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Author Heuer, Christopher Jon

Title Bug : Deaf Identity and Internal Revolution
Published Washington : Gallaudet University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (254 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: On Small Things Easily Squished (and Alternative Destinies); I Choose the Green Crayon; Bald Men Grow Hair When They Want To; The "Must Put Pickle" Mentality; Campfires in Boxer Shorts-Confessions of a Hearing Aid-Less Exhibitionist; Pushed into Faith Healing; Deaf Man Killed by Flying Golf Ball-A Eulogy of Small Accomplishments; I Am Not Your Poster Child; Corresponding Oval; Chris, Amy, and the Floating Motion Sickness Pills; Five Beers Away; Christmas Is Filling Up a Dinky Little '01 Toyota Corolla Gas Tank
Responsibility Is Not a BurdenFull Circle; One Guy vs. Seven Billion! Can He Win? Can He?!?; "I Don't Understand" vs. "You're Not Making Yourself Understood; Praying for the Hell's Angel; Noise Paranoia; I Stopped Being Disabled and Nobody Knows; a lot of bullets; Value beyond ASL, Value beyond Breasts; Plastic Souls; Koko Want; Point A to Point B Should Be a Straight Line; But I Don't Want to Buy a Deaf Person!; Fares; Babes from Space!; I Worship Cochlear Implants!; Have Cell Phone, Am God; Shark and Camel; One Roll of Tape and Your Whole World Collapses
A Bit Less Hearing, a Bit Less "hearing, "But a Bit More of BothMinority = Pathology?; The Real World-Bigger than You Think; Hangman; Cash My Check, You Flying Brick-HeadedRat-Pole Witch!; What Criteria for "Well-Meaning?"; Popping the Normal Pill; Stuck; Empathy Is Not Pity; Reborn, Karma-Style; He May Not Understand, but He Still Ranks a Five; Why Must We Know?; Red Is Stop, Deaf Is. . .?; That's You, That's Your Beer-Keep Them Separate; Guess What? My Hearing Ancestors Had Sex Too!; Deaf Rumor Mills-The Surest Path to Absolute Freedom; Backstabbers Aim for Your Back, so Why Cover Your Ass?
I Am a CrabWho Says Oralism Failed?; He Wrote about Ring Bologna and Disappeared; Spleen Gone Blues; Rubella Bulge; Footballs at 1,400 Each; You Don't Have 100 Percentto Give; Those Who Play by the Rules. . .; Never Get Mad without Your Prescription; Departure; Move On from Milan; Why Deaf People No Go Boom; Making Deaf Awareness Day Effective; Just Duck and They'll Shoot Each Other!; Confl ict; Nietzsche's Downside; Advice on Tennis and Pain; Missing the Bounce; Institutionalized Just Like You; Dishes Done, Institution-Style!; Research-The Best Way to Avoid Real Answers
The Sign for AdministratorWhen Your Cat Is Passive-Aggressive; Invalidation: The Mind-Game Gift That Keeps on Giving!; Institutions for the Deaf? Pfft; Guys in Ties? One Tug Closer to Strangulation!; White Dress Shirts-Making the World Safer for Workplace Projection!; The Tyranny of Polyester; It's Vietnam All over Again!; My Son, the Manchurian Candidate!; Engineering Efficient Institutions; The Lie of Dependency; In the Depths of Space, No One Can Lipread Your Scream; You're Always Caught in Someone's Machine; Visible Scars; It Wasn't Self-Pity That Stopped Me from Becoming a Telemarketer
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Subject Deaf.
Deaf men -- Anecdotes
Deaf -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes
Persons With Hearing Impairments
deaf.
Deaf
Deaf men
Deaf -- Social life and customs
Genre/Form Anecdotes
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781563683886
1563683881