Deaf Culture. Deafness. ASL. Deaf People. All those thing catch my attention. People think that ASL is not a language and that deaf people don 't have a culture. Many people see Deaf people as “special ed or dummies” when they don’t know anything about them or their world. I have learned a lot about deafness and the culture it has. Deafness is always intriguing to me, it always catches my attention. I don 't know what it is about deafness and ASL but I love it. I 've always wanted to learn ASL and all the peaks and turns of it. Now, that I have the chance to learn it’s very exciting. On the 28th of October I went to Oggi’s Pizza with some classmates and when we got there we didn 't see anyone signing, just hearing and talking people. Before arriving to Oggi’s Pizza we were scared that
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I met different people that helped us understand what they were saying. There was 2 people that I really liked, one was this guy named Phil.Phil was hard of hearing. He got really sick when he was a child and lost all of his hearing from his left ear and could hear some from his right. There was something he said that made me almost tear up. We were sitting in a group of like 15 people and he asked each of us that why did we choose signing and ASL. We all gave our answer and he said “the reason I think that you guys are learning ASL is because you see how hard it is to communicate with people and you want to make communication better & because you guys have good hearts and are willing to learn to make communication better.” That made me realize that I’m not doing this for myself but because I want to communicate with the deaf. Me willing to take time and learn a new language when other people don 't think that Deaf people are important make me feel that I’m doing something right. The other guy’s name was Ryan. Ryan was completely deaf. Ryan was born deaf on one ear, and around the age of 2 he slowly started loosing his hearing in his other
I met different people that helped us understand what they were saying. There was 2 people that I really liked, one was this guy named Phil.Phil was hard of hearing. He got really sick when he was a child and lost all of his hearing from his left ear and could hear some from his right. There was something he said that made me almost tear up. We were sitting in a group of like 15 people and he asked each of us that why did we choose signing and ASL. We all gave our answer and he said “the reason I think that you guys are learning ASL is because you see how hard it is to communicate with people and you want to make communication better & because you guys have good hearts and are willing to learn to make communication better.” That made me realize that I’m not doing this for myself but because I want to communicate with the deaf. Me willing to take time and learn a new language when other people don 't think that Deaf people are important make me feel that I’m doing something right. The other guy’s name was Ryan. Ryan was completely deaf. Ryan was born deaf on one ear, and around the age of 2 he slowly started loosing his hearing in his other