who only by moving can balance

So I'm three sessions into the Improvers' class, though I missed the second by dint of being in Cornwall; having spent a lot of last term learning principles and grammar and getting used to moving our hands and receiving sign (and a big introductory lot of vocab!), we're now getting lots more vocab, and last week's homework was to work out 100-200 (English) words' worth of story about our lives, then bring it to class as BSL.

I promptly had a lot of thoughts, contained herein.

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... called Synapse.

THANK YOU I'LL BE HERE ALL WEEK

Slightly more usefully, the two we were recommended were Sign BSL and Spread Signs. (I do not have the cope right now to hunt down non-Android equivalents, sorry.)

On signing while bendy, per last week's questions. I'm... honestly not finding it too bad so far? I mean, I did a lot of music and a lot of interacting-with-animals as a small; I doubt I'll ever be a fast signer because, well, not having that amount of coordination was a major problem with instruments, too. We've got a teacher who's very open to showing us how to adapt signs to suit our bodies; I'm having to be quite mindful of not hyperextending things in my hands and wrists while signing, but that's part of the ongoing project Fuck My Hands Up Less. The ring-splints don't seem to be causing a problem for my receivers. Chair use gets in the way of some signs around hips, but that's going to be at least somewhat dependent on which chair I'm using and is adaptable to. If there are more specific questions on this I am happy to try to answer them but open questions are apparently Tricky right now (can't think why!) and I am wanting to get this posted with this included so I can Close The Tabs, ergo that's what you're getting in the absence of further prompting. <3

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Homework. Write out twenty yes/no questions, plus expected BSL word order, plus expected style of response. Also make small sentences.