#im& hoh — particularly mild hearing loss & auditory processing issues — and so i& started learning how to sign about a year ago !!

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while studying both ASL ( American Sign Language ) and PISL ( Plains Indigenous Sign Language ) it's honestly so intriguing with how different they are, particularly the sign for “friend”, it's so beautiful tbh especially with the knowledge that PISL wasn't just for D/deaf/HoH Natives, but by hearing Natives, too, to tell stories and enhance ceremonies and use as a nonverbal communication when hunting, communicating across long distances, when it's too noisy or when you need it to be very quiet and essentially acting as a de facto language for so many different nations. and then i& get mad bc our indigenous sign languages are critically endangered and are even less protected than our indigenous spoken languages. but it makes me& all the more determined to learn PISL and occasionally weave it into how I& sign with ASL.

#arcana.txt #native.txt #hoh.txt #mine. #and yes for those who don't know: #im& hoh — particularly mild hearing loss & auditory processing issues — and so i& started learning how to sign about a year ago !!