I was wondering if deaf people commonly watch movies or TV with the sound on to feel the sound/music? Or is there not a sense of enjoyment if it can’t be heard?
I’m Deaf and don’t care for sounds or the bass most of the time. That’s just me though. I know some Deaf people who love listening to music with headsets or playing video games with headsets. There’s a spectrum.
I lived with a deaf man for a few months and one thing I noticed is he would often forget to turn off the water in the kitchen.
He didn’t watch TV at all and was not at all respectful when someone was watching or listening to something. Just constant interruptions.
This just sounds like an asshole, being deaf doesn’t change that.
He was an asshole too. But it is something easier to forget without the audible cue.
yes. you can feel bass.
My mom has quite severe hearing loss but is not totally deaf. She uses TV captioning and generally can’t tell whether the TV sound is on or off. I generally want it to be off because it is annoying, so when she leaves it on by accident, I just shut it off and she doesn’t notice or anyway doesn’t care.
My stepson is profoundly hard of hearing so he’ll crank that shit up to 11. His Bluetooth hearing aides are excellent when he’s listening to something privately and you often can’t tell anything is playing over them (which he’ll do pretty often while having a conversation because he lip reads) but if he wants to share a video or music he’ll crank that shit way up.
