Another story from my youth: I was about 7 years old. My father was friends with this Egyptian gentleman who was completely deaf and was never taught how to speak, nor read, nor write, completely nonverbal and only signed. He was one of the most talkative and opinionated deaf people I think I've ever met. I'd see the man get into political arguments while signing. What was interesting was that my father knew how to speak to him intuitively. It wasn't any standardized sign language, and yet he knew it fluently.
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