I agree with Bottesini. We all have to put up with anyone who has a mean altitude and we still go on discussing. If you want to rant, that is okay as far as you don't get out of control. We are just discussing what we feel and you have a right to feel what make you unhappy what the ADers said. I do that sometime when I had a bad altitude with someone but I did not want to go far into making trouble. When we discuss, we want to let them know how we feel. So just ignore them when they make a negative remark to you. Just have fun discussing with us.
I came up with few reasons of learning sign language. You did a beautiful job on your ten reasons of learning sign language.
1. Very happy to learn that ASL help me open door to communicate
2. So relieve to learn new signs with Deaf signers in Deaf Club
3. Learn that I can have ASL interpreters in community college instead of mainstream schools where they don't allow ASL
4. Make new friends who might sign differently than I sign so I learn from them
5. I learn to associate with Deaf signers and get along with them in spite of their altitudes
