I never realised how uneducated people are about certain disabilities, especially when it comes to deafness. I've seen a lot of comments on mangas with deaf characters with questions like 'but how can they talk if their deaf' or 'how can they hear if their deaf' and a lot of other stuff which I don't think are stupid questions at all, it just shows how much people don't know about disabilities overall. It's not something people learn about on a daily business because they don't live with it. I used to get questions like similar like this all the time and my answer is always 'every deaf person is different'. Deafness is a spectrum- there are different hearing levels going from mild, moderate, moderate-severe, severe, profound. Depending on the amount of loss you have some deaf people would have a hearing aid (used to enhance the hearing you already have) or a cochlear implant (you need surgery for this, normally needed if hearing aids can't support you. Used mostly if you have severe/profound loss) which is why some deaf people would be able to hear you. Some deaf people don't use hearing aids or cochlear implants at all, like me. I only use sign language- I can talk, but because I don't get auditory feedback I have a very heavy deaf accent, because of that people don't really understand me when I'm talking. In a lot of mangas with deaf characters they normally do wear hearing aids but still cannot hear anything with them, I think at most they'd be able to hear very mixed sounds but you would need to have very little hearing for that. Just thought I would say something on it because it's a question in a lot of comment sections lol.
I never realised how uneducated people are about certain disabilities, especially when it comes to deafness. I've seen a lot of comments on mangas with deaf characters with questions like 'but how can they talk if their deaf' or 'how can they hear if their deaf' and a lot of other stuff which I don't think are stupid questions at all, it just shows how much people don't know about disabilities overall. It's not something people learn about on a daily business because they don't live with it. I used to get questions like similar like this all the time and my answer is always 'every deaf person is different'. Deafness is a spectrum- there are different hearing levels going from mild, moderate, moderate-severe, severe, profound. Depending on the amount of loss you have some deaf people would have a hearing aid (used to enhance the hearing you already have) or a cochlear implant (you need surgery for this, normally needed if hearing aids can't support you. Used mostly if you have severe/profound loss) which is why some deaf people would be able to hear you. Some deaf people don't use hearing aids or cochlear implants at all, like me. I only use sign language- I can talk, but because I don't get auditory feedback I have a very heavy deaf accent, because of that people don't really understand me when I'm talking. In a lot of mangas with deaf characters they normally do wear hearing aids but still cannot hear anything with them, I think at most they'd be able to hear very mixed sounds but you would need to have very little hearing for that. Just thought I would say something on it because it's a question in a lot of comment sections lol.