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Myklebust also saw a reliance among deaf leaders "on admiration more than on organization and direction of activities he claimed that these same leaders were "more immature emotionally" and that all deaf, whether leaders or not, were "more aggressive and competitive" They had 'greater emotional problems" he warned he observed that deafness "feminizes the male and masculinizes the female" He determined that inferences could "only be made with caution" about the "intricate relationship between deafness and psychosexual adjustment" Some test scores, he said, indicated "unusually high incidence indicating maladjustment other scales were "indicative of psychotic behavior" He noted that "the deviant emotional and social behavior reported in studies of deaf children had persisted into adulthood, even among those who made a successful societal adjustment" and that "the characteristic pattern was one of being rigid, concrete, and socially and emotionally immature."
Myklebust provided four chapters of such "provocative data" Toward the middle of the book, a page text replete with graphs, charts, tables, and writing samples, Myklebust asserted that, "despite the fact that the deaf showed greater emotional disorder than the hard of hearing, the deaf seemed largely unaware of deafness as a handicap. In this regard they lacked insight into the significance of hearing" Myklebust then begrudgingly concluded that deafness "does not cause mental illness" but that "the personality pattern which emerges is a feeling of severe isolation and detachment with aggressive, almost desperate attempts to compensate and thereby maintain interpersonal contacts."30
We are told in the section on the evaluation of drawings done by deaf children compared with drawings done by normal children that Myklebust himself developed a modified version of the Drawing of the Human Figure Test especially "for use in the
National Study of the psychology of deafness" Myklebust found that deaf children drew larger figures than "normal" children;
that their drawings were "more naive, less mature, and more primitive perceptually that they portrayed "the male figure in a more frail, effeminate manner that deaf children in residential schools drew noses with nostrils more often than

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