I’m just kidding! I promise! I am actually all for adoption, but that’s beside the point of this post. I really liked the role of the little girl, Maxine (“Max”), who was deaf. From her interactions with others, I re-remembered how to sign “thank you”, and I specifically forced myself, as I was watching, to remember how to sign “you’re welcome.” I’ve always been fascinated with languages, and there was a point in time when I almost took an ASL class at The University of Texas. The only problem is, though, that it only works in the United States since sign languages vary from region to region, but I digress.

According to the source of this picture, this is how you sign both “thank you” and “you’re welcome,” but that’s not how I learned it from the movie, oddly enough. Maybe it’s wrong; I don’t know. In Orphan, the mother taught the adopted daughter how to say “you’re welcome,” by making a round gesture (like how one would typically show that someone is pregnant) in the chest area. The hand movement went from the chest to about the belly button.