It's a deaf life

Everyone is wearing masks and that makes life harder when you rely on lip-reading to help you out!

Even if someone has hearing aids or cochlear implants, that does not, in any way, shape or form mean they’re obligated to wear them all the time.

If you’re going to reblog something that says “sound on omfg” or “volume up” or “listen to this!!!!” please know that without transcription you’re alienating D/deaf people, hard of hearing folks, anyone with auditory processing issues, and a whole host of other people.

I know it’s not intentional. I know it’s not super fun to write out the transcriptions. I get that.

All I’m asking is if you have the ability and the energy to do so, please take a minute to type out what’s said in the video. Doesn’t have to look beautiful. What song is playing, who says what, what sound effects happen. That’s all.

Fuck people who do this. Seriously.

Quit saying the “r” word.

Quit saying “hearing impaired”. Use “Deaf” or “Hard of Hearing”.

Quit calling people with disabilities “inspirational”.

Quit assuming people with disabilities can’t do anything.

Caption your videos.

Start educating yourself about different disabilities.

If I have to repeat to my parents that their excuse for always yelling at me is because I can’t hear despite me literally being right next to them during conversation one more time is NOT OK I might lose it.

Took all my energy to not be a grump volunteering this morning because I got screamed at pretty badly for not hearing/following directions regarding getting ice off the car this morning… and I was driving. Driving while angry is NOT something anyone should doing but it’s so hard to remain calm after years of not being able to properly communicate with my parents.

STOP YELLING AT YOUR KIDS IT DOESN’T HELP DEAF OR NOT!

So I went to watch Mark’s newest Try Not to Laugh video, since I needed a laugh after the day I’ve had, and guess what happened the second it loaded.

Guess why I have captions on Mark’s videos? Because there’s a 90% chance that I can’t properly process what he’s saying, but I want to enjoy the video anyway.

Doing this makes that impossible.

So, whoever put the captions on this video, and whoever puts captions on videos, this is not acceptable. I can’t enjoy this video because my brain is physically incapable of processing the sounds coherently on a reliable basis and you couldn’t find it in yourself to caption this accurately.

Hopefully, in a few days, these captions will have been fixed and I can actually watch the video. That tends not to happen, though, so I don’t have high hopes. And this happens on a lot of Mark’s videos; people thinking they’re being funny by doing the captions like this.

Even though it makes it impossible for me, and other people like me who rely on captions, to enjoy the video.

Which, really, doesn’t make you funny. It just makes you mean.

It is at the point where I never turn on captions because of shit like this.

If anyone is unaware, I am 30-40% deaf in both ears. I almost always misinterpret what people are saying because of this.

I need captions. But because people like to do shit like this I have to turn my volume up.

I know, I know : “what a tragedy.”

But in the long run, a constantly higher volume is damaging to my already terrible hearing. And it’s not restricted to just me.

High volume on anything is hurtful to everyone.

Is it so hard for them to set up email for patients? You know. As an alternative. 😒