Tag: deaf character

Could you talk about autistic Clint Barton, please?? :D

jabberwockypie:

resplendeo:

wolfstarforever:

  • Autistic Clint building nests in high places so no one will mess with them and his carefully arranged textures will stay perfect and he’ll be farther from the noise.
  • Autistic Clint fin ding the perfect texture for his bow’s grip and spending hours rubbing it over his skin.
  • Autistic Clint’s special interest is archer and he knows everything about the different types of bows and arrows and it’s history.
  • Autistic Clint stimming by moving his fingers in complex motions and telling people he doesn’t know well it’s and archer thing when asked about it.
  • Autistic Clint holds back his infodumps to seem professional and not attract attention. At least once a week Coulson asks him if he learned anything new about archery so he can infodump freely.
  • Autistic Clint making little noises to himself as he works without knowing Natasha can hear him. She doesn’t tell him partly to not embarrass him partly because she thinks it’s adorable.
  • Autistic Clint hides in one of his nests when he has a meltdown because he feels safe there. Fury doesn’t know why Coulson is so adamant that he not have Clint’s nests removed or even touched, but complying.
  • Autistic Clint getting really excited when Captain America does a press conference and, when asked about the anti-vaxxers, calls them out on their bullshit.
  • Autistic Clint, man, autistic Clint.

okay, yeah

This makes me smile.

I want to ask Autistic Clint to explain some archery stuff to me. Maybe the history of the repeating crossbow?

Autistic Clint and the intersection between his autism and his Deafness

Autistic Clint stimming with his hands and it’s actually closer to verbal stimming than physical stimming because he’s riffing off sign words he really likes

Autistic Clint humming as a stim because he likes the vibration, not because he can really hear it

Autistic Deaf Clint!

scuttleduck:

cptstvrgrs:

avengers au where clint’s got his hearing aids but he turns them off when hes bored so that he can try to decipher what everyones saying
and no one knows he does it but they think its weird when he misses huge gaps of a story or throws in an oddly specific detail that never happened or gets a name really wrong on an official report
tony and nat try to piece together whats happening through increasingly convoluted ways that may result in more than a few injuries
steves convinced its just something left over from when loki was in his head and he keeps trying to get sam to talk to him about it
bruce starts trying to develop a new hearing aid that’ll register the sound better (clint accepts them and then proceeds to continue turning those ones off too)
and then one day thor’s telling a story about loki’s embarrassing childhood and he just offhandedly says ‘tell barton to turn his ears on, he will like the next part’ and the room just goes quiet as they realize theres absolutely nothing wrong with clint hes just been being a shit the entire time

I WROTE THE THING.

This Story is Not About Ukuleles

My author name on AO3 is Araceli, for reasons. Roll with it.

why deaf clint barton is important

actuallyclintbarton:

officialnatasharomanoff:

ok, all you boys and girls who read comics, listen up.

if you read matt fraction’s hawkeye comics, you know that clint barton has been stabbed in the ears with arrows, and as a result, is now deaf.  furthermore, if you read the comics, you know that today was the release of the asl issue.

in case you don’t know me, i’m hard of hearing.  i grew up hearing, and my hearing wound up getting fucked up the older i got.  now i’m 20 years old and wear hearing aids.  my signing isn’t as good as it could be since i’m surrounded by hearing people who won’t learn asl to communicate with me, but i use it as often as i can.

when i read the asl issue, i found a superhero that i could actually relate to, an actual, real, human being, flawed superhero that d/Deaf/hoh people can relate to and understand, particularly those people who have lost their hearing as they’ve gotten older the way i have.  this asl issue speaks more than anyone can understand.

admittedly, the issue didn’t quite use proper signs all the time, and the grammatical structure was more english than asl (asl has a very different grammar syntax), but for now, it was enough.  it was representation.  it was a step forward. (and why was clint talking on the phone if he’s deaf?  honey, if you deaf, you deaf.  i’m hard of hearing, and i can’t hear shit on the phone. like, i get he was letting jess know that it was him talking, but son, you are deaf and cannot hear her response.  but that’s ok, it’s just details.)

so marvel, you don’t know how much your asl issue meant to me, but i’d like to thank you, matt fraction, and everyone else involved with this from the bottom of my heart.  thank you for giving representation to a group of people who don’t really get very much representation at all.  thank you for for showing me a superhero who gets it.

deaf clint barton is important.  

disabled superheroes are important.

disabled superheroes getting back on their feet when their disability makes things rough for them is important.

disabled superheroes trying to figure out how they fit into the abled world around them is important.

deaf clint barton is important.

This.  All of this.  

petite-madame:

The Sounds of the City

Friend’s request, who wanted so see Clint Barton wearing his hearing aid. I did some research online, asked on Tumblr, checkout the latest issue of Hawkeye but I couldn’t find what his hearing aid looked liked so I went for something visible. Sorry if it’s not 100% accurate.

Photoshop CS6 – Painter 12

tips on how to realistically write deaf clint barton

kath-ballantyne:

skyfallat221b:

officialnatasharomanoff:

hello, fanfiction writers!  i’m making this post because i’ve seen some deaf clint barton stories going around, and there are a lot of misconceptions about hearing loss and hearing aids and all that jazz, so since i’m hard of hearing, i thought i’d bring up a few common misconceptions.

  • clint just reads everyone’s lips and understands exactly what people are saying.  this is basically impossible.  only 30% of spoken english can be lipread.  for me, if i can hear your vowels and read your lips at the same time, i can typically get what you’re saying, but that’s not a guarantee.  clint also wouldn’t be able to pick up lipreading overnight.  that’s an acquired skill.
  • hearing aids!  there are many different types of hearing aids, so make sure you do your research on those.  there are BTE (behind the ear) hearing aids, which are the most common.  then there are the RITE (receiver in the ear), CIC (completely in canal), ITC (in the canal), ITE (in the ear) hearing aids.  even if you’re going to have tony stark whip up some cool state of the art hearing aids for clint, it’s helpful for you to know which style tony would be modeling these after.  keep in mind that some hearing aids don’t have an off switch—the only ways to turn those hearing aids off are to take the batteries out, which you need to do every night while the hearing aids themselves chill in a dehumidifier overnight.
  • american sign language is just like spoken english.  not true.  american sign language is a complex language with its own grammar and syntax.  make sure you research american sign language.  watch videos, read books, learn as much as you can.  you don’t have to learn the language, but familiarize yourself with it.  you also can’t learn ASL overnight, so clint can’t just read a book on it and then be an expert the next day.
  • hearing aids fix everything and make his hearing normal.  hearing aids do NOT fix everything.  they HELP, they do not FIX.  so even if clint wears hearing aids, his hearing will not be 100% perfect.  he’ll still miss pieces of the conversation.  he’ll still have to ask people to repeat themselves.  not all the time, but it’ll still happen.  he won’t magically become hearing because he’s wearing hearing aids.  remember: they’re called hearing AIDS not hearing FIXES.
  • two days later, clint is back to shooting arrows perfectly.  this isn’t true.  when the inner ear suffers severe trauma, it freaks out.  as a result of the traumatic way clint loses his hearing, he would have acute unilateral vestibulopathy.  symptoms of this include: severe dizziness, nausea, blurry vision, everything moving around so his eyes would be darting about trying to make his vision be still, and possibly neck pain.  his balance would be thrown way off whack, and he wouldn’t be able to walk very well after two days, let alone try to shoot a bow and arrow.  typically, these symptoms last anywhere from a few weeks to a month, depending on the type of injury.  but make sure you research this yourself, so you know more specific details!  my really awesome friend gave me the information on this, so shoutout to her!

ok!  i think i covered the most common misconceptions.  if you have any further questions, and you feel comfortable asking me, go ahead!  i am more than happy to answer any questions to the best of my abilities.  i think it’s awesome that marvel is now incorporating a superhero that isn’t fully abled.  it’s about time the rest of us got some representation.  go forth, and write well!

This was really instructive and helpful. Thank you very much for enlightening us! 🙂

research is always good. Thanks for the info

why deaf clint barton is important

actuallyclintbarton:

officialnatasharomanoff:

ok, all you boys and girls who read comics, listen up.

if you read matt fraction’s hawkeye comics, you know that clint barton has been stabbed in the ears with arrows, and as a result, is now deaf.  furthermore, if you read the comics, you know that today was the release of the asl issue.

in case you don’t know me, i’m hard of hearing.  i grew up hearing, and my hearing wound up getting fucked up the older i got.  now i’m 20 years old and wear hearing aids.  my signing isn’t as good as it could be since i’m surrounded by hearing people who won’t learn asl to communicate with me, but i use it as often as i can.

when i read the asl issue, i found a superhero that i could actually relate to, an actual, real, human being, flawed superhero that d/Deaf/hoh people can relate to and understand, particularly those people who have lost their hearing as they’ve gotten older the way i have.  this asl issue speaks more than anyone can understand.

admittedly, the issue didn’t quite use proper signs all the time, and the grammatical structure was more english than asl (asl has a very different grammar syntax), but for now, it was enough.  it was representation.  it was a step forward. (and why was clint talking on the phone if he’s deaf?  honey, if you deaf, you deaf.  i’m hard of hearing, and i can’t hear shit on the phone. like, i get he was letting jess know that it was him talking, but son, you are deaf and cannot hear her response.  but that’s ok, it’s just details.)

so marvel, you don’t know how much your asl issue meant to me, but i’d like to thank you, matt fraction, and everyone else involved with this from the bottom of my heart.  thank you for giving representation to a group of people who don’t really get very much representation at all.  thank you for for showing me a superhero who gets it.

deaf clint barton is important.  

disabled superheroes are important.

disabled superheroes getting back on their feet when their disability makes things rough for them is important.

disabled superheroes trying to figure out how they fit into the abled world around them is important.

deaf clint barton is important.

This.  All of this.  

Hawkeye 19 link and ASL translation!

takingthegreyhound:

One upon a time, I had a deaf friend that I learned basic ASL to be able to communicate with. Hawkeye 19 is right up my ally, so I figured I’d post this for people that want to know what’s being said in this issue.

Here’s a download link to the comic via my Dropbox.

PLEASE READ THE ISSUE WITHOUT THE TRANSLATION FIRST! Matt Fraction stated that he wanted readers to feel the sense of confusion and loss along with Clint, so read it as it is first, then go back with the translation. ASL translation is under the cut.

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actuallyclintbarton:

evilkneazle:

actuallyclintbarton:

queenspritzee:

bobbimorses:

HAWKEYE #19

MATT FRACTION (W) • DAVID AJA (A/C)

“Rio Bravo” – PART 4

• The sense-shattering fallout of the Clint vs. the Clown — Clint Barton has been deafened!

• With the Barton Brothers this battered and bloodied, surely they’ll make easy pickins for the Bros, right? Bro? Seriously?

• If we do our jobs right THIS time, this issue will be the Dog Issue of Sign Language issues

This is so important. This is so damn important.

Not only is Fraction undoing the retcon of other writers who took away Clint’s disability, but he’s taking that disability back to his childhood before it originally started in classic canon. 

This is so important because Fraction is refusing to let Clint’s disability be overwritten anymore so long as he has hold of the tenure.

YES THIS.

I have been upset that they ~magically fixed~ Clint’s hearing since I found out he was ever deaf, and the idea that he’s been hard of hearing since a childhood “accident” (aka – you know it was his dad, I am sure it was his dad) that was unable to heal fully because y’know HIS EARDRUMS WERE DAMAGED is just.  Yes good.  Especially since Fraction said he’s been writing Clint as if he’s been hard of hearing since he was a kid, and getting “fixed” only took him back to the level he was at before the sonic arrow incident.

This is so important to me for reasons I can’t even entirely express and basically this is the best thing and I’m going to cry while I read it.  

This explanation that he’s been hard of hearing all along would also make me feel better about the “Spanish-sounding stuff” that turns out to be Russian (probably), as if Clint Barton wouldn’t recognize Spanish (living in BedStuy? Please.) or Russian (working closely with a Russian ex-pat and also an intelligence agency employee).

Fraction has explicitly said that’s what was intended by those captions/speech bubbles/whatever you want to call them.  I wish it’d been more explicit in the comics themselves, but that was what he was going for.