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copperbadge:

jessytessytavi: flabber-gasted-fools: pinkninjapj: Based on this post. I’M USING THESE FOR MY NANOWRIMO FANFICTION. OMG. YES. And more idea fodder for copperbadge and scifigrl47… As much as I love deaf Clint Barton, I don’t know enough about ASL (grammar in particular) to do it justice just now — it’s one of those things I’d love to research-and-write, but the “research” portion can sometimes take a while. (I do have a bit in my drafts where Bruce finds out Clint is hearing impaired and asks him out to dinner in basically one fell swoop, but Bruce’s signing, like mine, is restricted to the ASL alphabet.)

You do guys know this is incredibly offensive thing to do if you are not Deaf, right?

Name signs can be given only by someone who is Deaf and just looking up some signs on the internet and say “look, name signs” is pretty… well, offensive. And cultural appropriation.

And “hearing impaired”? Like seriously? Correct terminology to use is deaf/Deaf or hard of hearing. Calling someone who is d/Deaf/hoh “hearing impaired” would probably earn you a punch in the face. Or at least a really disapproving stare.

ASL isn’t just some “cool stuff”, it’s an actual language. It’s a native language to many people and they have their own culture and community.