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Green, Doug

 
9781452074238: I Was Born This Way, How About You?
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ISBN 10 : 1452074232 ISBN 13 : 9781452074238
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2010

Synopsis

People worked hard, back then, to promote themselves as they believed they should be. Norman Rockwell, then Ozzie and Harriet, depicted Godlike behaviors and values that we continue to admire. However the hurt and loneliness endured by the fat girl, the oddball, the foreigner or the village idiot was largely ignored. Hopefully, they didn't live on our block. Few of us can attain Rockwellian Ideals. We're born with powerful and indelible compulsions. The flesh is weak and failure to achieve the ideal can result in the worst kinds of hypocracy. Pretending to be something we aren't causes damage to ourselves and to others as well. We've all heard stories about explosive consequences of passion denied. This book is about one man's fight to be kind to others, true to himself, yet achieve normalcy in a world with little tolerance for those who are, somehow, "queer".

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Biographie de l'auteur

The author was born 1939 in Burlington, Vermont, to a middle-class, Yankee family with traditional Yankee values and expectations. Intentionally and unintentionally peers, teachers and strangers reinforced his status as an outcast due to his effeminate behavior. His parents, wishing to raise their child right, openly disapproved of these undesirable tendencies and believed they could be erased. Unwittingly, they projected overt and subliminal messages which further confirmed his feelings of inadequacy. The pain was worse as a child. Because of poor grades and atypical sexual identity, he was sent to military prep school. Anguish didn't diminish in adolescence, but as he grew, self-knowledge also began to appear, albeit in fits and starts. At seventeen, determined to be happy, he left military school and fled to New York City where he played out fantasies and searched for identity. When he got sick and was rescued by his parents, he completed high school, prospered at a small, progressive college and graduated. After teaching French in a small Quaker school in rural British Columbia he moved to Jamestown, NY, where he taught French for two more years. There, he discovered that by pretending to be straight, others would get hurt, too. It was becoming clear that he'd only find identity and legitimacy in New York City, where he'd have freedom to pursue his dreams, not other people's. He began a forty year career in an agency for people with disabilities as he continued his search. At NYU, he studied special education, psychology and more French and left to study ASL (American Sign Language) under Martin Sternberg, author of the American Sign Language Dictionary. After making many good and poor decisions, at thirty five he met the one who would become his life's companion. Together, they built a nest, raised two boys, then retired. The American dream fulfilled. Why did it have to take so long?

Présentation de l'éditeur

People worked hard, back then, to promote themselves as they believed they should be. Norman Rockwell, then Ozzie and Harriet, depicted Godlike behaviors and values that we continue to admire. However the hurt and loneliness endured by the fat girl, the oddball, the foreigner or the village idiot was largely ignored. Hopefully, they didn't live on our block. Few of us can attain Rockwellian Ideals. We're born with powerful and indelible compulsions. The flesh is weak and failure to achieve the ideal can result in the worst kinds of hypocracy. Pretending to be something we aren't causes damage to ourselves and to others as well. We've all heard stories about explosive consequences of passion denied. This book is about one man's fight to be kind to others, true to himself, yet achieve normalcy in a world with little tolerance for those who are, somehow, "queer"

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1452074232
ISBN 13 
9781452074238
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
180
Coordonnées du fabricant
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ISBN 10 :  1426933282 ISBN 13 :  9781426933288
Editeur : Trafford Publishing, 2010
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