Mark Drolsbaugh is a Deaf writer and an educator at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. I chose to read Anything But Silent— a collection of his articles about deafness. He shares both insightful and funny stories about karate as a confidence-building tool for Deaf kids, being “on the fence” as a Hard-of-Hearing person, life as a Super Phony, as he calls himself, (finding ways to pass as hearing around hearing folks), misunderstandings about ASL, cochlear implants, and much more.

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