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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?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I first went to a local school. One I could\Nwalk to from home. I think it was only about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,five minutes away. My parents wanted \Nme to go there so I was nearby.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They did not want to send me away \Nto boarding school.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately, the focus was very much \Non speaking and listening so my parents
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eventually decided to send me to a \Nschool in Glasgow where they used sign language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Makes sense. So your parents decided \Nto remove you from that local school
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it did not suit you and they \Nhad to send you away.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Were you happy at your school in Glasgow?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was okay. They used sign language \Nthere, but the teachers couldn’t really
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sign very well. They would speak and \Nthrow in a few signs here in there, but not many.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at that time I guess sign language was \Nvery much seen as undesirable, am I right?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes. It was a long time ago now and there \Nwere very old-fashioned views.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was no real awareness of the \Nlanguage or its importance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think things are very different now of course.
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,,So, thinking about school, what was your \Nfavourite topic and what did
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you really hate learning about?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really loved arithmetic. Nobody calls it \Nthat anymore. It’s become maths hasn’t it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we used to call it arithmetic.