[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello. My name is Erin McCluskey. \NThis is a Wee BSL Blethers video on role models. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will see I have somebody with me. \NCould you introduce yourself please? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is Margaret McLean. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Marvellous! Do you have a sign name, Margaret? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just MML. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ll call you this sign name today if \Nthat’s alright? Okay. So I am going to Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,interview Margaret about her childhood. \NFind out what it was like for her growing up, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting her first job and so on. \NI’m really looking forward to finding out more. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Margaret, firstly, can I ask what it \Nwas like for you growing up? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well I come from a Deaf family so BSL \Nwas used every day at home. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I only have a ran into issues outside \Nof home, with hearing people. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It did make me a bit reluctant to mix. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So growing up things were pretty easy \Nand comfortable in terms of accessible Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,communication, at home at least? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Easy, yes. Everybody signed every day \Nwithin my family so there were no issues at all. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So your family were all Deaf then? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parents? Your siblings? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, all Deaf. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And were you all close? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, we were a close family I would \Nsay, because of BSL. I was closest to Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my father because he would tell me \Na lot of stuff. I think he was my Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,role model growing up. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How lovely. Your dad was your role model. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He encouraged and supported you growing up? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Marvellous. And that’s a perfect link into \Nwhat I want to ask you about next Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I want to talk about school. \NWhen you first went to school, what was it like?