Week 12 Was A Good Week 

Ashley, you put way too much pressure on yourself. You don't have to be like every blogger here, just be yourself. Just speak from your heart and don't worry about what anybody else thinks, because you're never going to please everyone, I can imagine that it must be hard adding the captions. Maybe,....is there a way someone either here in the youtube community, or elsewhere can help you? Your videos are very educational, keep being and doing you! :-)

I understand you. Sometimes I am also anxious or nervous. You are very smart and I admire you. Congratulations on your project! ❤😘

Don't Stress! You are amazing and I love to watch and learn from you. You help so many of us new ASL students and I appreciate you and all your videos. And, yes, someone just said it right... Keep being YOU! We LIKE YOU.... Deep breathes stay calm and do what you can. Have FUN with it!

Great video Ashley. Praying for you and your family. 🙏🏼

I appreciate your hard work so much I know this takes time and you are staying so dedicated I love your channel and will continue to watch and learn from you as long as u keep making videos thanks again!

Hey you're doing great! Praying for you teacher! God bless you! "Don't be anxious about anything..."

Stay safe and please try not to stress. It will be ok. You and your family are amazing people.

From Malaysia. I appreciate all your love and effort. Yes it's challenging times for all

I love that you push yourself to be the best you can be! Make sure to continue to give yourself grace as necessary though. I do the same thing in different ways, but I try really hard to keep things in perspective... easier said than done. Thank you for your hard work, I love following your journey AND improving my sign at the same time!

Hope you and family are safe.Yes you can be speaking jus like yourself.Dont worry about other's judgement. Realy feel good to see you back.

I love your sweet spirit that comes across the screen. Occasionally I recognize signs I've learned, and I'm excited about that. Thank you for persevering even though this is stressful for you! We love you!

I think I speak for most of us when I say, you can slow down and take a week to not post. Use the time to reflect on who you are and how valuable you are. Give yourself permission too relax. Lots of love and smiles!!!

Hey girlie just wanted to say we love you and know how hard this quarantine has been. hang in there and keep being your amazing, inspiring self!! Don't put too much pressure on yourself, we love watching these videos because of the wonderful person you are!

I am so thankful for your channel, and I know adding closed captioning is a lot of work, but I'm so thankful for it! It's a huge help to me in my desire to learn sign language, as I currently do not know anyone who uses ASL. Thanks so much for sharing your life with us, including your struggles! Hoping you are staying safe, happy, and healthy.

You are a great teacher . I'm glad I subscribed .

It doesn't matter about time, we like you and you are teaching us so much, that we will watch you. Have a great day.

Your channel just came up in my recommendations. I watched you talk to your sisters about growing up with a deaf sister, and a couple of videos with your dad - they were all great! Now, I see you mention that you have videos teaching sign language. We recently got two new hires at my office who are deaf, and I feel so bad about not being able to communicate with them - it must be so isolating for them. Fortunately, there are about 2000 people in my building, so there are other deaf people and I see them getting together at breaks. Then I wonder, what if you don't really like those people, but they are the only ones with whom you can easily communicate, so you get stuck with them? It would be like being in a foreign country and you bump into someone who speaks your language, and it's such a relief. I have to watch your videos, and at least try! Seems like you are putting a lot of pressure on yourself - just do what you can, but I really do appreciate the translation!

Yes and thank you for spending that hour

It is okay Ashley, relax, we love you and the effort you put into teaching us ASL. I’m almost 70 and met my first deaf person just about two years ago (really!). Right after meeting this young lady I wanted to learn how to communicate with her. Found videos online, bought some books ( they are still gathering dust on my shelf), but then found your videos about learning the alphabet and signing. I can remember how to sign the alphabet until I have to actually spell out a word (spelling was never my strong suit in school). But sometimes I can put together two or three signs to make a simple sentence. Hahaha. I have read (I actually did open a couple of those books) that ASL grammar is really different from spoken grammar used by us hearies. Could you explain that and help me to put my signs in the right order...or is there no need to worry about that with my simple sentences? Thanks again Ashley and I so appreciate what you do.

I'm sure you can power through. I love watching you because you're so genuine.

I always look forward to your videos, and though it's frustrating for you to CC them I do appreciate it. Though I'm getting better at receptivity and able to understand a lot more w/out reading the CC. Don't be concerned about the time of the videos so much since it makes you so anxious. Just "say what you want to say", so to say :D Just to let you know, I really enjoy watching both types of videos you do, teaching and your vlogging because when you do a video this way I can see "natural" signing if that's a word? In other words how you would sign if conversing with someone and not teaching so seeing the little nuances and recognizing them makes me feel like I'm making some progress, and why I also usually watch the videos more then once to keep practicing. Keep doing what your doing and don't stress yourself out, a lot of folks appreciate you vlogs. Stay safe and stay healthy and hope your family is also staying well. Rich :)

thank you sooo much for all the effort you put into making your videos .honestly it helped me learn soo much of sign in such a short period of time and like everyone has said don't stress out and just be you ! you are perfect just the way you are !!!

It's week 12 and I definitely know the signs for anxious and nervous. :) Seriously though, it is helpful to see the conversational signing. Gives a better idea of how they are used in practice and makes learning more complete. Thank you!

Trust us, your followers! You are a great story teller and know how to connect us with a deep, human side of things we all share. I very much enjoyed the videos with your sisters, parents, the school tour ... just because of what you have to show and say! You also great creating bridges over different languages, worldviews, feelings ... to me it's like magic! You diserve to enjoy your powers and the results at least as much as we do :)

I'm glad you're making progress, but don't put the pressure on yourself to get specific content out! Just share whatever is on your mind and things that you like to do in your daily life. I'm not a blogger, but it seems like that's what everyone else does lol. I encourage you to not use captions if you don't want to, it would honestly help me improve my receptive skills! You're doing great, sweetie!

Hey, idk if u'll read this, but I found your channel recently, and I love it, I personally donno anyone irl who's deaf, but i'm fascinated by ASL and also believe that every person SHOULD have at least basic understanding of ASL, and so i came upon your channel and I love it, I love your normal videos and learning to sign from them, I wish you luck, and if I ever talk to a deaf person, or understand them, it'll be thanks to you

Thank you for continuing in doing videos. Blessings to you and your family in our Lord Jesus Christ

Thank you so much! I am learning so much ASL from your vlogs & videos! I appreciate your time & care for others. Please don’t add cc, if too stressful. I can follow most of what you say & it is good practice for me to watch your signing only. Praying for you & sending love🙏💝

Yes plan ahead

It,s ok you THE BEST!😉

If translating for captions is a lot of work, maybe use ASL gloss instead of English grammar? I agree you put pressure on yourself. If you relaxed a little, your videos would still be fine!

Thank you so much for the time you put in to teaching people ASL!! You are much appreciated!!

I love ❤️ your channel I always wanted to learn how to sign thank you for sharing

Stress really drives us out of our wits, and I think getting a few days rest from burning thoughts is beneficial so that you can get back on track later 🙂 I'm new to your channel, and I guess many RU-vidrs (even PewDiePie before) feel the stress of not being able to keep up with other channels' paces. It's normal. You want to teach people with more ASL and I hope that will always be your motivation, and it's entirely okay for a RU-vidr to actually separate his/her audience and personal life. 😊 I know RU-vidrs who felt better when they shared less because they became more relaxed.

Your are such a nice woman, please don't stress. Live is to short for that.

I’m so happy that you are posting more request. Thank you for this.

Dear Ashley, Millicent is right stop pressuring yourself!! It's ok to be nervous and a little scared but remember that's just your brains defence mechanism kicking in. YOU can control this by keeping on doing!! The more you do the more confident you will become. As regards captions why are you beating yourself up?? Until you come to terms with being in front of the camera don't bother with them we can all use auto captions!!. Please keep going you are proving to yourself and the world now strong you can be. I am learning ASK and I am british!!

Oh Ashley, plz teach me how to sign numbers!!!!

Relax and take it easy..from Philippines

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don't feel stressed, just do your vlogs for the love of doing them. make your timeline more fluid. i love these videos, thank you for doing them.

You're great. I've not seen all your videos. But you don't HAVE to vlog. You don't HAVE to anything. Do what you want to do.

cc or no cc, I'm still watching. you're doing great.

Good job dear...👏👏

Thanks

Have you ever considered allowing someone else to caption your videos? You could still over look it to make sure it’s accurate but it’s an option. I would be happy to help do that if you’re interested 😊 I’m a recent ipp grad

You look amazing

Do more of you and your family with asl

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Hey, have you ever used Planoly app? It’s an app where you can plan your post and have it post automatically on schedule you want to post it. It’s a nice app .

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Love your Vlogs but ease up on yourself. You're bright, pretty and educational. I'm trying to learn ASL just for my own sake, so watching you helps. I wish I could communicate easily with you as I help train educators for on stage presentations....

Seriously, you don’t have to put close captions. This channel is for the deaf anyway. Everyone will be completely fine with no words just signing

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