To sign 'I'm mad', bring your dominant hand up to your face with your fingers curved inward like claws. Pull your hand away from your face slightly while maintaining the claw shape. The most important part of this sign is your facial expression; you must furrow your brows and look genuinely angry to convey the meaning.
Sign 'BROTHER', then point to his location in your signing space, and sign 'MAD' with a strong, angry facial expression.
Point to the person, sign 'MAD', and point to yourself. Make sure to furrow your eyebrows and lean forward slightly to indicate a question.
Sign 'YESTERDAY', point to yourself, and sign 'MAD'. To show that you were *so* mad, make the sign more forcefully and exaggerate your angry facial expression.
Sign 'BROTHER', then point to his location in your signing space, and sign 'MAD' with a strong, angry facial expression.
Point to the person, sign 'MAD', and point to yourself. Make sure to furrow your eyebrows and lean forward slightly to indicate a question.
Sign 'YESTERDAY', point to yourself, and sign 'MAD'. To show that you were *so* mad, make the sign more forcefully and exaggerate your angry facial expression.
In ASL, you can often drop the pronoun 'I' if the context is clear, especially when expressing your own feelings. Simply signing 'mad' with an angry expression is usually enough to convey 'I'm mad.'
While 'mad' is typically signed with one hand, using two hands can emphasize the intensity of the emotion. If you are furious, using both hands in the claw shape over your face shows that you are very angry.
In ASL, the exact same sign is used for both 'mad' and 'angry.' If you want to show the difference between being slightly mad and extremely angry, you change the intensity of your facial expression and how forcefully you make the sign.
