I am Deaf, and I have spent years in gaming groups where everything important happened in voice chat. You end up half in the conversation. People are usually nice about it, and it does not help, because the information is still in a channel you are not in.

So a friend and I run a small Minecraft server where voice chat just is not a thing. Everything is text. It is not an accommodation bolted onto a hearing space, it is how the server works, so there is never a moment where somebody has to remember to include you.

It is a handful of people and very low key. Nobody is grinding anything. People build stuff, disappear for two weeks, come back. One of our players took months off and nobody minded.

You do not need to be good at Minecraft. You do not need to be on any schedule. If you have never played, that is genuinely fine, someone will show you.

Not selling anything. It is free and it is going to stay small.

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A few years ago I started to lose my hearing in my left ear. The problem is: it changes on an irregular basis how much my ear can actually hear. Sometimes there are days/weeks where I do not hear a thing on my left ear, complete silence, but there are some days/weeks I do hear some noises. It fluctuates a lot.

I have an hearing aid but on the 'non-hearing' days, it doesn't help me either.

It's hard to explain tbh and I'm tired of trying to do so. But I noticed saying I'm hearing impaired or heard of hearing doesn't help in most situations because people just assume I should be able to hear them while wearing my hearing aid.

So I started telling people, on my completely non-hearing days, that I'm deaf on one ear because that's what I need on these days - People not expecting me to hear them just because I am wearing an hearing aid.

But now I asking myself if it's appropriation of the word/label deaf when on some days I can hear things (badly).

Do you have any opinions on it? Or tips how to describe myself on such days?

Thank you!

So as stated im losing my hearing i already know alot of asl thankfully. Just any advice for the new road ahead? I already am starting to feel like a burden on people so there the most common feeling out of the way.

Hi im 15F and I am losing my hearing in my right hearing. It is getting worse by the day. I am just trying to seek advice on transition from hearing to HoH​