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Despite the fact that I am not deaf, mute, or blind myself, one of the most common questions I receive is how to portray characters with these disabilities in fiction.

As such, I’ve compiled the resources I’ve accumulated (from real life deaf, mute, or blind people) into a handy masterlist.

Deaf Characters:

Deaf characters masterpost

Deaf dialogue thread

Dialogue with signing characters (also applies to mute characters.)

A deaf author’s advice on deaf characters

Dialogue between deaf characters

Mute Characters

Life as a Mute

My Silent Summer:  Life as a Mute

What It’s Like Being Mute

21 People Reveal What It’s Really Like To Be Mute

I am a 20 year old Mute, ask me anything at all!

Blind Characters:

The 33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About Blind Characters.

@referenceforwriters masterpost of resources for writing/playing blind characters.

The youtube channel of the wonderful Tommy Edison, a man blind from birth with great insight into the depiction of blind people and their lives.

An Absolute Write thread on the depiction of blind characters, with lots of different viewpoints and some great tips.

And finally, this short, handy masterpost of resources for writing blind characters.

Characters Who Are Blind in One Eye

4 Ways Life Looks Shockingly Different With One Eye

Learning to Live With One Eye

Adapting to the Loss of an Eye

Adapting to Eye Loss and Monocular Vision

Monocular Depth Perception

Deaf-Blind Characters

What Is It Like To Be Deafblind?

Going Deaf and Blind in a City of Noise and Lights

Deaf and Blind by 30

Sarita is Blind, Deaf, and Employed (video)

Born Deaf and Blind, This Eritrean American Graduated Harvard Law School (video)

A Day of a Deaf Blind Person

Lesser Known Things About Being Deafblind

How the Deaf-Blind Communicate

Early Interactions With Children Who Are Deaf-Blind

Raising a DeafBlind Baby

If you have any more resources to add, let me know!  I’ll be adding to this post as I find more resources.

Part I: For Richer, For Poorer

He looks her in the face for a moment. "You're weird." He's not the first to tell her that. But this time there's no sneering insecurity or bored cruelty. He's merely noting it aloud, his eyes curious. They're very bright under his curtain of hair, though she can't look too closely. "And you're a jerk." She extends her hand to him. "Mollie Hannigan." He takes it without taking his eyes off her. "Haymitch Abernathy."

AU Haymitch's family and girlfriend are spared. This changes everything and nothing.

ooooh this is really interesting I like the idea of them both meeting as they’re recovering from these incidents, I think that’s really interesting potential for how their relationship could blossom AND both of them being so connected to swimming gives them a commonality outside their trauma which I love!! (yes ik swimming is not the same as diving. but you get me). I also love that it’s distance swimming, his personality type seems to mesh so well with the mentality required for that.