Why SignWriting 01

Hello. My name is Adam Frost. I have been deaf since birth. I use sign
language everyday of my life. I have learned English. It is my second
language. My greatest frustration growing up was trying to take my
thoughts, which were in sign, and having to write them in English. I
never liked that feeling of frustration. Later when I found SignWriting,
which is a system based on handshapes and movements, not based
on any sound what so ever, I found that I was able to express my
ideas in sign freely without constraint on paper. I didn't have to
struggle with translating my thoughts into English just so that I
could write them on paper. So, some people think that sign language
is a universal language, but that is not true. I use American Sign
Language which is only used across the United States and Canada.