[Ashley]

Good question! I was born deaf myself, and was raised with signs and speech training. At work, I sometimes hate having to read lips and talk all the time… Being the ONLY deaf person there doesn’t help much, either, heh. There are a couple of people that do know some signs, but because I talk so good, they don’t. Maybe I should ‘turn off’ my voice and make them learn…. what do ya think

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Name : Ashley, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : Deaf, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 24, City : St. Augustine, State : FL, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, 

[Andrew]

While it would be great if everyone could do everything possible to help out everyone else, there are a limited number of hours in the day, and given its limited utility, it’s not realistic to expect a great number of hearing people to learn ASL. Sign language can’t replace spoken language entirely for a number of reasons (not least among them communication with the blind, telephones, and broken lines of sight), and the burden of learning a new language that most people will use only in specialized situations is a large one. If we can’t manage to make English an official language in this country, I don’t think ASL has much hope. (Also, it’s possible to communicate without speaking or ASL by writing things down, which is a stopgap measure but doesn’t require the huge overhead of time and resources that would be required to teach the general public ASL.)

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Name : Andrew, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 26, City : Brooklyn, State : NY, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, 

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