Thresholds

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• Thresholds by IstiTanu

  Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  18 Mar 2026

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  • Uraraka Ochako
  • Bakugou Katsuki
  • Class 1-A (My Hero Academia)
  • Ashido Mina
  • Ojiro Mashirao
  • hard of hearing character
  • make hard of hearing its own tag
  • Hard of hearing is NOT always synonymous with deaf
  • Hearing Loss Diagnosis
  • mild hearing loss
  • slight hearing loss
  • Hard of Hearing Bakugou Katsuki
  • but not as the main focus
  • Hard of Hearing Uraraka Ochako
  • Friendship
  • Discovery
  • Deaf Character
  • Except not really it’s just that ao3 doesn’t differentiate between the deaf tag and the hard of hearing tag
  • Even though you can very easily be only a little hard of hearing and not relate to deaf culture
  • Hard of Hearing Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic
  • Hard of hearing author

  Summary

  When UA goes through their yearly unit on the medical checkups required as a hero, one of their practicals includes a full hearing test, instead of a simple screening.

  Some of Class 1-A is surprised at what they find.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Thresholds

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  13,598

  Chapters:

  3/5

  Comments:

  8

  Kudos:

  26

  Bookmarks:

  5

  Hits:

  342

• Coming To Terms by IstiTanu

  Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  13 Mar 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Uraraka Ochako
  • Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead
  • Class 1-A (My Hero Academia)
  • Hard of Hearing Uraraka Ochako
  • hard of hearing character
  • mild hearing loss
  • I’ll keep using that until it becomes a tag of its own
  • Mild hearing loss impostor syndrome
  • 5+1 Things

  Summary

  Receiving a diagnosis is one thing; actually working out what that means for you is another. It’s a strange adjustment, realizing that what you think of as normal, actually isn’t, and that you can receive help for the problems you didn’t even know you were facing.

  But sometimes, when you receive that help, you feel like a fraud. Asking if you REALLY need it. After all, you were getting along just fine without it before. And the feeling that all this hullabaloo is really unnecessary is only exacerbated when the diagnosis in question is “mild.” The impostor syndrome is real.

  Or, in simpler terms: 5 times Uraraka felt like a hard of hearing fraud, and one time she didn’t

  Series

  • Part 2 of Thresholds

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,495

  Chapters:

  2/6

  Kudos:

  5

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

  46