Posts tagged Coda
Big Hearing Girl

After years of living under the watchful eyes of Grandpa and Aunt Jane, my mother and father bought our new house the summer of 1963.  Buying that house was a big deal for them because Mommy and Daddy were Deaf and after a lifetime of struggle and exclusion this house was a declaration of faith in themselves and more importantly their independence.  

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The Power of Standing Up to the Stigma of Mental Illness. (Reprinted from "Take The Lead Women")

I guarded the secret like it was a magician’s trick because crazy and unstable does not get to work at the Goodman Theater, does not get invited to fabulous parties. All that crazy and unstable get is judged.

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