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No you are not overstepping your boundary. You are handling yourself well that you are not imposing yourself on others. That is better than you expecting the Deaf people to hold your hands through conversations. You are just observing and let the natural language of ASL occuring which is good-- rather than forcing the level of ASL to adjust just FOR you. This will enable the Deaf and fluent signers to be used to you and more willing to help you to understand by summarizing for you. :) Just leave the help to them to decide whether they want to extend. Most of the times, DPHH are the places for Deaf/Fluent signers to come and unwind where they don't have to adjust their levels for novices to understand. They want to talk in natural environemnts. They probably don't mind being observing-- after all, everybody is used to be stared at. ;-)


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