I asked about playing a disabled character and your mind instantly went to "SJW-ism". That's slightly worrying but moving past that.

For clarification, there is a general attitude among able bodied people (not all able bodied people but I run into this regularly on any kind of open forum) that disabled people should be presented as "less" instead of what is more accurate which is "different". When I tried to play a blind character in D&D, I ran into a lot of players who were perfectly alright with the penalties my character would accrue in normal situations but got increasingly angry any time being blind gave me an advantage in a situation. For instance, their character's suffered penalties in the dark. My character who effectively lived in the dark suffered no such penalties and suddenly that was unfair whereas when the roles were reversed they felt it was perfectly justified.

Growing up deprived of one sense means you adapt in ways that hearing people don't have to. It means you often have a skill set that they don't. It is a sentiment I have come across very often that able bodied people don't like the idea that a disabled person can do certain things better than they can. If that's not going to be a problem here that's great. But I'd rather know up front rather than get a few posts in after I've written a character I care about only to have people start yelling at me because my character can read body language better than they can or can eavesdrop on a conversation out of earshot by lip reading despite the fact that by the same token they can't understand a conversation half a foot away if anything is blocking their vision.