For weeks afterward, my brother still said I smelled like pee and held his nose when he saw me. My mother praised him for doing that. At the first school I went to, my teachers kept telling my parents to use sign language at home to reinforce what I learned in school. But my mother wanted none of that. She always told me to act like a normal hearing person.
Most deaf schools try to balance between hearing culture and deaf culture.
The kids there learned it on their own from books. Very few schools like that still exist. The first schools to teach Oralism were founded in the late 19th century. In some of these schools, teachers tied down the hands of deaf children so they couldn't sign. When I went to Gallaudet, I felt really out of place.