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{SPEAKER name="Steve Jones"}
There's about, maybe, 100 printers there that are deaf, so when I went to work there I had a choice of uh, not talking to anyone really, or learning sign language. So I learned sign language. It was uh, a little bit unusual uh, to work with uh a lot of deaf people around. Uh people in front of me, people on both sides of me, people behind me, and they're gesturing, waving, something wrong? They're waving and gesturing and I have no idea what they're talking about.

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{SPEAKER name="Steve Jones"}
A lot of hearing people get a little paranoid when deaf people are talking sign language around them. For some reason they think that they're talking about the hearing person. Uh, hearing people maybe think they're more interesting than they really are, because deaf people usually don't care what the person next to them is doing. Uh.

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{SPEAKER name="Steve Jones"}
One thing I noticed about the deaf community, about what you could call part of the folklore of the community, is that as concerns work most people don't get to work until it's time to go to work. The deaf people I've worked with will show up a half an hour or 45 minutes early to talk to their friends who work on other shifts and to catch up on all the gossip. It's uh sort of like a social gathering before and after work.

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{SPEAKER name="Lily Burke"}
You want me to stand?
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Sure, you can stand.
{SPEAKER name="Lily Burke"}
My name is Lily Burke, and I am from Greenbelt Maryland and work for the government. I originally was from New York. Uh I grew up in a deaf family and I grew up in a deaf world.

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{SPEAKER name="Jan Dilap"}[Jan de Lap]
My name is Jan Dilap [Jan de Lap], I grew up up in Wisconsin. I went to the deaf school. Deaf residential school. My mother and, my mother's deaf,

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