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December 26, 2020. I woke up deaf. And stayed that way for 6 weeks.
I hit the ear canal trifecta: Eczema → Fissures → simultaneous fungal and bacterial infection in both ear canals. My ears were all form and no function.
But when the hearing world went silent, I could still access interpreted news, information, conversation. Because I'd spent 25 years interpreting and teaching ASL.
I felt pretty lucky, considering.
Learning ASL doesn't always need to be charitable. Here's why I'd tell *you* to learn it:
🌑 "We own the night." Silence is a tactical advantage. In a crowd, across a football field, near your perpetually listening smartphone/TV — have full conversations without making a sound.
🧠 It rewires your brain. Visual-spatial language processing builds cognitive flexibility. You'll think much differently.
🏥 Medical vulnerability is real and sudden. I didn't see mine coming. Most people won't.
I've been a nationally certified ASL interpreter for 25 years. I built Express ASL so people could learn it right — structured, sequential, become truly fluent.
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TheRupertDamnit on Nostr: We are so lucky to have her here. ASL is amazingly useful. I only know a handful of ...
We are so lucky to have her here. ASL is amazingly useful. I only know a handful of words and the alphabet but it's helped me more than once. I had a regular at the bookstore where I worked that was hearing impaired. He requested me every time and would leave if I wasn't there "because Rupert is the only one I can TALK to."