🌀 ASL Sign of the Day: DIZZY

June theme: Emergency Phrases · Episode 12 of 30

Your hand does the spinning so your words don't have to.

Curl all five fingers into a claw shape, palm facing your face. Circle that hand in front of your forehead — one or two slow rotations. That's DIZZY.

No second hand needed. The motion says everything.

4-card breakdown

Card	Label	What to look for
1	Starting Handshape	Bent-5 / curved-claw, palm inward, held at forehead height
2	Motion	Horizontal circle in front of face, clockwise, 1–2 repetitions
3	Ending Handshape	Same hand returns to starting position
4	Usage	"I feel dizzy — I need to sit down."

Handshape: Bent-5 (curved-claw) — all five fingers spread and bent at the first knuckle
Location: In front of the forehead / eye area
Palm orientation: Facing inward (toward the face)
Movement: Horizontal circular motion, 1–2 repetitions
Non-dominant hand: Not used
Non-manual markers: Slightly squinted eyes or a tilted head reinforce the meaning

At a clinic, after standing up too fast, during a medical emergency — any time you need to say "I'm dizzy" fast and clearly.

Combined with HELP or CALL-911 (earlier in this series), it becomes a complete emergency phrase.

Make the circle small and horizontal — about the size of a grapefruit, kept flat. Tilting the circle vertical changes the sign.

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