Can.

I was physically knocked down by being sick on Sunday and so much so that Monday I couldn't stand up without feeling queasy and dizzy. Felt badly that the girls got a virtual beating by Ruby and April without me. After all, I am part of the group whose receptive skills lack severely. I was able to slowly climb the hill on Tuesday and the lessons resumed. These lessons I refer to, are also figurative, not just those presented in class.

I know that "they" say that a person should be able to work from their B language into their A language easier than the other way around. And if so, a hearing person should find it easier to go from sign to voice, I strongly disagree. One cannot voice a message one does not understand. And my receptive is still so weak that my understanding isn't part of this equation. Yet. So I see vocabulary and yet can't piece it together to be the message, the "meat" of it. I was so grateful to Danielle for saying she could hear me trying to start to voice (Ruby's graduation class piece) but that I would just get overwhelmed.

Not once have I thought that I can't do this. Because I know I can. People are doing this every day and they didn't walk through some magic portal for their ability.

I will do this.