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MILD TO MODERATELY SEVERE
- Date Issued:
- 2011
- Abstract/Description:
- Mild to Moderately Severe is an episodic memoir of a boy coming of age as a latch-key kid, living with a working single mother and partly raising himself, as a hearing impaired and depressed young adult, learning to navigate the culture with a strategy of faking it, as a nomad with seven mailing addresses before turning ten. It is an examination of accidental and cultivated loneliness, a narrative of a boy and later a man who is too adept at adapting to different environments, a reflection on relationships and popularity and a need for attention and love that clashes with a need to walk through unfamiliar neighborhoods alone. "Mild to moderately severe" is a diagnosed level of my hearing impairment. It is also the level of clinical depression I'm supposed to have been suffering since I was a preteen. It is also an answer to the question, "How was your day?"
Title: | MILD TO MODERATELY SEVERE. |
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Name(s): |
Valencia, Julian, Author Thaxton, Terry, Committee Chair University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor |
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Type of Resource: | text | |
Date Issued: | 2011 | |
Publisher: | University of Central Florida | |
Language(s): | English | |
Abstract/Description: | Mild to Moderately Severe is an episodic memoir of a boy coming of age as a latch-key kid, living with a working single mother and partly raising himself, as a hearing impaired and depressed young adult, learning to navigate the culture with a strategy of faking it, as a nomad with seven mailing addresses before turning ten. It is an examination of accidental and cultivated loneliness, a narrative of a boy and later a man who is too adept at adapting to different environments, a reflection on relationships and popularity and a need for attention and love that clashes with a need to walk through unfamiliar neighborhoods alone. "Mild to moderately severe" is a diagnosed level of my hearing impairment. It is also the level of clinical depression I'm supposed to have been suffering since I was a preteen. It is also an answer to the question, "How was your day?" | |
Identifier: | CFE0003749 (IID), ucf:48770 (fedora) | |
Note(s): |
2011-05-01 M.F.A. Arts and Humanities, Department of English Masters This record was generated from author submitted information. |
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Subject(s): |
creative writing memoir creative nonfiction |
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Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0003749 | |
Restrictions on Access: | campus 2016-04-01 | |
Host Institution: | UCF |