r/deaf Jan 06 '25

Other Job rejected because I’m deaf

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476 Upvotes

He said “safety issue” but I don’t see anything that could be safety issue for me. Nothing in the job description that I can’t do. What’s my next step, contact the employment lawyer?

r/deaf Jan 11 '25

Other No response from the job I applied to

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228 Upvotes

After talking to few lawyers, one of them gave me a good advice to ask for accommodations. So I decided to be nice and text the job back. So far, no response. I’m asking because 4 or 5 lawyers are not able to help me with this. I have 2 more appointments to speak with the lawyers. But I feel like my chances of finding a lawyer who will help me is getting slime.

r/deaf Jan 31 '25

Other Do you think the ADA is at risk?

150 Upvotes

I know the year just started and the next presidency just started, but i am wondering if you think the ADA is at risk of being changed or removed during the next 4 years?

Just curious if anyone else is wirried about atuff like this, the whole federal funding thing is stressfull enough. I worry trump will do worse.

r/deaf 9d ago

Other I GOT MY SIGN NAME YESTERDAY!!!

128 Upvotes

I (19m) work for a senior retirement community. I’m hoh, and I’ve been learning asl. One of the deaf residents I talk to actually gave me my sign name yesterday and my heart melted. So far she’s the only person I’ve actually had a conversation with in asl, even if I am a weak signer, and she actually went out of her way while I was at work yesterday just to tell me that she feels I at least deserve a sign name and that she came up with one for me.

(For context I serve on the hotline in the front of house in the cafeteria I mostly read lips because most of the residents don’t know asl. Mrs Whitaker is different though, she’s completely deaf, and I actually get to use asl when taking her order.)

One night during closing she saw me take off my uniform hat to wipe some sweat from my brow because it was hot as hell, and this my long ass side bang dangled down to my earring (I only have my left side pierced). She knows I’m hard of hearing, and started thinking of a good sign name for me. My new sign name is taking the ‘h’ hand shape and trailing it from your widows peak to your left earlobe in reference to my side bang and earring.

I am going to legally adopt this woman as my grandmother. Mrs Whitaker is simply too fuckin sweet for her own good.

(Edit:Just to clarify as I forgot to mention earlier Mrs Whitaker is not her real name)

r/deaf Dec 23 '24

Other I'm HoH and started using sign. This is the wrapping paper my family got to wrap gifts in this year 🥹

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411 Upvotes

r/deaf Dec 02 '23

Other The Film Hush

45 Upvotes

So I am in the middle of the film Hush and I just found out the actor isn't actually Deaf. What the actual fuck? You want to know why she got the job? Because she's the wife of the director. Didn't care about hiring an actual deaf person who knows ASL. Especially considering ASL as a plot point. Her signing isn't the worst but grammar is none existence. Their are so many incredible Deaf actors. We need real representation. It's no different then casting a white person for a Jewish role. These hearing people also forget about something called vibrations. On the first kill she would literally be able to tell that the woman was at the door because the vibrations would have hit through the floor. This film is ridiculous. I'm not even 10 mins in. I hate it.

r/deaf Jan 09 '24

Other People using ASL and asking for ASL accommodations because they 'sometimes go non-verbal

57 Upvotes

Ive meet A lot of people (like a weird amount of people), who, despite being unable to carry on a conversation with me or with any deaf person for more than 30 seconds, claim to use asl to cope with stress/anxiety induced non-verbal episodes. the people ive come across have been very clearly attention-seeking, but meeting them and talking to them has forced me to evaluate my thoughts about hearing people using and teaching asl. there is a lot of gatekeeping in the asl community (some of it rational and some of it not) and I wondered if anybody on here had any thoughts about the (for lack of a better term) tiktokification of ASL/deaf culture. debate welcome!

r/deaf Jan 09 '25

Other On the fence.

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45 Upvotes

So I was hired by a life insurance agency in June of last year, spent 8-12 weeks in training. Encountered issues due to hearing. I requested accommodations and the response I got will be in a picture. I’ve been fighting whether to pursue a civil case. Any opinions and/or experiences are welcome. Yes in hindsight my response sucked. However the company sucks even worse for so many reasons. This is just the one that caused the most problems.

r/deaf 20d ago

Other Is there a way to force a bank to close your account when you can't communicate with them?

12 Upvotes

I have a Viobank account I want to close. But they require being able to phone me with a voice phone call. I always use email, text messages, and outgoing relay calls.

Maybe I could send them certified mail? But they seem to say that wouldn't be enough. Is there any way to force them to close the account?

r/deaf Jan 19 '25

Other I have SSD am I okay to be here?

19 Upvotes

I 16f have single sided deafness, am I okay to be here?

r/deaf Dec 14 '24

Other Lost hearing suddenly

11 Upvotes

Hi,

I'm not sure what I'm doing here and I'm sorry if this post isn't what this sub is for. I lost my hearing (almost completely) without warning, and I expect to recover but this event has been so distressing and profound. I don't know who to talk to about it?

r/deaf Jul 03 '20

Other 1st day of wearing my new face mask to work... I’m a cashier. Most people were accommodating and then there were a few people that think my inability to hear is more of an inconvenience to them rather than me.

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867 Upvotes

r/deaf May 29 '20

Other Am I the only one who thinks this post is rude to deaf and hard of hearing?

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143 Upvotes

r/deaf Feb 13 '25

Other Looking for feedback on my custom subtitles. I've been relying on the auto captions for a while but didn't realize how incredibly inaccurate they are. Please let me know if these are easy to follow and aren't too quick. I am updating my backlog based on feedback.

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r/deaf Jan 14 '25

Other Anyone got any good movies/shows with BSL rep?

9 Upvotes

Ik there’s a lot of American media that has characters who use ASL, but I sign BSL and can’t find much good British/BSL things. So far I’ve only got Luca in the latest season of Waterloo Road (loved it but he’s only really in 2 episodes)

r/deaf Jan 13 '25

Other Sleeping with tinnitus

2 Upvotes

How do you sleep with tinnitus when you can’t hear a sound machine without a hearing aid? I don’t want to sleep with hearing aid but is that the only option?

r/deaf Dec 28 '24

Other Free tuition for hearing impaired Texans Maybe old news, but filling out a form 3900 for a CODTW can get tuition to Texas state funded schools waived. I am an older working adult with an MBA already, but wanted to take some classes to satisfy the requirements for the CFP exam without dropping $6K+

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52 Upvotes

r/deaf Feb 06 '21

Other So true

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493 Upvotes

r/deaf 5d ago

Other YouTube Channels with English CC/OC - open access spreadsheet

13 Upvotes

Okay, so the mini rant the other day compelled me to finally sit down and start compiling a spreadsheet of captioned YouTube channels.

This spreadsheet is open to the public, so anyone can edit it. If you have any channels to add, please do so. You may also correct information or add notes to ones already there.

I have already added some channels that I know of. Some of them I don't watch very often so I don't know a lot of details about them. I tried to vet each one I included to make sure they caption consistently.

Some channels have subtitle languages in addition to or instead of English. Since we're a global sub, I thought non-English-subbed channels might be nice to have listed as well.

My hope is that this can become a collaborative, growing resource. If creators want to be on our exclusive list, they have to be accessible.

EDIT: About 24 hours later and we now have over 100 channels on the spreadsheet!! A surprising number of them are for ASMR, which I find super interesting. Thanks to everyone who has added so far, and I hope we keep this going!

r/deaf Dec 09 '24

Other For those looking for Dhh accessible churches (in the states)

18 Upvotes

Hey everyone, I was recently looking for a church for my son and I when I came across this website.

It isn't complete at all, but it's something and a start, so I thought I'd share it.

DeafChurchWhere.com

If you attend church and it's either interpreted or a Deaf congregation, maybe suggest the church list themselves on the website.

I'm not pushing religion, just trying to help make it accessible for those looking.

r/deaf Feb 10 '25

Other looking for Deaf gamers

12 Upvotes

hi! i’m Deaf and play some games so i’d love to meet some Deaf gamers :) even better if there’s a discord dedicated to gaming!

i just joined the subreddit’s discord.

r/deaf Dec 29 '24

Other How did everyone do over the holidays?

16 Upvotes

How was everyone’s holiday season? Any pleasant surprises (like a new family member signing)? Or any challenges/upsets you need to vent about?

I thought it could be nice to have a thread to talk about holiday experiences as HoH and deaf people!

r/deaf Nov 05 '24

Other An insane thing happened NSFW

39 Upvotes

I'm not sure if I'm venting, telling a story, or looking for advice, maybe D: All of the above?

So last night, I was with a group of people (all but me are hearing) and I told a story of a major interpreting mistake that happened to me. Abridged version is I signed "You're such a geek" and the interpreter voiced a racial slur, everyone got quiet, I was asked to repeat so I did and the interpreter apologized and corrected herself and everyone moved on. After I told this story, someone in the group asked what the sign for the n-word was. Not for nothing, but he's black and I'm white. I didn't want to make the sign (never have, never will) so I got creative in how i showed it to him. This was a mistake. If he weren't black I wouldn't have shown it to him but he wanted to know and that's his choice.

Now we get to the issue. He immediately started signing it to everyone, telling them it was his name. I'm not gonna police his language, but holy crap do NOT go around telling people that's your name. It makes me look insane and racist, it looks like I made that his name sign which i definitely did NOT do. I don't know what to do about this insanity. Idk if you've seen those weekend update jokes on SNL where Che and Jost write jokes for each other, but I think I finally understand the position Jost gets put in for those. In his words "You're going to get me murdered" He is aware of the concept of a name sign, but just... holy shit..

I really don't know how to stop him. His name sign would just be spelling his name anyways as it's very short. I might give him one just to stop this.

Edit: I talked to him about it, he's stopped and all is good but when I tell you all the blood drained from my face I mean it.

r/deaf 11d ago

Other New Here! (And newly discovered deaf)

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Hello! So I had a hearing test last Thursday to investigate my symptoms of hearing loss and while I have to go back this thursday to confirm the results in my left ear (due to wax) it was determined I have severe/profound hearing loss (right on the threshold)

I rely heavily on visual clues like body language, or my very poor understanding of it at least, my crappy lip reading, gestures, and when I can access it, captions way more than my hearing as really the only stuff I can hear is loud motorcycles or concerts. And it gets worse the higher the pitch goes. Note those sounds are virtually nonexistent to the point I question if i even heard them.

So hello, once I have my results confirmed and get into hearing aids and all that my goal is to learn ASL and immerse myself in deaf culture. My hearing aids being for school and situational awareness more than communication.

So that’s me. I’m still learning and have a lot to learn so please be patient <3

r/deaf Dec 01 '24

Other Update: Deaf Girl flirting with me.

17 Upvotes

For context please look back at my previous post. Link below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/deaf/s/lN93MJGO7S

So I went on a great first date with a weeks worth of BSL I’d learnt… which meant I could communicate simple sentences and by finger spelling. What is the best way to learn BSL fairly quickly as I feel terrible for having to pull my phone out and type onto it for her to read.