Contents

Introduction

Part One: Back Home with My Family

1. Back Home with My Family
2. Me and the Sick Feeling
3. I Feel Happy Being Here
4. I Change My Stories for Speaking
5. They Stick to Me like Magnets
6. We Sing the Same
7. Smell the Roses
8. Pictures Talk Best

Part Two: What Does Being Sick Look like, Anyways??

9. What Does Being Sick Look like, Anyways??
10. It's No Big Deal
11. I've Just Never Felt Beautiful
12. Excuse Me, I'm Deaf!
13. A Child with No Family

Part Three: I Wish I Could Be as Powerful as Lightning

14. I Wish I Could Be as Powerful as Lightning
15. I'm Proud of Being Deaf
16. Every Day I Learn New Things
17. The Gift of Tourette
18. I Just Kind of Live with It
19. Sometimes I Need a Little Talkin' To
20. An Uncharted Journey
21. I Want to Be at That Victory Party

Part Four: Wonderful Gifts of Mine

22. Wonderful Gifts of Mine
23. The Blue Dot
24. A Winning Kid
25. That's How I Got Egg on My Head and Other Adventures
26. Two Boys between Two Lands
27. My Privacy World
28. Where They Would Be Safe, They Perish

Index of Disabilities

Resource Links

Acknowledgments