#deaf tag

[thatdeaffeel]

tdf when UNMUTE! SOUND ON! MUST HEAR! AMAZING NOISE!

could you fuckers PLEASE subtitle things

[bobadookk]

[whitesdni-archived]

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:)

[evergardenwall]

...cochlear implants are basically ear automails

[spursnroses]

growing up deaf means missing out on years of valuable job experience because hearing people didn't want to give you a chance, and then as an adult, they still don't want to hire you because you didn't qualify due to not having enough experience.

[marcomardon]

hartley rathaway + deafness headcanons because i’m deaf and tired of that part of him being forgotten/botched all the time

hartley’s rich-ass parents tried to get his deafness “fixed” via the latest tech, and so he didn’t grow up signing

he has a special... cochlear and middle ear combination implant? replacing the ear drum isn’t common practice, but here we have 2002 comic book pseudomedicine

so anyways, hartley’s raised oral deaf, raised on lipreading, which means the absolute first thing he does once he’s emancipated is learn sign language.

thoroughly enjoys turning OFF his implants (very possible, actually, not that comic artists get it right) maybe to tinker with it to get wireless chargers in his pillow or something. the deaf dream.

and the first thing you do once you learn ASL is demand everyone you interact with *also* use it so, the rest of the early rogues learned some sign!

pretty useful when you’re trying to be silent say, during a job

turns out the mirror masters already knew it, since the best way to communicate through a mirror is, you said it, visually

literally any speedster is the worst person to be deaf around, if wally’s speaking or doing any basic signs it’s waay too fast slow down we’re not all speedsters

generally helps out low income families with the obnoxious costs of hearing aids and family sign courses 

tv version! also deaf! @ flash writers fight me

same idea, but definitely born a hearie and tinnitus forced him to figure out how the fuck to communicate all over again, it’s not an easy road, mostly pretty isolated

his implants are primarily just tinnitus relief, which, if you don’t know, is tech that “matches” the tinnitus frequencies and volume and cancels it, in a way. hearing is absolutely not restored.

pretty much any scene where he has his back turned? he can’t hear shit

could be intentionally ignoring. probably intentionally ignoring.

more for either version

top has ménière‘s disease anyway, it’s within their best interest to learn how to communicate with ASL before it eats away their hearing fully

hartley being off on his own quiet world in chaos. fires in the background, flash whipping around, someone yells “where the fuck is hartley” -- cuts to him quietly tucked in a corner adjusting a trip wire.

turns on his communicator* to update that it’s done, turns out flash has them all caught already, didn’t even know hartley was there.

the comm is captioned and links to his goggles, it’s a lot easier to program voice to text than it is to teach the brain how to hear again

and those are just little details in his characterization/writing that are, quite easy? to incorporate, i think.

[youngb0y]

earlier on my housemate said “jake how do u spell (mumbles)” i was like “what?” he was like “how do u spell (mumbles)” i was like

“a dick?”

“no, (mumbles)”

“....adjust?????”

“(mumbles)”

“can u spell it to me i can’t hear u”

“no because i dont know how to spell it”

[insvisiblestrings]

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