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  1. Subtle_Shenanigans on Chapter 1 Sun 21 Jan 2024 04:00AM UTC

    Gosh darn; so I’m autistic but hyper verbal (although I do get verbal shut downs), but I won’t lie, the few times I tried to learn sign language I just. Struggled. I don’t like even looking in people’s general direction most of the time, much less at them as they sign. And it makes me feel guilty because I know there’s so many people who speak sign as a primary language, you know? I’m trying to learn the alphabet at least.

    Anyways, I look forwards to this!

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    1. citrusella on Chapter 1 Sun 21 Jan 2024 06:32PM UTC

      I'm not great at looking at people's eyes, myself, and one of my ASL teachers in college straight up noticed I was looking only at his hands and he pulled me aside and said I had to look at his face... It was a bit of work to figure out where I could make myself look in order to still be able to focus on the hands (instead of focusing on "I have to look him in the eyes I have to look him in the eyes I have to--") while getting the grammatical information the face gives off (non-manual markers like mouth morphemes, eyebrow positions, etc.). At this point I'm skilled enough that I've figured it out, but before that point, it was an exercise in awkwardness... XP I say it's nice you're putting in effort but don't feel like you need to be guilty if something makes it difficult or impossible for you!

      I had something else to say here but someone got me in a conversation about a different subject and so I've been trying and failing for ten minutes to figure out what I was gonna add to this comment and am blanking. XD Thanks for the comment!

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      1. Subtle_Shenanigans on Chapter 1 Thu 25 Jan 2024 12:15AM UTC

        Glad you found a way that it works for you :3

        You’re good lol

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