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I didn't start signing until I was 5 years old.


I went to an oral school before I was 5, then moved to a school that used interpreters and had a deaf program.


The school I went to used MSS. At that time, I simply knew it as "sign language"... not "ASL" or "SEE" or "MSS".


I didn't even know what ASL was until I went to RIT. I was at the interpreter support office requesting interpreters for my classes. They asked me what sign language I prefered... ASL, SEE, or PSE. I didn't know what it was, but from the way I signed... they figured I was PSE.


The reason why I was PSE was because I learned MSS (kinda like SEE) from my teachers and interpreters... and ASL from my deaf classmates. Because of that, I was able to understand SEE alone, ASL alone, and both.


When I went to community college, I had ASL interpreters... but didn't have any problems since I already understood ASL.


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