I valued for me to trying to speak up to my high school when I needed to learn ASL and to have ASL interpreters in the hearing classrooms. I really am very glad that I valued finding the ASL class at the Lutheran Deaf church after high school and opened the doors to communicate. I love it very much. This should be my first primary ASL, but some people took away my first sign language so that I could not communicate with anyone. They expected me to talk. 
Now I value more to communicate with the Deaf communities wherever I had lived in the United States and here in Canada. They have helped and still help me knowing that I am a Deaf person first. I hate some hearing people trying to talk me down and trying to control me. They want me to be hearing. Uh uh, no way.
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