CHAPTER 23

"Im always getting asked where I learned sign language. Do all people do that?"

ASL is the language to the deaf community, it belongs to them. Many deaf people ask these questions because they are interested in why a hearing person has learned their language. Also, In chapter 23 the author states about hearing people "some of them think they're above deaf folks, they use their skill to gain cachet in the deaf community, and manipulate deaf people to satisfy thier own craving for power." That said I feel as if deaf people question hearing people because of that. 
When a hearing person is fluent in ASL because they admire sign language as another language and have taken college course or independent learning classes a deaf person is going to be more impressed because they didnt necessarily have to choose sign language as another language to learn. Just as if a native spanish speaker learned English and spoke it as a beautifully as a native English speaking person would. Questions like these are natural when it comes to someone picking up on another language that is not their own :)