ASL

First day of ASL class. Really good. Confusing, but really good. We were sitting there in silence for so long, then when the teacher asked if we wanted a break half way through and this one lady was like, "Yes, I need to use my voice. I've never sat somewhere for so long without talking."

The teacher (who's parents were deaf) told this story at the end where she goes to a friends house for a sleepover for the first time in her life. She's like 12 and they go into her friends house and her friend starts talking to her parents. Just talking like normal people do, but to her it was really confusing. She was thinking, "You people are so weird!!! You talk to your parents?"

It's always a strange feeling when you realize that what's "normal" to you is not normal to everyone else and their normal is not normal for you.  And if you've never thought of whatever it is before, or experience it, then it does seem really strange. Even if it's completely "normal," just cause it's a totally new experience. 

People don't get it. They just stare at you like you're making a big deal out of nothing. But it's totally different when it's something new for you. Like taking people from a village where they all grow their own food and showing them a supermarket. It's just a totally new concept.