good dolphin wrote:
did I ever tell you about the time in college when I went to a Gallaudet University bar and I broke their protocols by walking in between two people at the bar who were about five feet apart having a sign language conversation? They both looked pissed at me and I was all like "what...oh"
Were you all like "what...oh" in speech or in sign language--and, in either case, which language?
Or was this pre-linguistic cognition?
Now that you're older, what would you do differently? To help you imagine the possibilities, write a dialogue between your younger, more racist-against-the-deaf self and your more enlightened self today. What would the two say to one another? 2-3 pages, single spaced.