Personal Narrative: It's Deaf Community

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When I attended the IT's Deaf community meet up, I got just a small fraction of what it is like to be cut of from your way of communicating with other people. when I arrived in the room it was silent as everyone was signing to each other. Still learning ASL and not knowing what was being said around me was difficult to get used to. After settling down at a table with my meal, I just watched people talking to each other by signing, I would try to understand with my new limited knowledge of the language. After eating I was putting my dishes away and a girl sitting at the table opposite of me signed that she liked my shirt. I was immediately happy that I understood what she said to me. I went up to her and said thank you. She started

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