Username : booklover789
Name : Simeona Gender : Female
A secret she has never shared with anyone : She has never thought of herself as beautiful. As much as she likes to put on a smile and accept compliments from others, she absolutely hates how she looks. She can't change how she sees herself, no matter how hard she tries. She only sees the flaws when she looks in the mirror, and honestly can't understand what other deersserts see in her. She just doesn't get that she's beautiful - and even though she's been complimented and called such nice things throughout her whole life, the only words that stick in her brain are the negative ones.
Her passion/hobby/job : Being entirely Deaf, Simeona's passion lies within her small Deaf community. She definitely has the opinion of "say it loud, say it proud!" in regards to anything in life - and this includes being Deaf. She will literally travel miles just to meet up with her d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing friends. She has hearing friends as well, but they generally just write back and forth with her, not knowing any other way to communicate, and it's a little harder for her to communicate with them than with her Deaf friends...but she doesn't mind having to work a little harder for her hearing friends, because she knows that they'll stick with her through life's ups and downs just as much as her d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing friends will.
Her job is writing and creating art for the blind. Deaf beings don't rely upon ridiculously bright and loud colors very often in their own lives, as they rely mainly upon sight and not sound (this is why most d/Deaf beings have accessories or clothing that are monochromatic - white, grey, silver, black, etc. - or solid colors), so working with a medium where she doesn't really need to concern herself with crazy color combinations seems to work best with her medical particularities. Her specialty is
braille comic books, though she's also been known to help create
paintings for the blind from time to time. When she does the latter of these two options, she deals mainly with adding the appropriate textures to the canvas, and works very closely with one of her friends who is blind, but also knows how to communicate with the d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing. In her work, she meets all different types of deersserts, and she absolutely loves the social interaction and being able to constantly meet such interesting beings.
NOTE: If you weren't aware of this previously and are wondering why I did this in my form, the word "Deaf" is always capitalized when speaking of a being in the Deaf Community who prefers the majority of the following requirements: signing/non-verbal communication over English, prefers to hang out with d/Deaf and/or hard-of-hearing individuals over hearing individuals, and agrees with political views that favor d/Deaf and/or hard-of-hearing beings. Lowercase "deaf" indicates someone who doesn't prefer the majority of the requirements previously listed. To quickly show that you are including both "deaf" and "Deaf" individuals in one word, you write it in one of the two following ways: "d/Deaf" or "D/deaf." I know this myself from taking various American Sign Language courses at my local college, so if you were thinking that I was capitalizing things incorrectly or writing things oddly, now you know why I decided to do what I did in the form above.
