Titans Casts Deaf, Transgender Actor as Jericho

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I don’t know how many of you actually read New Teen Titans, especially during the Perez era when it was POPPING and just as popular as the X-Men in the 80’s, but this casting doesn’t make me feel any type of way. If anything, if they were going to queer up a character for TV diversity then Jericho was the perfect choice since he was moist as hell when 1st introduced during Judas Contract.
 

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I don’t know how many of you actually read New Teen Titans, especially during the Perez era when it was POPPING and just as popular as the X-Men in the 80’s, but this casting doesn’t make me feel any type of way. If anything, if they were going to queer up a character for TV diversity the. Jericho was the perfect choice since he was moist advance he’ll when 1st introduced.

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"Self identifies as deaf...":baldhuh:

So is breh really deaf or did he just willfully decide to live that I can't hear you lifestyle:baldhuh:

I looked it up and apparently Chella could hear normal until 4, then started getting progressive hearing loss. By 3rd grade had to start learning sign language to help in situations where hearing wasn't good enough anymore. Eventually got cochlear implants otherwise wouldn't be able to hear at all. So Chella can hear, but only because of the implants, and uses sign language instead of talking depending on the situation.

So I guess "identities as deaf" sort of makes sense. They could choose to consider themselves deaf or not. :yeshrug:

I figured it was something like that cause my cousin is the same way. She's had progressive vision loss to the point where now she can't see anything unless it's directly in front of her and no more than a couple feet away. So now she has a seeing eye dog to help her get around and she calls herself blind, even though technically she can still see somewhat and has never been completely completely blind.


I ain't co-signing the rest of everything though. :hubie:
 

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I looked it up and apparently Chella could hear normal until 4, then started getting progressive hearing loss. By 3rd grade had to start learning sign language to help in situations where hearing wasn't good enough anymore. Eventually got cochlear implants otherwise wouldn't be able to hear at all. So Chella can hear, but only because of the implants, and uses sign language instead of talking depending on the situation.

So I guess "identities as deaf" sort of makes sense. They could choose to consider themselves deaf or not. :yeshrug:

I figured it was something like that cause my cousin is the same way. She's had progressive vision loss to the point where now she can't see anything unless it's directly in front of her and no more than a couple feet away. So now she has a seeing eye dog to help her get around and she calls herself blind, even though technically she can still see somewhat and has never been completely completely blind.


I ain't co-signing the rest of everything though. :hubie:

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So did your cousin...ever try to just wear glasses:baldhuh:
 

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:baldhuh: at this whole post

So did your cousin...ever try to just wear glasses:baldhuh:

She has always worn glasses, very thick ones. It's not a normal glasses-type thing, it's some sort of degenerative condition. Like it affects her peripheral vision the most, if you are anywhere other than directly in front of her she won't even know you're there.

She's always known she has it (she's had medical problems since birth and has other disabilities too), but it didn't used to be as bad. When she was younger I used to just think, "oh, she doesn't see very well", without realizing how bad it really was for her. But by her 20s it was more clear to me that it was a lot worse than just poor eyesight. It's only been the last couple of years (I think she's 35 now) that she's had to get a seeing-eye dog and that I've heard her refer to herself as blind. She can still see things a little but only if they're right in front of her and close.
 

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I am still TOTALLY confused if this dude is deaf or not :baldhuh:

It says he identifies as deaf it doesn't say he is deaf :baldhuh:

So it seems like if you told him you were going to whataburger and asked him if he wanted something he could actually hear you but he would sit their and pretend like he couldn't because he "identifies as deaf":baldhuh:
 
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