"Personal Signs"--Is this something others do?

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I am still just starting to learn ASL, and my sister is being my "learning buddy" and studying with me. One thing we discovered early on, is that we already have some "signs" that we use in our everyday communication--even before I started having problems hearing, we were already doing that. For example, we have one for "blushing", "sweatdrop", "honestly!", "crying", "curious", "mooching", "super happy", etc. A lot of them are sort of in-jokes or imitations of anime/TV shows we have both watched. A person who didn't know us well wouldn't understand these signs though.

Do any of you have "personal" signs with people you are close to? Is this a common thing?
 
It's called home signs. Of course it is common.
 
I'm hoh and hubby hoh/oral deaf - he was raised Hearing in small rural town. He was adopted and has Rubella syndrome.

Like many, he never learned about the d/Deaf community and ASL. I learned a small bit about when I worked with d/Deaf kids during college.

I can sign small amount of sign or ASL <poorly> out in public but at home sometimes or if we're together in public sometimes hub and I use some home signs with each other. He has some personality traits and background that make him very reluctant to really learn ASL.
 
dogmom said:
I'm hoh and hubby hoh/oral deaf - he was raised Hearing in small rural town. He was adopted and has Rubella syndrome.

Like many, he never learned about the d/Deaf community and ASL. I learned a small bit about when I worked with d/Deaf kids during college.

I can sign small amount of sign or ASL <poorly> out in public but at home sometimes or if we're together in public sometimes hub and I use some home signs with each other. He has some personality traits and background that make him very reluctant to really learn ASL.
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Background....
Interesting....
Is it too personal a question to ask what background?
 
:wave:Hoichi, so as not to go from OP's start, I'll be happy to give my opinion on it under "General" - it'll be "General Chat" and be a thread called "opinion/answer to Hoichi's question".
 
Noxyoursox said:
I am still just starting to learn ASL, and my sister is being my "learning buddy" and studying with me. One thing we discovered early on, is that we already have some "signs" that we use in our everyday communication--even before I started having problems hearing, we were already doing that. For example, we have one for "blushing", "sweatdrop", "honestly!", "crying", "curious", "mooching", "super happy", etc. A lot of them are sort of in-jokes or imitations of anime/TV shows we have both watched. A person who didn't know us well wouldn't understand these signs though.

Do any of you have "personal" signs with people you are close to? Is this a common thing?
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It is not just "personal" signs, but how to communicate if I don't use ASL to communicate with my parents and siblings. This is why I need to communicate with simple home signs like hungry, drinking, or going to bed and using my expression on my face to show them that I am tired, sad, happy, frighten, crying, and other emotion feelings. That help a little bit but still I feel isolated without communication and not knowing what is going on with everyone talking and public eyes. Just like that girl from rural Mexico in the "Switched at Birth" episode (she never went to Deaf school and never learn Mexican sign language).

I had struggled trying to make head and tail in mainstream schools (not allow ASL, mostly oral only method) and never went to Deaf school so that I wanted to learn ASL so badly and to sign with Deaf students. I was almost 9 years old when I was in mainstream school (elementary). Both schools and my mother refused to let me. I was stuck with this lousy oral-only mainstream schools.
 
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