beecups:

Why isn’t using sign language more common in society? like??? Not even just communicating within deaf communities but for everybody to use with anybody?

I feel like this should be standard learning material for those working in loud workplaces or with machinery, or maybe idk for talking underwater or when someone else can’t hear you at a concert. Or what about when somebody is having a panic attack and can’t talk, or just isn’t all that comfortable with voicing their feelings?

Why isn’t nonverbal communication more integrated into our society? Cause it should be.

Gods, I wish it were. As it is I use funky sign language when I can’t words and people have to guess what I’m saying. The good news is that most of my weird gestures are apparently easy to interpret, because people seem to get them pretty well.  I have a friend who does the same and we’ve developed a kind of system. Clap clap means “give me the” and then the gesture that follows indicates the specific thing.