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I found this video while browsing around youtube land looking for ASL videos. I really like how she signs it; as well as how she is a firm believer in that the Deaf community are the only ones who are ALWAYS the correct signers, not the ones who learn it and automatically think they are part of the Deaf community. They are terribly mistaken if you ask me.
Now that school has ended I am slowly losing my fairly abundant vocabulary of signs. I knew I would but I figured since I try and translate as much as I can when I talk that I’d retain more than I am. Sadly, that is not happening. The worst part of it all is there is nowhere in Tucson where I can go and just ‘practice’ my signing ability. I don’t have any deaf friends and the last deaf individual I tried to be friends with questioned my intentions of becoming their friend. Long story short: I talked to them online. Wanted to get together and hang out. Then he started communicating to me thru about 4 different forms of technology that I was only trying to befriend him to practice signing… Which I didn’t even know then! Nor did I know he was deaf! However, I understand he may have been in a situation like that and being I’ve never been deaf, I don’t know how some people may be. BUT anywayssss… I have no ability to talk with anyone who signs and it’s starting to annoy me. I am growingly bored with signing to myself or my dogs. Hmph. I will defeat this terrible sign-less summer and go to class next semester just as fresh as I left last.
