Mean Little deaf Queer by Terry Galloway - 9780807073315

Mean Little Deaf Queer A Memoir\nby Terry Galloway\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Terry Galloway\nTitle: Mean Little Deaf Queer A Memoir\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Disability: social aspects\nPublisher: Beacon Press\nPublication year: 2010\nISBN-13: 9780807073315\nISBN-10: 0807073318\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf. As a self-proclaimed child freak, she acted out her fury with her boxy hearing aids and Coke-bottle glasses by faking her own drowning at a camp for crippled children. Ever since that first real-life performanc.