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LezArtist · 05-09-2003, 01:50 PM

Well, through out my deaf life was really struggling times for me. But when I was born in Texas, my deaf life was great because I was ard a lot of deafies and didn't think of myself being deaf. Just being proud of myself being deaf. Later on when I turned 11 yrs old. I moved to Iowa, I was put in mainstream for the first time since in Texas I wasn't really in mainstream, I was in classes with all deaf students. So, I suffered a lot of problems there, I got myself in trouble a lot in school in Iowa, also, I had been trying to tell my own mom that I don't understand my interpreter for a year because I never saw those kinds of signs before in my first year in mainstream. So, during that time, my mom never believed me she didn't listen to me or anything, she listened to my interpreter so I ended up giving up and not doing my homework, FAILED my classes, til end of the year, my resource teacher told my mom the truth that my interpreter is a bad interpreter and not doing her own job. She realized that I was telling the truth the whole time. So, I stayed back one more year in 6th grade so I finally passed my classes and finally got through 6 years with good interpreters. but the last year of my 11th/12th grade. I didn't even know that I had one more credit left to take in order to graduate from High School. So, my mom asked me what I would like to do, I told her I want to GRADUATE right now because I don't like those people around there like some interpreters that made me and my mom look bad and caused me having a bad reputations same as my mom too. So, my mom was glad that I decided to go to one of the college for one class to finish inorder to graduate. So, I worked for less 2 months then finally graduated. Now, all through out my growing in school, I learned a lot of different signs because in Texas I was used to one sign language which is SEE so now I know how to use SEE and ASL. myself I like ASL the mostly but in school I prefer SEE because it helps me understand more better. but i use ASL and SEE in one. It doesn't bother me at all. Whew, I got myself out of those struggling life for 7 years! Dang!!!

05-09-2003, 01:50 PM	#50 (permalink)
LezArtist Me n My Baby! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Missouri Posts: 355	Well, through out my deaf life was really struggling times for me. But when I was born in Texas, my deaf life was great because I was ard a lot of deafies and didn't think of myself being deaf. Just being proud of myself being deaf. Later on when I turned 11 yrs old. I moved to Iowa, I was put in mainstream for the first time since in Texas I wasn't really in mainstream, I was in classes with all deaf students. So, I suffered a lot of problems there, I got myself in trouble a lot in school in Iowa, also, I had been trying to tell my own mom that I don't understand my interpreter for a year because I never saw those kinds of signs before in my first year in mainstream. So, during that time, my mom never believed me she didn't listen to me or anything, she listened to my interpreter so I ended up giving up and not doing my homework, FAILED my classes, til end of the year, my resource teacher told my mom the truth that my interpreter is a bad interpreter and not doing her own job. She realized that I was telling the truth the whole time. So, I stayed back one more year in 6th grade so I finally passed my classes and finally got through 6 years with good interpreters. but the last year of my 11th/12th grade. I didn't even know that I had one more credit left to take in order to graduate from High School. So, my mom asked me what I would like to do, I told her I want to GRADUATE right now because I don't like those people around there like some interpreters that made me and my mom look bad and caused me having a bad reputations same as my mom too. So, my mom was glad that I decided to go to one of the college for one class to finish inorder to graduate. So, I worked for less 2 months then finally graduated. Now, all through out my growing in school, I learned a lot of different signs because in Texas I was used to one sign language which is SEE so now I know how to use SEE and ASL. myself I like ASL the mostly but in school I prefer SEE because it helps me understand more better. but i use ASL and SEE in one. It doesn't bother me at all. Whew, I got myself out of those struggling life for 7 years! Dang!!!