#deaf positivity

[thedeafzoologist]

Things I love about being Deaf

The community! I've met so many lovely people in the Deaf community, and I can't express how important it was for me to meet other deaf individuals

The language. I am learning BSL, and it is something that I would reccomend to anyone, not just deaf people. Have you ever needed to communicate across a noisy room? It's so helpful and it blows my mind that sign language isn't usually taught in schools

My hearing aids. I am lucky enough to live in a country where hearing aids are free, and I know that a lot of people do not have access to them like I do. That said, it warms my heart to see people with hearing aid accessories, brightly coloured aids, etc. Mine are bright blue, and I love showing them off!

The ability to mute people. Noisy environment? People being unkind? Switch the hearing aids off and BAM! No sound, no problem.

I am now legally required to say DEAFinitely instead of definitely for the rest of my life.

#deaf #deafawareness #deaf awareness #deafpride #deaf pride #BSL #british sign language #hearing aids #deaf positivity

[a-common-wybie]

i appreciate you

people with Deaf accent

people with speech impediments

people who are semi speaking

people who are non speaking

people who are unable to be understood

people who use AAC

people who need help to speak

people who are selectively mute

people who need surgeries for speech

people who use signed language

people who communicate through sounds

people with electrolarynx

disabled people with speech problems or accents as a result of their disability

<3

#actually disabled #disability #wybie speaks #deaf #hoh #disability positivity #positivity #autism #disability rights #disabled community

[positivelyqueer]

Want deaf and HoH people to know you’re amazing and I hope you have great days surrounded by good people doing something you enjoy <3

#Positivity #disabled #deaf #HoH

[breadandblankets]

I took asl classes at community college and my instructor was, himself, Deaf. one of the best parts of the class was my professor had such good body language that I was able to understand him with limited English and ASL input

anyway Cass making Deaf friends or going to Deaf community events not cause she understands the language but because people are exaggerating the they move in such a deliberate way it feels like they're speaking to her, idk I think Cass would like Deaf culture

#batfam #cassandra cain #bread talk #this is not hypocrisy with my last take btw #i want alternatives for cass to interact with asl/D(d)eaf culture that don't erase cass's disabilities #if you wanna disagree with me and fully keep cass and asl separate more power to you #i just want to think thru implications that allow cass to interact positively with Deaf/HH/mute people without getting into fandom ablism

[sillydeafwitch]

btw happy disability pride month.

Shout to all my fellow deaf Cochlear implant users whether your bilateral like me or use cochlear implant on one side. And also shoutout to people who use other hearing devices. And also also shout out to deaf people who don’t use any hearing devices.

And shoutout to all the other people with disabilities, it may not always be easy but we‘re still here.

#disability #deaf #disability pride month #cochlear implant #positivity #bilateral #hard of hearing

[autism-polls]

Poll idea submitted anonymously on April 2, 2024

#actually disabled #autistic #autism poll #autism acceptance month #autism awareness #autism acceptance #autism positivity #actually autistic #autism spectrum disorder #autism #sensory #sensory disability #blindness #deafness #tumblr polls #poll #submission #anonymous

[genderqueerdykes]

one of the only good things about being trans and deaf is that i can’t hear the people who misgender me and the only people who i speak to that know sign respect my pronouns and gender

FLEX ON THE HATERS your swag is immeasurable!!!

#asks #answers #positive #deaf #trans

[multiplicity-positivity]

Shoutout to systems who are deaf or hard of hearing (hoh)!

Systems of all sorts should be accepted and uplifted in the plural community, including and especially those who are deaf and hard of hearing (HOH)! Here’s to the deaf and HOH systems!

To those whose system formed entirely or in some part due to their hearing loss!

To those who grew up deaf and whose first language was sign language!

To those who regularly use hearing aids in order to listen to their surroundings!

To those who are struggling with gradually losing their hearing over time!

To HOH systems with individual headmates who can hear better or worse than the rest of the system!

To those whose hearing loss has made it difficult for them to do many of the things they want to in life!

To those who are stressed, confused, frustrated, or anxious about their hearing loss!

To those whose hearing loss could have been avoidable, but were unable to afford the care necessary to prevent it!

To those who practice or know multiple sign languages!

To those who need and ask for accommodations in order to live their best lives!

To those with hearing loss who need others to speak loudly, clearly, and with enunciation in order to follow conversations!

To those who rely on subtitles in order to view movies, shows, videos, and streams!

To those who are disability and hearing loss advocates in their communities!

To those who embrace and celebrate their deafness!

To those who love being HOH and wouldn’t change the way they function for anything!

We want to remind you that you are valued and cherished members of the plural community just the way you are! It is our goal to support and center deaf and HOH system voices in our spaces any way we can. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help make our blog more safe and accessible for your system!

Know that you don’t have to be abled or hearing in order to be loved and uplifted by those around you. We care about you and we’re wishing the very best for you! We’re rooting for you in all that you do, and we hope you have an amazing day!

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#multiplicity #pluralgang #plurality #actuallyplural #system positivity #plural positivity #plural pride #system pride #hoh #hard of hearing #hearing loss #deaf

[muzzlemouths]

sorry for rage posting i have a lot of feelings today

#muzz mumbles #the decision is just so positively tone deaf #something something you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become buzzfeed #it was a good run lads. shame it had to end this way

[isan0rt]

Good Lord. Okay. Listen. We all agree that pre-timeskip Houses Dedue is not doing so great in the mental health department. We all agree on that. My guy needs therapy about his survivor's guilt and his PTSD and we're all agreed his self deprecation is Intense but like.

Listen. You can't…address that without also acknowledging he's like that because people have been Fucking Racist To Him Constantly for the Last Four Years of his Goddamn Life. And not like, just ‘microaggressions at the workplace’ racist, though also that too. Like, ‘somebody might fucking murder him’ kind of racist. He's not just insecure or whatever. This man is trying not to get hate-crimed.

It's rational, actually, for Dedue to assume that Any Given Faerghan is gonna be racist to him, because before going to Garreg Mach every given Faerghan except Dimitri HAS BEEN super mega turbo racist to him everywhere he goddamn goes. There's no reason for him to believe his classmates are gonna be different. Like, he doesn't know Mercedes is from the Empire! He has no reason to believe Chivalrous Knight Fanboy Ashe doesn't hate Duscur and everyone from there for regicide. Annette is the only one with a pass and only because Dedue respected Gustave until he went out for cigarettes and never came back, abandoning not only Dimitri but also Dedue in the process. The safest thing is to assume people are gonna come at him hot and preemptively deescalate the situation.

Like, he suffers from the “you can get C and B supports after the time skip” weirdness for sure, but even in his C supports, even if you get them before the skip, he is fully willing to tell Felix where to stick his fucking grapes, and he's willing to tell Ingrid she can be as big of a bitch about it as she wants but he's still going to do his job on the battlefield even if that means keeping her alive. He's consistently assertive of his boundaries with Dimitri in all their supports, including when Dimitri wishes that he did not have a particular boundary (using Dimitri's name and calling each other friends, things it's actually physically not safe for pre timeskip Dedue to do).

Because he is confident Dimitri isn't gonna fucking lose his mind at Dedue about it. He's also confident Felix, Ingrid, and Sylvain won't do a hate crime at him if he's acting in capacity of Dimitri's Vassal because of their fundamental loyalty to Dimitri, so he can safely tell them to shove it also. He tells Gustave he's a disappointment to Gustave’s face in their support!! Dedue isn't just a shrinking violet or whatever, he's just judicious about what shit he's gonna start, and how likely it is that talking shit is gonna get him hit.

(Also, yes he's a quiet guy... But also he's interacting with all these people in his second language, which he has no formal training in and which he learned from Dimitri. He really has to think about what he's going to say before he says anything because there is very little margin for error for him to misspeak without consequences and he knows it.)

Honestly unpopular opinion because like while I'm under no illusions that they did clearly fake out killing him for reasons other than his personal growth, I actually think it was in Dedue's personal best interest that he spent the timeskip in Duscur. This man hates Faerghus, he says that to Dimitri in their supports, but he's been stuck with them and having to just put up with it because he had nowhere else to go (even aside from the fact that Dimitri is literally the only living person in the world who loves him and he's terrified of losing that).

He's very clearly much more self-actualized when he returns, and in a much more relaxed and self-assured emotional place after the timeskip. Probably because he wasn't the one and only Highly Visible Do A Racism Here target and instead was with his own community, where he could actually unpack all that shit safely. Dedue needed that time outside the Racist Aggression Bubble of Faerghus to deal with his survivor's guilt properly.

You really can't address Dedue's self-image issues without also digging into the way dealing with constant racism reinforces those issues. You super cannot. Race and racism and how he deals with it is critical to the character. Is it always handled gracefully by the narrative?? No, absolutely it's not, but it is in fact in the narrative and you HAVE to engage with it if you're going to engage with Why Dedue is Like That.

#Dedue Molinaro #fe3h #disclaimer that I'm a white lady and I'm not trying to get out of my lane here but like. #I keep seeing fic that wants to address Dedue becoming more self-actualized but which. Absolutely refuses to touch the topic of race #like. hey maybe his experience with race and racism is fundamental to Why he is the way he is #Dedue is complex it's not as simple as he just has poor self-esteem or whatever #also tbh one of those was just so tone-deaf like there was one line that was i guess supposed to be positive but i was like #good lord author you are this close to actively calling him a slur without any awareness of it at all #actually tbh the tone deafness seems to be a recurring problem in fic featuring Dedue let me not lie #anyway. #racism

[kissitbttr]

the palenstine protests are actually going too far. i’m with the free palenstine movement, but people are just using this as an excuse to disrupt and ruin activities. people can’t even drink in a starbucks without people throwing bricks at them

i really do want to agree with ur statement here but comparing to what the Palestinians have to endure for the last 78 years and months, the amount of innocent people who had died, homes being destroyed, zero access to healthcare, food and shelters? im sure those people who sits pretty with starbucks drinks in their hands can handle having a couple of bricks being thrown at them. it’s not like their lives are being threatened by terrorists

#this may sound tone deaf but its hard to feel bad for ppl who refuses to boycott the pro israel brands #and i am not condoning violence by any means but it’s hard to stay positive during this time #irdc wht they have to say tbh #anon #answered

[a-common-wybie]

deaf people are so alienated, even if you were not raised in Deaf culture the moment people see a listening device they seem to run

#actually deaf #disability positivity #deaf #disability #cripplepunk #deafawareness #deafculture #deafpride #hoh #hard of hearing

[owlyflufff]

bokuaka being horrendous at flirting so they say the sweetest, most supportive and most motivating words to each other every time unintentionally instead

#bokuto is bad at flirting because he opts to say more positive and motivating words #while akaashi is bad at it because it becomes a long winding poetic ramble instead that can fit a soap opera #so their interactions consist of genuinely the sweetest weirdest and sappiest words #that not even they themselves notice and it's tearing their teammates apart over how oblivious bokuaka are too each other #they're all just vague gesturing to the air wondering if bokuaka are deaf considering how weirdly sappy they are on a normal basis #bokuaka #bokuaka fluff #bokuto #akaashi #bokuto koutarou #akaashi keiji #hq #haikyu #haikyuu #haikyu!! #haikyuu!! #hq!!

[lovesick-level-up]

Disability Pride Month Challenge Day 2

day 2: character(s) that are vision impared or hard of hearing (blind, deaf, etc)

the characters we picked for this are: rui kamishiro ((headcanon) hard of hearing), qiqi ((headcanon) blind) + hizashi yamada ((implied) deaf)

flag credits: hearing aid user flag (could not find a specific deaf/hoh flag), vision problem flag

feel free to use with credit as long as you aren't on our dni, but don't claim as your own! like/reblog if you saver or enjoy!

#disability pride month #disability pride #disability positivity #rui kamishiro #qiqi genshin #hizashi yamada #present mic #hard of hearing #deaf #blind #icons #icon edit #edit #fandom edit #edit blog #[our edits] #[andromeda🌸💫🌈]

[hotcat37]

hi, i’ve just finished reading deaf!jere au and i love it! it’s my favourite fic of them. 9th part of dreams taste like you, morning smells like you ended with a lil bit of a cliffhanger. i’d wanted to ask when will there be 10th part so we can know that lil sunshine is alright. lots of love🥰🥰🥰

AHH THX SM ANON!! I'm glad you've been enjoying the AU :D I'm hoping to get chapter 10 out before the end of the month, it's been put on hold at the moment because I've been trying to finish up another fic haha. But not to worry, next chapter will definitely be nice for Jere 👀🔥

#Deaf! Jere #Käärijä #all this positivity makes me so happy :"3 #Hotcat ask

[jugheadthelesbian]

dude i need a fantastic gf who learns asl

#lesbian pride #lesbian #wlw positivity #wlw post #wlw blog #wlw yearning #actually hoh #hard of hearing #deaf community