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I'm surprised more students don't just make up fake answers... lol :lol:

I love all of these stories! Thanks everyone :)

I thought maybe that was the case, but I wasn't sure. There isn't much of a Deaf Community where I live right now so there is no one to ask - that's why you guys are so wonderful! So when you introduce yourself to a new Deaf Community, you just fingerspell your name instead of signing your...

That is completely awesome and you should definitely feel loved! Thank you for sharing the sweet story - it had me smiling like an idiot in the middle of the quiet, serious library :)

So a deaf child wouldn't be given a sign name by his or her hearing parents even if they signed?

:D Is it wrong that sometimes I feel like since no one ever did my homework for me, then I want everyone to have to suffer through their own homework?

Sorry if this is a rude question or I've posted it in the wrong section, but I was wondering who gave you your sign name (or names?)? Of my friends, all have received their sign names from their friends, but they are either other ASL students or deaf people whose families don't sign -- so...

The only advice I have to share is what my dad told me when I was being treated poorly by a doctor. I had been getting very, very ill for no reason quite suddenly and thought it might have been an allergy. I went to the doctor in my area and he completely blew me off - told me it was nothing...

ASL is a language, just like French or Russian. It's no more offensive to sign even if you aren't deaf than to speak Russian even if you aren't Russian. What may be offensive is pretending to be deaf if you are hearing, but that obviously wasn't the case. It sounds to me like you guys are...

I want to elope - don't care where! - and pay for a couple of closed loved ones to come, too, if they want. I would just rather spend money on a great time in Las Vegas or where ever rather on just one day that causes a lot of stress planning. I'm also fine with just going to the Justice of...

I've only ever been single - and I'm 24! Haha! What's that say about me?

Babyterp. I love that!!!

Lol - yup! I'm a baby now 'cause I'm new... new like babies. One day I'll be a kid signer, maybe even a teen signer, but not for a very long time. My French teacher used to call us French babies, so maybe that's where I got it from. Or maybe I'm just weird. Also, depending upon your...

Hello, new friend! :D

Oh my! I'm glad she didn't need any surgery. Quality body jewelry should be implant-grade surgical steel, so it shouldn't be magnetic at all, but I've seen alot of really poor quality jewelry over the last few years because of the increased popularity of body piercings. A friend of mine had a...

Lol! You know, this is the exact same problem I had in all the years (6 or 7 of 'em) that I learned French, too! We learned 'proper' french, so when we had a French man come to our class nobody could understand what he was saying. First, there was the accent. We'd all been exposed to...

I'm new here and I thought I would say hello officially, even though I've been looking around for a day or so. I'm 24 and just graduated with a degree, then decided that's not what I wanted to do. Now I find myself back in college working towards a degree in ASL Interpreting. I'm a baby...

This is a great question! I'm hearing and I've been sitting here trying to figure out a good way to describe what it's like to be able to hear. The my roommate felt the need to point out that my hearing isn't normal and I'm not a good person to ask. Whatever, I'm answering anyway :lol: I...

Such a cute baby! There was a baby elephant born at the zoo when I was little. We went to see it when it was a few weeks old and the keepers told us that right after captive elephants give birth, they have to separate them immediately or the mothers will kick the babies. Evidently, they...