Originally Posted by Southern

I agree with you. Since learning ASL I love it. and there is so much more for me to learn. I am as my friends say, “very animated”. When I speak I always use my hands. When I joke I usually am acting out something. My facial expressions my eyes everything. That is something I did not have to learn, it is who I am. Very visual in my communication even before learning sign. I love that about ASL that you can sign something like insult and a show it cutting you and piercing your heart and making you bleed on the inside. A hearing person would just say, “that really hurt” or if they were REALLY descriptive, “that cut me to the quick”. I love that I can be as fully descriptive as I want and I don’t seem weird, because you are supposed to do that! But i am still a word nerd! LOL