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Christopher Jon Heuer lost his hearing early, but not before “being able to hear a lot as a kid.” He also received a good education, both in a speech-oriented setting and a signing environment. These varied experiences provided him with the perfect background to write about biases he faced, not only those of a mostly oblivious hearing society, but also those of ideologically restrictive members of the Deaf community. BUG: Deaf Identity and Internal Revolution combines new work of Heuer’s with his best columns from The Tactile Mind Weekly and the National Association of the Deaf’s Mind Over Matter. He addresses all topics – exit interviews, baldness, faith healing, marriage, cats, Christmas trips, backyard campfires in boxer shorts – with a withering wit that spares no aspect of life and deafness. Being “bugged” for Heuer began early: “When I was growing up, my mother’s response to every problem I had was: ‘Well, he just needs to adjust to his deafness.’ Bloody nose? ‘Chris, you need to adjust to your deafness.’ Homework not done? ‘I know it’s hard adjusting to your deafness, honey, but ....’ Acne scarring? ‘Lots of teenagers get zits, Chris. I know it’s hard for you, dealing with this while trying to adjust to your ....’” He rebelled then, and continues through his even-handed irreverence in BUG, a bomb that should go off in everyone’s consciousness about being deaf and Deaf.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-17
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  1. Deaf Man Killed by Flying Golf Ball—A Eulogy of Small Accomplishments
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  1. Chris, Amy, and the Floating Motion Sickness Pills
  2. pp. 24-44
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  1. One Guy vs. Seven Billion! Can He Win? Can He?!?
  2. pp. 45-47
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  1. Praying for the Hell’s Angel
  2. pp. 48-53
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  1. Value beyond ASL, Value beyond Breasts
  2. pp. 54-55
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  1. Plastic Souls
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  1. Point A to Point B Should Bea Straight Line
  2. pp. 59-62
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  1. But I Don’t Want to Buy a Deaf Person!
  2. pp. 63-69
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  1. Have Cell Phone, Am God
  2. pp. 70-79
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  1. One Roll of Tape and Your Whole World Collapses
  2. pp. 80-84
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  1. Minority = Pathology?
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  1. The Real World—Bigger than You Think
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  1. Hangman
  2. p. 87
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  1. Cash My Check, You Flying Brick-Headed Rat-Pole Witch!
  2. pp. 88-89
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  1. What Criteria for “Well-Meaning?”
  2. pp. 90-92
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  1. Stuck
  2. pp. 93-96
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  1. He May Not Understand, but He Still Ranks a Five
  2. pp. 97-101
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  1. That’s You, That’s Your Beer—Keep Them Separate
  2. pp. 102-103
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  1. Guess What? My Hearing Ancestors Had Sex Too!
  2. pp. 104-107
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  1. Backstabbers Aim for Your Back, so Why Cover Your Ass?
  2. pp. 108-112
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  1. He Wrote about Ring Bologna and Disappeared
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  1. You Don’t Have 100 Percent to Give
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  1. Conflict
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  1. Advice on Tennis and Pain
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  1. Institutionalized Just Like You
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  1. Research—The Best Way to Avoid Real Answers
  2. pp. 139-145
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  1. Guys in Ties? One Tug Closer to Strangulation!
  2. pp. 146-153
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  1. Engineering Efficient Institutions
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  1. Visible Scars
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  1. If
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  1. The Starving African Children Ain’t Got Nothin’ on Us
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  1. “. . . Anything Except Hear,” Including Believe Inspirational Bullshit
  2. pp. 178-179
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  1. Another Problem with “Deaf People Can. . . .”
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  1. On Being Brave
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  1. I Thought You Were KGB!
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  1. Strip Club Literacy
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  1. Let’s Bring Back “Deaf and Dumb”
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  1. Parenthood in the Blizzard
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  1. Coping
  2. pp. 205-208
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  1. The Economy of Love and Paying Attention
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  1. Final Notes for Hearing / Nonsigning Parents
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  1. Afterword
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