I was in Washington, D.C. for a week with a group of kids from my high school. We were there to learn about politics and the city...it was some kind of educational program (can't remember what it was called.)
They separated me from my high school group and put me in a new one...I was like, what? Then I realized...they were...deaf! I was uncomfortable...and there was this weird lady who sat right in front of us, facing the "wrong" way. I was baffled. Then she started...signing!!! What?! Then it dawned on me...they assumed I used an interpreter because I was deaf. Technically, I was "oral-deaf" at that time and didn't use one at my school.
My life changed. Literally. My world opened.
Two weeks later, I dropped out of high school. A couple months later I transferred to a deaf school and started signing again. 
