Profoundly deaf ARMY makes Filipino sign language version of BTS's 'Permission to Dance'

A profoundly deaf Filipina ARMY was inspired by how the BTS incorporated sign language in the dance steps of the music video for their hit song "Permission to Dance."

To help spread the song's positive message to her kababayans in the deaf and hard of hearing community, Cristina Guanzon created her own dance video using Filipino sign language.

According to JP Soriano's report on "24 Oras," she spent three days translating the entire song to Filipino sign language and film herself in several changes of clothes to represent all seven members of BTS in the video.

"[BTS is] telling us that it's okay to dance even if we can't hear the lyric," Cristina said using sign language.

"It's consistent with what BTS's message is all the time which is to love yourself and speak yourself, so 'Permission To Dance' was the song that opened it pa to the PWD community," she added.

Like many of her fellow ARMYs across the globe, BTS has helped Cristina love and accept herself.

"Thank you for helping to touch our lives and teaching us to love and accept ourselves," she said.

"Sometimes when we feel like we don't fit in or we're not enough, they make us feel like we're okay and that we're enough and that we're also worthy of love and that we're capable of doing great things."

—Margaret Claire Layug/MGP, GMA News