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DC --> Chicago // Latinx 🇵🇦 🇲🇽 // Nonbinary, They/Them pls and thx // "I am my own muse, I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better." - Frida Kahlo
in case you guys wanna know what modern high school dances are like, at mine despacito came on and everyone t-posed around this one kid as he fortnite danced like his life depended on it
to be fair, at a school dance when i was in school, a kid i knew had completely memorized the choreography to the gangnam style music video and the rest of us yell-sang what does the fox say noises at her while she did it.. so like, not much different. same soil different pot
if cotton eye’d joe came on everyone would make the neatest fuckign lines and do the dance in sync. it was like a cult. but hell yeah it was fun as shit
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL
“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”
My mom learned it because she figured she’ll go deaf when she gets old
My family went holiday SCUBA diving once, and a couple of Deaf guys were in the group. I was really little and I spent most of the briefing overcome with the realization that while the rest of us were going to have regulators in our mouths and be underwater fairly soon, they were going to be able to do all the same stuff and keep talking.
The only reason some form of sign language is not a standard skill is ableism, as far as I can tell.
Aren’t Deaf/HOH people against hearing people learning asl for not-communicating-with-Deaf/HOH-people purposes? I don’t know if OP is Deaf/HOH, but that’s what I’ve seen.
no, most of us would be really happy if every person who was able learned the regional sign language we use.
mostly we just want y'all to learn it from deaf people so you learn it correctly.
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