Supernatural Imagines

White Noise Balthazar X Deaf!Reader

Requested by ginger300 Thank you!

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Tried my best with figuring out the right hearing loss situation. Please don't yell at me, I know very little about hearing loss. I don't know if any people who read this are deaf, but please know that if you are I am in no way trying to make fun of you, this was just requested. If you feel offended I'm deeply sorry and I would re-edit my update. I don't know how long deafness takes and so I attempted to use my critical thinking skills. Maybe wrong but I tried.

I do not know any sign language either so, I may be wrong on a few things, just bare with me.

******ITALICS WILL BE IN SIGN LANGUAGE, BOLD IS FOR THINKING, UNDERLINED WORDS WILL BE IN WRITING******
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You had been born with fully functional ears. Everything about them, physically and mechanically, worked. At around the age of 8 you had begun to experience loss of hearing, it wasn't dramatic, but it was big enough that is put your parents on alert. As the years went on you and your parents noticed your loss of hearing was getting worse and worse. Being the concerned parents they are, took you into the doctor to have your condition checked out. You were diagnosed with Sensorineural Hearing Loss. A condition that can be caused by a virus or disease that makes the nerves and vital mechanics to stop working. The doctors had old you that surgery may reverse it, but your type of hearing loss does not respond well to treatment, as there may be no way to bring back your hearing. At the time you were 10, and you couldn't fathom living in a world without your hearing, no matter how faded it may be. Your family agreed to the surgery, all went well under the operating table but the treatment did not bare its fruits. Over the course of the next few months you had desperately tried anything to get your small amount of hearing from disappearing.

Knowing that your hearing would not improve, your parents had signed the whole family up for sign language classes. They wanted you to get as much of a head start as you could so by the time you were completely deaf, you would know quite a bit of sign language. As a kid, this was scary, you didn't want to go and were still in denial that you would eventually lose your hearing. But as the years progressed and classes got more complicated, you combined your new taught sign language with your skills of being able to still read and write. You learned to read the lips of those that couldn't sign, which helped with your daily living.

When you reached the age of 15, almost everything was noiseless. At that age you knew and finally understood that things can't be changed and you would have to deal with the ears that you were given. You knew your life wasn't going to come to an end, it would just be trickier. You were grateful for the fact that you did know how to speak words, though not as fluently, as some people are born deaf and cannot speak words correctly. You could read lips easily if the person was talking directly to you, but multiple mouths still got you confused. High school was harder, often times big words that you read or seen mouthed did not make sense to you and teachers would stay after for you to help you learn them. Learning new words were difficult, but it wasn't something you couldn't do.

At the age of 19 tragedy struck. Not only were you completely deaf, but you had lost your entire family. The police said that your family was killed by a serial killer, one that had been terrorizing your hometown. You heard of murderers doing horrible and nasty things, but you never heard anything like this on any news reports. Sigils, carvings, objects in a small leather bag stuffed in the mouths of your family. It was more like a sacrifice that a murder. Two strange FBI agents had come wandering into town, asked you an array of even stranger questions, and had told you the truth about what they really do.