What an absence of facts and clarity on intentions leads to. Without a clear visual for this word, I avoided drawing relationship angst and went with a character caught in a funny misunderstanding. A young woman overdressed in an 18th-century bathing suit and cap finds she has stumbled onto a nude beach as she shows the ASL hand sign for MISUNDERSTAND AND MISCONCEPTION.
The V hand / 2 hand palm out taps the index finger on the temple, then rotates the palm in for the middle finger to tap the temple, like thoughts turning around in the mind.
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I remember this hand sign for its similarities to the ASL hand sign for STUPID, which has the back of the V hand strike against the middle of the forehead. Misunderstand starting at the side temple with the back of the V hand and then twisting the palm’s direction makes it look like a correction on Stupid.
