So I’m hearing, I grew up around a lot of deaf people. Due to this I learned BSL (I’m from Britain) and grew up using it. The one thing I always had an issue with was finger spelling. I also know a good degree of ASL and find finger spelling easier in ASL. But in both languages being dyslexic I struggle to spell out words and to understand what others are spelling. I’ve never met someone who’s deaf and dyslexic though people I know have and said they have the same issue. Obviously dyslexia is different for different people. For me I particularly struggle with spelling words out letter by letter. I have no issue knowing the different letters being signed but struggle to piece them together into a word in my head

I was wondering if anyone else experienced this and/or if there was anything that helped anyone improve

One feedback I got recently and in the past is that I sign too English.

I am trying to sign in BSL order but adequate explanation of grammar that helps me fully understand are scant.

I am autistic and like rules and guidelines which I found helped me tons when learning to become fluent in French and Spanish.

I watch and analyse signing in various contexts but often I feel I am not understanding fully. I go to deaf club, pub and bingo. I mix with deaf folk.

It is making learning sign frustrating because it feels like there some intuition to it that goes beyond me.

I know the topic-comment thing and I’ve been told to imagine painting a bridge with a cat (I am not a visual thinker and don’t know how useful that explanation is for complex information).

How do you learn BSL order? Where are the resources?

My teachers aren’t giving me concrete examples and I am starving for it because I feel like I can’t express myself well. I speak other languages so I keep comparing my attainment in those.

One example. I am doing a presentation on access to work. To start I sign: access-work-point-mean-what? To go into defining the benefit.

I found a video from the govt explaining the AtW and the man signing, who I think is a native BSL user, signs access-work-point-true-what?

Why does he pick [true] here where I picked [mean]? I would never have picked that myself naturally.