People all around the world worked together to make the videos accessible for EVERYONE. Not just for Deaf & Hard of Hearing people, but also people with sensory processing disorders, and people who’s language is not the same as the video.
Most the time a video is ONLY captioned because of Community Captions.
With the removal of this feature, billions of videos will not be accessible for ALL people.
Sign the petition to tell @YouTube not to remove Community Captions.
These Asks have probably been there for a while I really haven’t used social media a whole lot over the last 2 years. I’ve started to get better, but I still haven’t spent a lot of time on my @/13mtm80 socials (which includes my personal Facebook and Instagram; and my public Twitter, Tumblr, and YouTube).
So, where have I been? Almost 3 years ago I suddenly stopped captioning dwsa/dwsa cast videos when I started to have a persistent migraine that refused to leave or lessen. The migraine then decided to make it difficult for my brain to send messages to my right side. Making it so I no longer had use of my dominate right hand (I couldn’t open/close my hand or hold anything, and I had no grip). Lot’s of examinations later: Atypical Chronic Migraine. Now I take medicine to lessen the migraine.
With the migraine lessened from a 10 on the 1-10 pain scale to an 8 with medication, my hand and the rest had almost returned to somewhat normal over several months.
When I can type again, I started a transcription course. I was doing that for about 4 months when my migraine decided it was going to be bad again and not work with my medicine. And my right hand got non-functional again. Some more trial and error, found a new medicine that lessens my migraine. Right when I was supposed to start physical therapy on my hand Covid happened. Therapy never happened but my hand is mostly useful for everyday use, but fine-motor skill tasks are still challenging. Like typing.
My typing ability is why I haven’t gone back to my course, and why I’m not captioning anymore. My right hand is able to type on computer keyboard, it took time to get there, but I can. The problem is, is that my right hand is delayed at the typing speed my right hand is used to typing at. This causes words to be typed rearranged. For example: SPRING AWAKENING, typed on the computer comes out as Srping Awaekening.
Despite this typing issue, 8 months ago I did caption the dwsa reunion interview at Gallaudet. It took me a WHOLE lot longer than it used too, but I did get it done. But 6 months ago when when Sandra did an interview alone at Gallaudet I had been stressed from stuff in my family and my head briefly got bad again (no worse hand issues, just migraine) for about a month. But at this point I still haven’t captioned it. My right hand is still delayed.
For 2021, I’ve started new ventures. I’ve been focusing on my art. My art was something that I worked on in days I couldn’t leave my darkened bedroom. My art style changes depending on my my head or hand let’s me do, whether it’s: painting, drawing, or photography. At some point soon I want to sell some of it.
This is not self promotion follow me if you want (I know someone will ask): @/13mtm80_Designs on all the social media platforms that I already have (Facebook, Twitter Instagram, Tumblr).
Also in 2021, I did have Covid. But not when you asked (that was migraine sickness). I had Covid about a month ago. Caught it from someone in my house, all three of us had mild symptoms. It lasted the average mild length of 2 weeks. I’m fine now though.
So, yes I’m still apart of the dwsa fandom and I’m going to try and reacquaint myself back into my 13mtm80 accounts. All the apps are still on my phone. It’s just recently when I’ve been on them I was on my other account.
I’ll try to be more involved on social media, though I don’t know if I will be able to do any more captioning.
These Asks have probably been there for a while I really haven’t used social media a whole lot over the last 2 years. I’ve started to get better, but I still haven’t spent a lot of time on my @/13mtm80 socials (which includes my personal Facebook and Instagram; and my public Twitter, Tumblr, and YouTube).
So, where have I been? Almost 3 years ago I suddenly stopped captioning dwsa/dwsa cast videos when I started to have a persistent migraine that refused to leave or lessen. The migraine then decided to make it difficult for my brain to send messages to my right side. Making it so I no longer had use of my dominate right hand (I couldn’t open/close my hand or hold anything, and I had no grip). Lot’s of examinations later: Atypical Chronic Migraine. Now I take medicine to lessen the migraine.
With the migraine lessened from a 10 on the 1-10 pain scale to an 8 with medication, my hand and the rest had almost returned to somewhat normal over several months.
When I can type again, I started a transcription course. I was doing that for about 4 months when my migraine decided it was going to be bad again and not work with my medicine. And my right hand got non-functional again. Some more trial and error, found a new medicine that lessens my migraine. Right when I was supposed to start physical therapy on my hand Covid happened. Therapy never happened but my hand is mostly useful for everyday use, but fine-motor skill tasks are still challenging. Like typing.
My typing ability is why I haven’t gone back to my course, and why I’m not captioning anymore. My right hand is able to type on computer keyboard, it took time to get there, but I can. The problem is, is that my right hand is delayed at the typing speed my right hand is used to typing at. This causes words to be typed rearranged. For example: SPRING AWAKENING, typed on the computer comes out as Srping Awaekening.
Despite this typing issue, 8 months ago I did caption the dwsa reunion interview at Gallaudet. It took me a WHOLE lot longer than it used too, but I did get it done. But 6 months ago when when Sandra did an interview alone at Gallaudet I had been stressed from stuff in my family and my head briefly got bad again (no worse hand issues, just migraine) for about a month. But at this point I still haven’t captioned it. My right hand is still delayed.
For 2021, I’ve started new ventures. I’ve been focusing on my art. My art was something that I worked on in days I couldn’t leave my darkened bedroom. My art style changes depending on my my head or hand let’s me do, whether it’s: painting, drawing, or photography. At some point soon I want to sell some of it.
This is not self promotion follow me if you want (I know someone will ask): @/13mtm80_Designs on all the social media platforms that I already have (Facebook, Twitter Instagram, Tumblr).
Also in 2021, I did have Covid. But not when you asked (that was migraine sickness). I had Covid about a month ago. Caught it from someone in my house, all three of us had mild symptoms. It lasted the average mild length of 2 weeks. I’m fine now though.
So, yes I’m still apart of the dwsa fandom and I’m going to try and reacquaint myself back into my 13mtm80 accounts. All the apps are still on my phone. It’s just recently when I’ve been on them I was on my other account.
I’ll try to be more involved on social media, though I don’t know if I will be able to do any more captioning.
“@gallytheatre: Deaf Artists Backstage will return next Friday with an amazing group interview with most of the Deaf cast members (@barbeemiles18 @danielndurant @treshelleedmond @sandy21mae @amelia8hensley @castillejoshua @alexandriawailesofficial) of the acclaimed Broadway musical, Spring Awakening! Join us at Noon EST, Friday September 18th for this unique glimpse into the Broadway experience! Voice interpretation and auto-captions are provided for this incredibly rare group interview. #deafartistsbackstage #deafactor #deaftheatre #springawakening #broadway #purplesummer #notgone"
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Some people used YouTube’s Community Contributions as a way to add spam, memes, & other things no one said in the video.
So they decide to remove the option completely (rather than find a way to sort spam from actual captions).
Most the time a video is ONLY captioned because of Com. Captions. With the removal of this feature, billions of videos will not be accessible for ALL people.
Sign the petition to tell YouTube not to remove Community Captions.
People all around the world worked together to make the videos accessible for EVERYONE. Not just for Deaf & Hard of Hearing people, but also people with sensory processing disorders, and people who’s language is not the same as the video.
Most the time a video is ONLY captioned because of Community Captions.
With the removal of this feature, billions of videos will not be accessible for ALL people.
Sign the petition to tell @YouTube not to remove Community Captions.
People all around the world worked together to make the videos accessible for EVERYONE. Not just for Deaf & Hard of Hearing people, but also people with sensory processing disorders, and people who’s language is not the same as the video.
Most the time a video is ONLY captioned because of Community Captions.
With the removal of this feature, billions of videos will not be accessible for ALL people.
Sign the petition to tell @YouTube not to remove Community Captions.
Kathryn Gallagher (‘Jagged Little Pill,’ ‘Spring Awakening,’ Netflix’s 'You’) and Andy Mientus (CW’s 'The Flash,’ 'Smash,’ 'Spring Awakening’) sing their “broadway witch version’ of Taylor Swift’s “willow” to celebrate the winter solstice, music directed by Benjamin Rauhala.
Last week, Tyler Shields, one of my all time favorite artists and I finally had a photoshoot together that we’d been talking about for years. Literal years. We ended up shooting all different looks and we took some photos I’m really proud of.
We both posted them and the response has been pretty cool.
Seems like a lot of people were stoked to see a different body type (than usually represented in the media) embracing herself.
I want to get real with you. I have tried for my entire life to be skinny. To look like girls I see in magazines, on instagram, etc. I did my first juice cleanse at 13, was on Jenny Craig when I was 14, bulimic by 18. You name it, I’ve done it.
I got bullied my whole life, but pretty intensely in middle school for my weight: fake youtube accounts were created to comment on my videos, boys writing on my facebook photos, honesty box (god, remember honesty box?!?!) prank phone calls - i mean… it got bad. So bad my parents made me switch schools.
Eventually, I got to a point where losing the 10, 15, 20 lbs wasn’t worth it. Thinking about my food intake, my waistline, most importantly, what other people were thinking about my waistline, was consuming me in every single aspect of my life and I was miserable. For all of high school I didn’t show my arms to anyone because one time in middle school someone told me I had man shoulders and fat arms. I lost weight, I gained weight and my happiness didn’t change! There was NO correlation. At all! Like at ALL! I could be skinny, hungry and still miserable. Or I could be less skinny, still hungry, still miserable! And I was so sure that being skinny would make me happy/make people love me/make all of my wildest hopes and dreams come true. Eventually I realized that idea was WRONG.
It hit me recently that I, and I alone, am responsible for my own happiness. I get to decide whether or not to wake up and look at my body like it’s something awesome, or terrible, or fine, or disgusting (or as my favorite 7th grade troll says “disgutsing”). People will say shitty things. They will. Because someone said shitty things to them. Because they are unhappy with themselves. Because they’re mean. Because WHO CARES. They will say shitty things and usually it has nothing to do with you. So I’m trying really hard to wake up and choose to see my body as exactly what it is - mine, and the only one I’ll ever have. It lets me walk, and dance and sing and move and run and go to soulcycle and pilates and also lay on the couch and watch SVU for hours. I get to decide to love it or hate it. And that decision changes, sometimes every 14 seconds. I don’t wake up feeling confident everyday. I don’t. Not even close.
I got the feeling after reading some comments and messages (lovely ones!) that some of you might be feeling the same things that I feel and I wanted you to know, you’re awesome. You’re not perfect. No one is. You’re you! And you’re better at being you than anyone else in the world. So figure out what you love about being you and embrace that. And the things you don’t love so much, embrace them too. Because life is so much better when you do. I spent years believing other peoples thoughts about my body, thoughts that they probably didn’t think twice about shooting into my brain like evil little arrows. Thoughts that have lived in my brain for 15 years, thoughts that built a home and had kids and rescued a dog.
But, I’m trying something new. I’m trying to start believing my own thoughts about my body. Which is that I am so lucky and thankful that it works so well (especially after lots of years of me treating it like total shit)
So today I’m starting small, I’m waking up and choosing to just be stoked that I can pick up my guitar and write a song. My body lets me do that, and in my opinion, that’s pretty awesome! So good morning, your body lets you be you - don’t let anyone take that away from you. You’re awesome. Now, go out there and be your bad self.
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