The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus–the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.

Write Hard of Hearing Characters as Normal, Rounded People They shouldn’t exist in your story because they’re deaf; neither should you toss a hearing disability into a character for the sake of it.

Helen Keller was born with eye sight and hearing – she said her first words before the age of one, but became deaf, blind and mute at 19 months after a illness that doctors today think may have been meningitis or scarlet fever.

How to Write Deaf Characters – From a real Deaf person’s perspective

• Deaf and Hard of Hearing is a culture.
• DO NOT USE THE TERM ‘HEARING IMPAIRED’!
• Deaf and ‘deaf’ are different.
• Sign language is not a worldwide language.
• ASL does not = English.
• Deafness is on a spectrum.
• Hearing Aids do not cure anyone’s deafness.

Deaf culture is the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values, and shared institutions of communities that are influenced by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication.

How to Write Strong and Silent Characters

1. Show, Don’t Tell. To begin with, Winters puts the emphasis in “strong and silent” on strong.
2. Leverage Important Dialogue. Second, when strong and silent characters do choose to break silence, it’s always because they have something of importance to say.

A silent protagonist may be employed to lend a sense of mystery or uncertainty of identity to the gameplay, or to help the player identify better with them. Not all silent protagonists are necessarily mute or do not speak to other characters; they may simply not produce any dialogue audible to the player.

To insert silence into your dialogue, omit an answer. Instead of the usual prompt response between speakers, silence a character completely. That’s it.

An awkward silence is an uncomfortable pause in a conversation or presentation. The unpleasant nature of such silences is associated with feelings of anxiety as the participants feel pressure to speak but are unsure of what to say next.

What is the opposite of awkward silence?

But for now, some of those little things to hide embarrassment can be used in writing to replace blushing and stuttering, for example:

1. Shifting weight from side to side.
2. Fidgeting.
3. Picking at skin.
4. Hiding your face in your hands.
5. Taking steps back.
6. Having a defensive pose/stance.
7. Crossing arms.
8. Playing with your hair.

1 clumsy, inept; unskillful, unhandy, inexpert. 2 uncoordinated, graceless, ungainly; gawky; maladroit; clumsy. 3 gauche, unpolished, unrefined; blundering, oafish; ill-mannered, unmannerly, ill-bred. 4 unwieldy, cumbersome, unmanageable; inconvenient, difficult, troublesome.

How to Overcome being Socially Awkward?

1. Firm Shake Hands. People love the confident people and since everything starts with a handshake, so make sure to start with a confidence.
2. Smile More.
3. Make Eye Contacts.
4. Team Up with Someone Skilled & Confident.
5. Ask Questions.
6. Improve Non-Verbal Skills.
7. Listen Carefully.
8. Final Words.

“weird” describes someone who does strange things that seem unnatural, spooky, creepy, freaky, disturbing, etc. “awkward” describes someone who lacks grace (e.g. is clumsy) and/or someone who behaves inappropriately in social situations (in a way that makes other people feel uncomfortable, unpleasant, or embarrassed).

Some common synonyms of awkward are clumsy, gauche, inept, and maladroit.

Signs You May Be Socially Awkward Include:

• Intense feelings of anxiety and fear in social situations.
• Failure to recognize and understand social norms.
• Frequently being avoided or ridiculed by others.
• Lack of meaningful connections with others.
• Failure to have a natural flow during conversations.

A loner or social outcast is a person rejected by their peers because they are different, strange, inept or misunderstood. They are ostracized, shunned, avoided, excluded, and generally unwelcome.

Your nervous system, which controls muscle movement, may function abnormally if you’re suddenly anxious or stressed. This can cause your hands to shake or impair how you see your surroundings and do tasks. As a result, you’re more likely to bump into objects or people.

Dyspraxia is sometimes called “clumsy child syndrome” and is often considered ubiquitous with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), a unique but very similar diagnosis also associated with poor eye-hand coordination, posture, and balance.

Despite the fact it’s quite common however, dyspraxia is often poorly understood and sometimes confused for a sign of low intelligence or clumsiness – but there’s actually no connection between DCD and low IQ. In fact, it’s widely thought that Albert Einstein had it.