Not a rant but a really long post just clearing my head I guess lol

Not a rant but a really long post just clearing my head I guess lol

So my husband is bilingual and his first language is American Sign Language (he talks with his hands because his parents are deaf) and sometimes it gets really frustrating trying to explain things to him in English. ( he didn't start to comprehend spoken language until he got to school and even then some things are a little off to him). People thinks he's slow or annoying because he asks questions after questions and it doesn't click sometimes in English and I feel that sometimes people forget that with any other person if they grew up in a household where a different language was spoken they sometimes need things explained in their mother tongue (or hand signal for my husbands case).

Point of this post I'm currently learning ASL and I get excited when I am able to break something down for him in his mother language. I've even noticed that sometimes a Spanish, French, or Korean speaking person needs things said in their own tongue no matter how fluent they are in English. It reaches them better. And I feel that because it's ASL people look at him like he's dumb for not understanding English BUT they don't have written word really. Yes they can read English but they're sentences aren't really sentences. And a lot of them don't understand written word even though they can read. I feel people are so quick to dismiss a person needing ASL than any other language.

He's the interpreter (his occupation) but I've noticed that sometimes even teachers need help (in school too, I had a sucky pre-cal teacher😒) and there's nothing wrong with that. But people shouldn't be too quick to give up on others.

My daughter will be bilingual as well. The only difference between her and my husband is she'll have someone from birth to help understand the English language whereas my husband did not. She wouldn't have to go to school and be told she has a learning disability when in reality it's just a disadvantage because the household didn't use the language they teach in school.

My husband tells me all the time he's grateful for me because of my patience and understanding that he didn't have vocal people in the house.

I'm gonna end this by saying: It's never anything really wrong with the student, the teacher just needs another method.