This-Is-Audism

People commonly defend this practise with "But the audience isn't meant to understand!" or "It's inconsequential!", neither of which actually address a) their assumption that the [ideal Anglo] audience wouldn't understand, or, perhaps most crucially in the context of CCs, b) that this is a failure of accessibility. A hearing person who speaks that "foreign" language will know exactly what's being said. A deaf or HoH person – the people CCs are primarily intended for – who speaks or reads that language should therefore have the exact same opportunity to understand. It very much feels to me like an assumption that we deaf and HoH people couldn't possibly understand any language but English, so there's no point in getting those languages transcribed for us. I hope it goes without saying how profoundly audist that sentiment is.

There is also, I think, a profound misunderstanding or ignorance of Deaf culture at play. Which is to say, CCs in English-language media are written with not only the assumption that the audience will be native English speakers, but that all d/Deaf and HoH people speak English as their first language, so all other languages are as supposedly foreign to them as they are for hearing people. But sign languages are their own distinct language. BSL, ASL, ISL, AusLan, NZSL etc ≠ English (and are indeed different from one another), LIS ≠ Italian, JSL ≠ Japanese, and so on. So, if you follow the captioners' logic to its natural extreme, all non-signed dialogue is "foreign" to many d/Deaf and HoH people and should therefore be labelled [speaks foreign language] / [speaks English] / [speaks own language] / etc. – which is, obviously, a terrible idea that perfectly highlights all the biases implicit in closed captioning.

it's so exclusionary of d/Deaf people.

I feel like 7 hours a day on average is plenty. Like I will wear my processors all day at work but then not very much when I'm just at home or on the weekends. Like I just have them on when I actually need to hear stuff.

Also, it's not like it's hindering my progress with the implants. My speech discrimination is in the top 10% of cochlear implant users. So I feel like it's not really that necessary for me to be wearing my processors all day every day to get the benefit from them.

Also FYI, I am a grown adult (26) and it just seems a bit invasive to have my audiologist able to see my time "on air" (yes, that is the official term). Like quite frankly I don't really think it's any of their business.

many cops make no effort to use alternative communication with Deaf people even after we have identified ourselves as Deaf.

audism is also the fact that our signing is considered threatening and something that warrants murder. audism is the fact that our signing is labeled as gang signs and is used to justify murdering us. (and, for the record, actual gang signs also don't justify murder)

audism is the way Deaf people are accused of lying to "get out of things" when we identify ourselves as Deaf.... which is then used to deny us accommodations like interpreters or written communication.

this is not true.

the Deaf community embraces everyone with hearing loss who wants to join it. the only prerequisites to being culturally Deaf are any level of hearing loss and an effort to assimilate into Deaf culture.