The HOH-Society

The HOH-Society ("HOH" short for "Hard of Hearing") is a blog reaching out to people of all ages living with hearing differences. This ranges from deafness, to hard of hearing, to auditory processing disorder. It's difficult living a society where you feel straddled between the hearing and non-hearing world.

[bbyinblu]

reblog if you think sign language should be taught as a language in schools.

[thehoh-society]

Don't romanticize it.

When a person says that they'd just love to have my experience I just want to say, "Really? You want the frequent headaches, the ringing sound in your head that's not really there but you're beyond exhausted like all the time that at this point being tired is just a continuous state of being for you, and no amount of sleep can alleviate your constant dread of social situations and being in noisy places and second guessing yourself ALL THE TIME even when you know there's no reason to but its just that being deaf is like having a phantom sense and you're always wondering if there's a sound there or if something's happening here and you're not hearing it but no worries because someone will be there to make you feel like a total piece shit for not hearing them speaking to you?"

Let me know how that goes as you realize it's not a simple matter of plugging up your ears.

😒😒😒

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"Deaf and dumb."

No.

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Not trusting that your peers have your best interests in mind when it comes to selecting an activity that won't cause you stress and anxiety because of your hearing, while dealing with the backlash as you are accused of not having enough faith in others, when, ironically, you've had to explain to those same people many times why you don't answer the phone or why you're over the loud, crowded bar scene or why that guy's looking at you funny because of your accent.

And then they proceed to tell you that it's all in your head.

I'm not fucking dealing with this in 2018. Get out of my face with my shit.

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Is this my trauma?

I was up at 3 in the morning after a heavy conversation with my best, pouring forth my unfiltered thoughts and gutting my heart on paper the stream of consciousness of a deaf, black male who has to balance those two predominant spheres (along with being queer) while battling the never ending introspective thoughts that constantly make me question my self worth and whether or not my friends are REALLY my friends, or just people who pity me and are being polite while I misread all of their cues and tones, all the while addressing the fact that I have avoided confronting the real issue that my disability is an obstacle when it comes to building genuine (ergo, romantic) relationships, while people won't actually SAY it....we all know it's there, and it's great that I'm like this "AMAZINGWONDERFULGENUINETALENTEDFUNNY" guy, but I'm still "too deaf," "too black," "too intimidating." And internalizing THIS message, this stream of consciousness, in a way that people cannot look at me and go, "Nah, you're being a #paranoidminority" or "you're #attentionseeking and #playingthevictim" because we are often taught that our experiences are invalid. That it's all in our heads. But it's me holding up a portrait of myself that contains fragments belonging to different places while not fully belonging anywhere.

I'm not asking for pity or your opinion. There isn't a right or wrong. It's just me. My experiences as the results of biology and fucked up circumstances and being a clusterfuck of star stuff.

Yeah that's my headspace.

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Hey :) I’m starting to learn ASL and I was wondering, Does it matter which hand you use for one-handed signs? And for two-handed signs, does it matter which hand does which action?

I happen to be somewhat ambidextrous. My right hand is my dominant hand for writing and drawing but for some reason I have always Signed with my left hand and wear a watch on my right. I don't think it really matters unless there is a specific sign that has to be done with a certain hand (which in that case may be cultural). However, saying that I feel if you ever do public speaking or presentations the majority of the audience may be somewhat thrown off. People have always inquired upon why I'm left handed. I don't have an answer. :/

[ithelpstodream]

[cookie-sheet-toboggan]

so is Victory

[ashermajestywishes]

LOVE TRIANGLE

[bsparrow]

Don’t forget Truth (Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind)

[justrollinon]

This must be why the Trump administration hates them all 

[acciowine]

The Four Horsewomen of the Trumpocalypse.

[krustybunny-deactivated20221129]

I’ve never reblogged anything so quick

[spectrometon]

The Ultimate Squad, comin’ to wreck your shit and save the world

[quentineliot]

Rb for that art doe

[identicaltwinhalfbrother]

Dignity here to join the girl posse.

[brainwad]

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE

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I figured I'd post a selfie since nobody on here knows what I look like now. The two in the back are my muses. ❤❤❤

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Constantly asking yourself if you're too guarded. Too deaf. Too independent. Or all of the above.

- dating life

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"Listen, dude, I can't fucking hear you and I don't really fucking care at the moment."

-sensory overload

***that feeling of wanting to slaughter every breathing person in range***

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Pretend you've got a four year old constantly asking you to stop and look at something they've got in their hand. You know they don't mean any harm, but after a while it gets annoying and tiresome to have to continually stop and turn around and figure out what the child wants. That is how I feel when hearing people talk to me, and around me, constantly, without making sure they have my attention first.

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It disgusts me how many adults in my life have tried to raise me as a hearing person. It's their secret way of saying, "No. We don't accept this." And to think how I'm not the only one. It happens to all of us, everyone, in different ways. And not just deaf and hard of hearing people.

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When you keep saying "huh?" or "what?" and keep leaning in, but they still don't understand how to observe and understand what's going on...

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Life is either constantly looking around to pretend that you are hearing things like everybody else or isolating yourself to not give a damn. There is no middle ground.

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I'm not sure if I think any of us are obligated to apologize to some hearing people for making them feel uncomfortable for five seconds when we are uncomfortable in their world for a lifetime.

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Nobody ever takes you seriously. They're all too blown away by the fact that you can speak and breathe, and do things like other people. It's like you're some other creature pretending to be human. They don't see you for who you really are, and then wonder why we either overcompensate or retreat and isolate ourselves.