#auditory processing disorder
• *someone says something* “what?” *repeats themselves* “sorry?” *repeats themselves again* “pardon?”
•"hey, y'see the red thing at the top of the shelf, will you get it?“ “Sorry, what?” “On the sh-” “oh yeah sure, I’ll get it.”
•*doesn’t hear teacher because someone’s pen is making a scratchy sound at the back of the room*
•*replays video 10 ten times to figure out what they’re saying*
•teachers asking, “why do you always stop writing in the middle of a sentence, just write down whatever I’m saying,” followed by the response, “I’m just processing it,” rebuked by, “we’ll stop processing it and just write.”
•*gets really focused on staring out the window and goes through four songs without hearing a single on*
someone is whispering to their friends in the library, you don’t even know who this person is but you know their major, what state they grew up in, and their hobbies during high school. you just wanted to find a quiet spot to do your chemistry homework.
wanting to chime in on other people’s conversations all the time, but don’t, because you’re not suppose to be “listening” to them.
being the only person in the house that can hear that awful buzzing sound certain electronics make
hiding in your room because everything is too loud.
motorcycles were invented by satan
being told that you have dog-like hearing by friends and family
being yelled at for “not listening” by friends and family.
God. God. God. God.
This entire post is so fucking relatable it hurts
Subtitles and Closed Captions that say things like “[SPEAKS GERMAN]” or “[SPEAKS NATIVE LANGUAGE]” are an accessibility failure and studios should do better.
I don’t care if the characters wouldn’t understand - a viewer who knows German will understand a German character.
Honestly, yeah. The only time captions should be doing this is if it’s a non-specific language (e.g., “alien language”) or a language that is not directly transcribable due to having no written form (e.g., Harsusi, pretty much any sign language, etc.).
You might be able to get away with this when using some fantasy languages too, especially if those languages really don’t have a set vocabulary or grammar (they’re just sounds being used for the sake of the story.) But if it’s a fantasy language that does have vocabulary and grammar, like Klingon or Sindarin, you really ought to be transcribing those word-for-word too.
Hi, caption writer here. And I want you to understand that IT IS NOT OUR FAULT. This is not a choice that WE make. This is not something that we are even allowed to change.
First of all, the entire caption industry is contractors, just like Uber. And each company has a specific way they want those caption to be written. One of the easiest ways to tell which company had the contract for an episode is to see what punctuation is used for sound effects and speaker tags, which should clue you in that we are judged even on something as stupid as when exactly an ellipsis is allowed.
We are not allowed to transcribe foreign audio, even if we do know it. Because of the rushed timetable we are expected to keep, it’s not like we’d have time to look up words even if we were allowed to. Heck, we aren’t even allowed to *label* the language unless we are absolutely positive and sure 100%. And that file is ours. We are the only ones who see it, because otherwise they’d actually have to pay wages to real employees.
And then we get graded. Not even by actual employees, just by other trusted contractors. If our ratings drop below the threshold, our account is closed and that’s it. Done. Try another company. And here’s the thing.
Captioning is work done by people who can’t get anything else. I’m disabled, I have the stamina to work 10 hours a week, and no one will hire me for that short a time at a real job. I’m not artistic and I can’t write my own words, which left me with transcription and captions. Transcription make 10 cents per minute of audio. Captions make 50 cents per minute of audio.
I use captions as often as I can, I love them. And it breaks my heart every time I see a set where someone decided to get through it as fast as possible and cut every corner they could get away with. But it’s the industry that is broken. The industry that set itself up to move things as fast as possible, take advantage of the community it was serving TWICE, and resist any change that did not directly relate to their profit margin.
Fuck capitalism, not captioners. Fuck America-centered English captions, not the ones who write them. Fuck tightwad companies treating subs as an afterthought and picking only the company with the lowest rates, but that just cycles back around to Fuck Capitalism.
I embroidered this piece for the British Textile Biennial crowd-sourced exhibition about migration and belonging. I called it “Back to the Shire”, a Tolkien reference, because I went on a long quest over 25 years and travelled many places before returning to my home town in Lancashire. The rainbow infinity loop represents a journey, as well as neurodiversity, and the rainbow badge represents gender and sexual diversity. These are included to show how the outer journey relates to the search for safety and belonging. I sewed it on Mum’s old table cloth using a bit of Nanna’s wedding dress, and buttons and threads from my great aunt. These, along with the cup of tea, represent home!
Update:Here’s the finished work, with a page for everyone who contributed!
Having a conversation when you have Adhd and Auditory Processing issues be like:
Not trusting that your peers have your best interests in mind when it comes to selecting an activity that won’t cause you stress and anxiety because of your hearing, while dealing with the backlash as you are accused of not having enough faith in others, when, ironically, you’ve had to explain to those same people many times why you don’t answer the phone or why you’re over the loud, crowded bar scene or why that guy’s looking at you funny because of your accent.
And then they proceed to tell you that it’s all in your head.
I’m not fucking dealing with this in 2018. Get out of my face with my shit.
“Listen, dude, I can’t fucking hear you and I don’t really fucking care at the moment.”
-sensory overload
***that feeling of wanting to slaughter every breathing person in range***
Life is either constantly looking around to pretend that you are hearing things like everybody else or isolating yourself to not give a damn. There is no middle ground.
I’m not sure if I think any of us are obligated to apologize to some hearing people for making them feel uncomfortable for five seconds when we are uncomfortable in their world for a lifetime.
It’s funny how everybody wants to talk about mental illness and depression, but hardly anybody is willing to engage in a conversation upon which we discuss how deafness and/or central auditory processing disorder are oftentimes a huge contributor to anxiety and depression on so many levels. Not only are you constantly navigating an isolating world where you cannot always rely on your ears or your brain to process sound, but you have to understand how other people communicate, worry about accommodations and accessibility, strain yourself physically and mentally in order to mainstream, deal with numerous embarrassing situations that require a thicker skin than most, combat audism in your community, oftentimes family, friends, and coworkers, miss out on many activities and conversations, and struggle every day with accepting your limitations. There millions of us all over the world. Why are we not talking about this?
Reblog if you have ever been scolded as a child (and as an adult) for not realizing that someone was talking to you.
NEW VIDEO!!! “Dear Hearing People” [CC]
A comical spin on some comments I’ve received and some experiences I’ve had with different hearing people over the years. This is all for laughs. I’m well aware not all hearing people say ignorant things to D/deaf and Hard of Hearing people and people with APD.
Enjoy.
Or, you know…don’t. :P
• *someone says something* “what?” *repeats themselves* “sorry?” *repeats themselves again* “pardon?”
•"hey, y'see the red thing at the top of the shelf, will you get it?“ “Sorry, what?” “On the sh-” “oh yeah sure, I’ll get it.”
•*doesn’t hear teacher because someone’s pen is making a scratchy sound at the back of the room*
•*replays video 10 ten times to figure out what they’re saying*
•teachers asking, “why do you always stop writing in the middle of a sentence, just write down whatever I’m saying,” followed by the response, “I’m just processing it,” rebuked by, “we’ll stop processing it and just write.”
•*gets really focused on staring out the window and goes through four songs without hearing a single on*
someone is whispering to their friends in the library, you don’t even know who this person is but you know their major, what state they grew up in, and their hobbies during high school. you just wanted to find a quiet spot to do your chemistry homework.
wanting to chime in on other people’s conversations all the time, but don’t, because you’re not suppose to be “listening” to them.
being the only person in the house that can hear that awful buzzing sound certain electronics make
hiding in your room because everything is too loud.
motorcycles were invented by satan
being told that you have dog-like hearing by friends and family
being yelled at for “not listening” by friends and family.
God. God. God. God.
This entire post is so fucking relatable it hurts
“You just need to learn to tune it out.”
Forgetting how to think because ambient noise is drowning out your internal monologue.
“No, I don’t need the volume up, I’d just really like to put on subtitles. No, I don’t need to move closer, I just…”
Leaving the room whenever someone starts talking on the phone.
Pausing your video whenever someone starts talking but trying really really hard not to seem passive aggressive about it.
Struggling to explain why this one sound is the most horrible thing in the world while other very similar sounds are fine.
you’re trying to listen to what some very important person is trying to say, but you can only focus on the conversations of the ppl around you
sitting in a restaurant and thinking the people sitting next to you are being SO loud because you can hear everything they’re saying, but when you mention it you get weird looks so obviously you’re just overreacting.
not being able to handle the little keyboard sounds as your mom types a text from across the room, but when you ask your mom (who is a quadruple texter) to put her phone on silent you get a murderous look, like you’ve asked her to kill her cat.
turning on ambient noises and trying to relax, only to end up turning it off because it’s not actually helping you fall asleep.
“the speakers are making this high pitched noise”
“what the hell are you talking about?”
“THE SPEAKERS ARE PRACTICALLY SCREAMING HOW DO YOU NOT HEAR THAT??”
“Just ignore it, and focus on the show.”
you have auditory processing disorder
that is LITERALLY what the man said.
me: *saying “WHAT?” seven times to someone giving me coherent face-to-face verbal directions*
also me: *hears a faint noise and randomly lifts head like a deer* hey did u guys hear that??? wtf how could you not hear it-
This is what every song sounds like if you have auditory processing issues
Every time I find a YouTube channel that uses closed captions I feel fucking blessed
Same!! It’s even better when there isn’t additional (unnecessary, distracting) commentary in the captions.
One thing I wish people knew about auditory processing disorder was that when I ask you to repeat something, I need to you repeat the whole thing.
If I hear “I ???? ????? my keys”
And ask “what?”
So many people just respond with “my KEYS!”
And I have to guess if they said “I need you to grab my keys” or “I already have my keys” or something else, or ask “what about them?” Which frequently annoys people and makes the conversation longer and more complicated than it needs to be.
PLEASE just repeat the whole sentence it saves everyone so much awkwardness and confusion
What I do is I say the part I heard.
If I hear “I ???? ????? my keys.”, I don’t say “What?” I say, “I heard something about keys.”
And then the person naturally repeats the part NOT about the keys. It really does work.
you have auditory processing disorder
that is LITERALLY what the man said.
Yeah I may have auditory processing issues a lot and only catch 20% of the lyrics to a new song but I can also somehow remember the exact tone and way in which quotes were said and can spout off entire scenes of dialogue from shows or random youtube videos and I don’t understand that discrepancy
