00:00There's a lot of separation between the Deaf world and the hearing world, but that doesn't need to exist.
00:21In America, at least, there's a lot of Deaf people.
00:26There are millions of people that use ASL, and sometimes we can't speak.
00:33So we can't speak your language. We can't speak English.
00:37But you guys can take the effort to learn some ASL, some basic ASL, to really communicate.
00:44And that way we can help each other out.
00:47I, myself, am Deaf. I lost most of my hearing at the age of three.
00:52I didn't learn ASL until I was 12 years old.
00:56Before I learned ASL, learning in the classroom was extremely tough.
01:01I would look at the teachers all the time, and I tried to lipread.
01:07And sometimes, you know, when teachers, they turn their back and write on the board.
01:12You can't really read their lips.
01:15I was bullied often, but most of the time I didn't hear what bullies would have to say, because I wasn't able to hear at all.
01:26Over time, a lot of people have been asking me to teach them ASL.
01:31That's how I created Science for Humanity.
01:39I decided to start making videos on Facebook.
01:44I tried to teach ASL in a really simple way, so each of my videos would have a theme.
01:52So, for example, I'd have ten signs for doctors, ten signs for babies.
01:59One of my goals is to make sure that ASL is taught in every high school in America.
02:07I feel it's really important for people that are not deaf and people that don't have deaf family members to learn ASL.
02:16I love ASL.
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