There were lots of things I remembered while growing up as a little boy. A boy that wore happily and proudly a body hearing aid from almost the age of two years old to age seven. I took a trip down to memory lane over the last few weeks over a pile of my baby and boyhood pictures. I also got to see many of my old drawings and other artsy stuff I did. Read some of the John Tracy Clinic correspondence letters that were written to my parents. Got to see my past grades, state testing results and more. I even found my old State Champion soccer patch that my teammates and I won in a hard fought soccer game for state champ recognition in 1974 when I was in the 4th grade. It was my second state champion team in 1974 after winning a state championship soccer game in 1973 when I was in the 3rd grade.
As I went through my old stuff I recognized the fact that I liked to draw where many of my hand
drawn pictures were happy, memorable ones. Oftentimes with me wearing proudly my body hearing aid. The hand drawn and colored in picture you see above "Something about me" was a drawing about my missing tooth. I drew that picture when I was in the first grade at 7 or 8 years old during the 1972 - 1973 school year. It was part of an activity drawing of a story of mine with 8 pages of drawing made into a "book." My oral upbringing was certainly filled with memorable times where I was happy, outgoing and a fun guy to play with my friends, hearing and deaf, where I didn't let my body hearing aid stop me from having fun.
Something about me.
7 comments:
That's an interesting drawing. Detailed in its features...but oddly, with hands originating from the belt. Hmmm.
Looks like a band aid on one of your hand?
I used to draw a lot, and I used to paint. But, I have not done that for a while. My mom is an artist, and I think I am too. But, looking at your drawing, you have potential to do more, you should try. ;) Since your out there, try sketching a mountain.
Candy,
I do acrylic paintings once in awhile...more like once in a blue moon.
Interesting...that drawing seems to show that you clearly preferred or speaking to signing even back then. It shows your arms bound to your hips, but your mouth is wide open.
That or you are a bad artist :-).
lol
probably to show everyone that he has a missing teeth and is getting rich from it. That's somethin' to smile about. ;)
Actually I think this is a very well drawn picture for a first grader. It's funny that the Deaf people in here immediately noticed the short arms coming out of the hips. Myself, I zeroed right in on the face. That's probably because I've been reading lips for the past forty plus years. After reading the other comments, I had to go back and look at the arms. I wonder if Deaf kids who sign are more likely to draw big long arms with detailed fingers and little mouths? Interesting observations here.
For a first grade artist, you mastered the difficult drawing of hands actually. Hadn't quite got the hang of drawing arms yet. Most first-graders draw fingers stick-style.
But ya got them big arms now, heh. Iron man, yo!
The missing teeth in the smile had me laughing.
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