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Hi! While my real name is Lori, everyone calls me Lanee. It's a nickname derived from my last name. I've used the screen name "Lanee" so much over my past 12 years online that it often feels more like my real name than "Lori" does. As my tagline says, I'm another ASL student. I have a few...

Indeed, Kaitin. I had no idea before I started ASL how different it would be. I ignorantly assumed it was all SEE and wondered how anyone could possibly sign all of that! I've since learned the sign for "stupid" and applied it to myself. :giggle:

My son told me I was "too old" for Facebook. :slap:

No offense taken. :) I'm thinking that the cultures overlap from a standpoint of both being minorities. For me, my experience is within the lesbian community. There, we embrace all that is female, and we don't look at our deaf friends as disabled... we look at them as differently-abled. I...

Yes! That's what I meant. (And I am a she.)

It's within the GLBT community that I first met d/hoh people and was exposed to the culture. In my limited experience, it seems the cultures overlap.

Before I start... Hi. I'm new here... :wave: The very first thing (of several) that made me want to learn ASL was watching the 'terps on stage at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, interpreting everything from slam poetry to the lyrics of the musical performances. When it came to the...