My initial reason for taking ASL was to sastify my foreign language credits towards my BA degree but once I started learning it and learning about the Deaf community, I was hooked and then after ASL 4 and requesting ASL terps, I started to discover how much I had been missing out growing up. The first day at Gallaudet University was the big kicker.
Anyways, my ASL instructors were mostly deaf and they always were suspicous of me and my reasons for taking ASL. They were more hard on me than they were on the hearing students in my classes. I didnt understand why ...someone told me that later on, they had higher expectations from me than they did from the hearing students because most hearing students learn ASL but eventually stop using it..they wanted me to be a part of the Deaf community. I was flattered a little.
AS for the hearing students...I dont remember them asking me strange questions...it was so long ago...back in 1995.
