Neither-Nor : A Young Australian's Experience With Deafness

Acknowledgments vii Prologue: She Wasn't Meant to Die 1(3) My Life Wasn't Supposed to Begin This Way 4(7) The Wicked Stepmother 11(5) Handicapped? 16(11) The Mentor 27(10) They Don't See Me as Deaf 37(10) Beyond the Divide 47(10) The Invisible Disability 57(6) The Garden of the Dead 63(4) A Date at ``Macca's'' 67(8) The Ganga Man 75(3) A Call to Adventure 78(6) The Deaf World 84(9) Michaela 93(10) The Language That Has No Name 103(4) Pookie and Snoogums 107(7) Guilt? 114(7) Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi, Oi, Oi! 121(7) A Rip 128(7) An Emotional Bonsai 135(7) A Herald of Change 142(4) Whatever Happens 146(4) Florentine Acquaintances 150(6) Three Candles in St. Mark's Cathedral 156(8) England 164(5) Asylum 169(4) The Voices of the Damned 173(7) Back to School 180(8) You're Not Here to Kill Me, Are You? 188(7) Getting Out of There 195(4) Life in the Sane World 199(6) Home Again 205(6) Afterword 211