns have lost some functionality in his eyes

izuku has arthritis

shouto can't see out of his burned eye

katsuki is deaf

present mic is deaf

aizawa is also half blind

miruko is an amputee

twice has did

mina suffers from acidosis commonly

[metablood]

OK but what about... Deaf Eraserhead? (En/Fr)

In English

Deaf Present Mic is a popular fanon character, but what about deaf Eraserhead ?

Middle School is terrible, he was bullied about his hearing aids, so he let his hair grow just before highschool so he could hide them. He decided to just pretend not to being deaf and never talking about it again.

He lies on his UA application, he's supposed to disclose any "disability or special needs" but simply leaves the line blank. Hearing aids are good quality nowadays, most of the time he pretends that he hears perfectly anyway.

When he finally manages to enter the Heroe Course, the first person he hears is Yamada Hizashi. The guy is loud, sure. But he also has a perfect enunciation, he speaks as if he was on stage all the time. For most people, Hizashi is simply too loud, but for Shouta's ears, he talks just at the right volume. It's like a voice tailored for his needs !

Eventually, Aizawa needs to let his teachers now about his hearing aids, so the support course makes him compatible headset. When Oboro and Hizashi find out, Shouta is terrified. Hizashi simply doesn't understand why he would hide his hearing aids: "they look so cool ! It's like an early Bose intra-ear design from the 2020's !" Oboro immediatly understand that something bad must have happened in middle school.

En Français

Present Mic sourd est un personnage populaire du fandom, mais essayons Eraserhead sourd...

Le collège, c'est nul, on le harcèle à cause de ses aides auditives, alors il se laisse pousser les cheveux avant le lycée pour pouvoir les cacher. Il décide de dissimuler sa surdité et de ne plus jamais en parler.

Il ment sur son formulaire d'inscription à UA, où il était censé indiquer tout "handicap où aménagements nécessaires", mais il laisse juste un espace blanc. Les aides auditives sont de bonnes qualité de nos jours, la plupart du temps il fait déjà semblant de bien entendre.

Quand il finit par entrer en filière héroïque, la première personne qu'il entend est Hizashi Yamada. Ce mec est parle fort, bien sûr. Mais il a aussi une énonciation impeccable, comme s'il était sur scène. Pour la plupart des gens, Hizashi est simplement trop bruyant, mais pour Shouta, c'est le volume idéal. C'est comme si sa voix avait été conçue sur mesure juste pour lui !

Aizawa finit par devoir informer ses profs pour que la filière assistance lui fasse un micro-casque adapté. Quand Oboro et Hizashi le découvrent, Shouta est terrifié. Hizashi ne comprend simplement pas pourquoi il cacherait ses aides auditives : "elles sont trop cools ! On dirait le design des intra-auriculaire Bose des années 2020 !" Oboro comprend immédiatement que quelque chose a du arriver au collège.

[shabby-art]

After reading @s0fter-sin 's fic series How We Do It In The Murder Scene I couldn't not draw our favourite boys in full murder mode. I have a soft spot for unhinged characers being completely in love.

The fics are amazing reads btw if you can handle blood, gore, torture, love and porn and I can highly reccommend.

[19catsncounting]

AU where Eri was abandoned in front of a hero agency in the dead of night instead of being handed off to Eri's grandfather, and gets adopted by Three Whole Dads.

Deaf!YamaDad tends to wake up his fellow early bird Eri and tries to teach her a little Japanese Sign Language since she's still learning to talk. (And squeals over her 'babble signs')

Then, ShiraDad almost has as much fun playing with pretty pink unicorns as Eri does. (A mountain of tiny pairs of Crocs is just outside the frame)

And if Eri has trouble falling asleep at night, Dadzawa is equipped to take over with a sippy cup of warm milk and some baby sensory videos. (Even if Aizawa finds it easier to fall asleep while watching some bouncing fruit with a toddler, he will never admit it.)

[bingewatchintilldawn]

Oh.My.God...

I LOVE THIS FANFICTION LIKE EHDBJDBSJFBJSBFJDBDJ, IT'S JUST 🤌🤌🤌👌👌👌👌

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[nyx3927]

I see a lot of deaf Bakugō or deaf Present Mic headcanons floating around and I figured that y’all could use some more technical information on it instead of just “can’t hear” and “learns sign language”.

This is going under a cut since it is a lot but it is all information that would help with writing/developing a good Deaf character and not just focusing on what inconveniences/fascinates hearing people.

It covers assistive devices and fittings, audiograms, medical stuff, and the Deaf community.

Please note that this is not an exhaustive covering of all the technical aspects and is based mainly off of what I’ve experienced/have seen happen/have asked professionals about. I might come back and add more as more comes to me.

1) Types of assistive devices that can be used to help reach the needed level of hearing

The devices depend on the severity of the hearing loss. That is determined by an audiogram which tests the quietest noise at a frequency you can hear which is discussed later.

If you have a mild hearing loss, the chances of you needing an assistive device is low, almost nonexistent. That is because you can still hear the speech of most people which is what an assistive device helps with.

The two assistive devices used are a hearing aid and a cochlear implant.

A cochlear is only for profound or total deafness. You can only hear really loud things, and sometimes not even that. The basics of how it works is you have a sound processor that converts noises to electrical impulses which go to the physical cochlear. It requires surgery to install and you can get that at 12 months at the youngest.

A hearing aid has 6 different appearances which depend on what your needs are and what you want.

a)iitc-invisible in the canal. People can’t see it but it’s better for less severe hearing losses because it’s smaller and can’t process as much

b)cic-completely in the canal. Pretty much the same as an iitc just a bit bigger and more visible.

c)itc-in the canal. Again, same as above, but it does have more ability to help with more severe hearing loss.

d)ite-in the ear. Visible, and can help with moderate hearing loss.

Most in the canal designs are made for less severe hearing loss and better. They’re small and discreet, especially if you get skin-colored ones. They also can have smaller batteries which can be an issue for dexterity.

e)ric- reciever in canal. The power bank is behind the ear while the reciever that makes the noise is in the canal

f)bte-behind the ear. Most visible

The ones that go behind the ear are best for connecting with additional assistive devices because you can fit Bluetooth in or connect a receiver to it. These are also good for children who lose things and are a bit sturdier.

2) What an audiogram is and how you get one

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This is an audiogram with the “speech banana”(the yellow banana shape) which is where you have to be to hear and understand speech without any devices and it is how you find out if you have a hearing loss.

To get one, you have to go to an audiologist and take quite a few tests that take forever and suck. Keep in mind, these tests can go in any order but as kids are a handful they tend to go in this order from experience.

Test one: You go into a little sound dampening booth so you can’t hear outside of it and the doctor puts what is basically wired earbuds in your ear. They leave and sit at a table full of controls and start pressing buttons. You’re told to repeat whatever words you hear through the earbuds and you do it. It goes on for a while, lots of boring words and struggling to make one out, it is done in a single ear and both ears. It can be done by the doctor saying words but that’s not as common in professional settings.

Test two: You stay in the little booth with the earbuds. Now you have to listen to sounds and confirm that you heard the sounds. This can be done verbally, by raising your hand, or by pressing a clicker that tells the doc you heard it. The sounds are piped in through one ear at a time, this is to determine if one ear has a more severe hearing loss

Test three: The doc comes back in and removes the earbuds. Next, they put a special band on your head that looks like a headband but has a cold hard bit on the end that goes right on the bone behind your ear. It hurts and is very uncomfortable. Then repeat the same stuff as test two with the doc coming in to put the headband on the other side of the head so both sides hurt from the bit on the end.

3) Hearing aid fitting

First step, you go and get any big lumps of earwax in your ears cleaned out. Too much earwax means they can’t make a mold of your ear. Second, the doc shoves mini sponges with a string attached into your ear to make sure that you don’t get anything down the canal and it doesn’t get lost. Third, they open up a package with a syringe and some sort of molding stuff, I don’t know what it’s called, but it’s often blue or pink or a mixture. The molding stuff gets put in the syringe which is then used to fill up your ear. The stuff is cold and feels weird while it’s drying which takes ~5 mins, and while it is in there you cannot hear a single thing from that ear. Then the doc pulls the dried thing out of your ear using the string and you have an ear mold for the hearing aid. Repeat for other ear if needed.

Couple weeks later, you go back and the doctor has your completed hearing aid with everything preset to compensate for your level of hearing loss and a perfect fit in your ears. Then you fiddle with the settings a bit so that you’re comfy and trim the wire if it’s a bte to make it sit better. It’ll feel weird for a bit as you adjust to it, but it’ll feel comfy after a week or two.

4) Deaf community and sign language

First, sign is a real language which has its own dialect, slang, jokes, and grammar. Go away if you disagree.

Second, one sign language isn’t the same as another. ASL is not the same as BSL which is different from JSL which has little in common with SSL. There are similarities but they are very different from each other. I can’t interpret for a deaf British person because I don’t know BSL

Third, yes staring at someone who is signing is rude and annoying. If you know it, it’s like you’re eavesdropping on them. If you don’t know it, it’s like staring at someone speaking a language you don’t know just because you don’t understand them.

Fourth, sign names are given by a Deaf person. If you’re hearing and learning sign, you can’t give yourself a sign name, that’s disrespectful.

Fifth, most Deaf adults don’t support getting cochlears when a kid is still a toddler or younger because it implies that deafness is something that needs to be fixed and the kid has no real say in the matter.

Sixth, Deaf person and deaf person are two different things. It’s similar to identity first vs person first language, but not the exact same.

Seventh, the Deaf community is fairly welcoming to everyone. Someone who’s just going deaf is just as welcome as someone who’s been deaf all their life. A hearing person learning sign is welcomed in as long as they’re polite and don’t expect the community to shift to make them more comfortable. A parent of a deaf kid is welcomed and given information that the kid needs.

5) Medical Stuff

Technically, speaking if you have any sort of hearing loss, you should wear a medical alert bracelet. It’d have your name, a phone number, if you wear a hearing aid, cochlear, and/or use ASL, and says that you might not respond to vocal prompts. Most of us don’t wear them, it’s just kinda a hassle to do.

Since both cochlears and hearing aids do have metal, you have to be careful about MRIs because if they are removed, they can get ripped out and injure you further. That mainly a concern for cochlears since they’re surgically installed under the skin and not visible unless the outer piece is on

Using hearing aids does cause earwax buildup, so you need to get that cleaned out regularly or it’s make your hearing worse.

Audiograms are typically redone every 5-ish years to update the cochlear/hearing aid ability and to make sure you’re getting what you need.

Anyone can get hearing loss, and it’s almost impossible to not get it as you age. The severity of the hearing loss is dependent on what you do and where you live. The chances of a single accident wiping out all of your hearing and rendering you completely deaf is fairly low, but not impossible.