something my husband brought up

[moontoad]

About how difficult it is for him to come across people. My problem? I think in ASL, try to talk in English and almost always blurt out Lithuanian when I'm in a stressed situation. No one understands me. My brain moves faster than my mouth, and ASL is really really quick. So I'll find myself signing when no one understands it

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[equusregia]

When I taught reading, people with hearing disabilities read much faster than those without. That has to do with how one learns to read. If a person learns to speak and hear a language before she reads it, she tends to subvocalize in her head when she reads. People who learn to read first, then speak, aren't as attached to hearing the words in their head as they read. One can read and comprehend much faster than one can subvocalize, but people used to subvocalization feel as if they are missing words if they can't hear them, so they impose a cap on their own reading speed. (As always, there are exceptions.) I would love to know what your words-per-minute rate is, moontoad.

Also, I've always wondered how much difference there is between ASL and sign language from other countries. Obviously, when spelling out a word, the languages are different, but how much crossover is there in the non-spelled gestures and symbols?

[moontoad]

Well, I can't read as fast as croucback that was a blow to me, because I'd always been the fastest reader I'd ever known. The only language I learned before reading was Lithuanian (well, and English). I didn't learn ASL until college, yet I *think* in ASL because it's so much faster than English. I don't subvocalize when I read, though, just when I talk. Mostly when working when speed is important and it gets all garbled in my head and comes out my mouth funny. I think this is from the 7-8 years of speech therapy I've had, where whenever I talk to someone, I am actively thinking how to make those sounds as clear as possible, where to put my tongue, how much air to push out, etc. And with the other languages jumbling around, I make mistakes. I've learned 4 languages, which isn't so bad for a deafie. (latin is the last one and I'm boning up on that again