EmeraldEyles
2 years agoSeasoned Traveler
Deaf & HoH Simmers, how do you feel about hearing aids in the Sims?
I'm partially deaf due to a degenerative hearing condition that runs in my family. At first I thought the addition of hearing aids for those who wish to play as their Simself was a positive idea, but the more I'm seeing townie sims in my game with hearing aids the more it's bothering me. I grew up with both my mother and grandmother using hearing aids, I also grew up knowing that I still had to make sure I was facing them and enunciating my words clearly so they could lipread rather than miss out on whole chunks of conversation. I don't need hearing aids at my stage of deafness (that might change in the future), but I still regularly have to utilise things like closed captions, make sure people are facing me properly so I can hear them, or have to lip read on occasion.
And then I see sims wandering about with hearing aids, and they're not having to ask people to face them when they're trying to have a conversation, or dealing with people getting annoyed because they've had to ask another sim to repeat themselves, or having other sims shout at them because they think that yelling somehow makes it easier to lip read - and all of that's not even including the fact that I don't see any hearing aid wearing Sims actually signing, which is a language of its own and a huge part of deaf culture, plus they can all talk and be understood perfectly well which is not always the case with people born deaf. Like, I'm sorry but the hearing aid fairy isn't just going to wave a magic wand and give someone perfect hearing.
Am I just being overly sensitive? Am I the only one that's bothered by this? Honestly it's got to the stage now where if one of my born in game sims randomly has hearing aids added to them I immediately remove them in CAS, and townie Sims with hearing aids end up getting deleted.
And then I see sims wandering about with hearing aids, and they're not having to ask people to face them when they're trying to have a conversation, or dealing with people getting annoyed because they've had to ask another sim to repeat themselves, or having other sims shout at them because they think that yelling somehow makes it easier to lip read - and all of that's not even including the fact that I don't see any hearing aid wearing Sims actually signing, which is a language of its own and a huge part of deaf culture, plus they can all talk and be understood perfectly well which is not always the case with people born deaf. Like, I'm sorry but the hearing aid fairy isn't just going to wave a magic wand and give someone perfect hearing.
Am I just being overly sensitive? Am I the only one that's bothered by this? Honestly it's got to the stage now where if one of my born in game sims randomly has hearing aids added to them I immediately remove them in CAS, and townie Sims with hearing aids end up getting deleted.