ASL isn’t English on hands. It has its own grammar. Every language deserves to be learned on its own terms.

Treating a signed language as a hand version of English gets everything about it wrong. Signed languages carry their own word order, their own grammar, their own idioms and poetry, and they were built by communities rather than translated out of speech. Mapping it onto English leaves you with something that is not the language and cannot be used to talk to anybody.

Learn it as its own thing if you take it up, from a deaf teacher where you can. Expect the grammar to feel strange, the way any new grammar does. That is the respect you would want for whatever language your own family speaks.