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y_grow_up

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  1. I think you bring up a valid point, however I am not sure that a deaf cacher or other would be offended by the gesture used as a symbol for geocaching. Deaf people are used to being in a hearing world. It's the hearing world that is not used to being in a deaf world. Hearing people out number the deaf in most cases and they become used to seeing ASL signs representing english words. Deaf people read more than hearing people, directions, signs, instructions more closely than in the hearing world. It's the way the deaf communicate in a speaking/hearing world.(because not many hearing/speaking people know ASL) I can't speak for the deaf and so I wonder if there are deaf cachers out there that see the sign for Lesbian first, or do they see a picture of a person with a gun shape hand up to their chin? My guess is that they would look beyond the picture they see first as simply a "english" language picture, not American Sign Language. I think it's a great topic and I do think it's' something to consider learning more about it from any deaf cachers.
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