can a hearing person give themselves their own sign name?
I thought someone within the deaf community had to give someone their sign name.
You can choose a sign name for yourself. But be prepared to have someone in the deaf community "assign" a new one to you. I choose my sign name and it got changed by my deaf friends. I like it very much so I cannot complain.
If it's a concern for you just discuss it with the deaf folks and you will have a nice sign name before you know it.
Yep. Make deaf friends. They will get tired of finger spelling your name in short order.
My sign name give by hearie parents, but my name is word not name, so name sign just sign word. Boring.
I was wondering why one can't give oneself a sign name,
why it has to be done by a community, please?
After all, our legal names are the names our parents chose us, nobody else.
Fuzzy
can a hearing person give themselves their own sign name?
I thought someone within the deaf community had to give someone their sign name.