[blindkid] Age-Appropriate and isolation?

[Gerardo Corripio]

  HI guys
I've got hopefully and interesting topic for discussion, raised by my 
recalling a phenomenon of mine which I don't know if it's normal? I was 
almost always isolated as a kid; I never went outside to play with the 
neighborhood kids; hardly ever went to friends' houses after school etc; 
the afternoons I remember spent at home (apart from doing homework) 
playing by myself, tape recording myself etc. Music I liked Spanish 
Children's music until I was about thirteen or fourteen when on a trip 
here to Mexico to see relatives, an aunt introduced me to young adult 
music, and several years later, thanks to my sister who at the time was 
ten or eleven and I was almost let's see eighteen or nineteen years old, 
months from graduating from high school, I began with her, to get 
familiar with English Pop young adult music!
AS for TV, until I was maybe in SIXTH grade, I used to like     PBS 
programs like 123 Contact, Reading Rainbow, and don't laugh when I say 
Mr. Rogers Neighborhood! Imagine the looks I got when in middle school 
told my friends I liked those things on TV especially Mr. Rogers! How 
would I suppose to know that this wasn't age-appropriate? I learned what 
they watched, and began watching kind of age-appropriate programs etc etc.
After my little minibiography of my early years and how 
age-unappropriate I was, and because I wouldn't like for future 
generations of blind kids to grow up this way, I'd encourage you parents 
to as early as possible, via the NFB especially, seek role models! If my 
parents would have known of the     NFB, I sometimes think how different 
my life would have been! Also if I would have had brothers or sisters 
near my age, also, but OK things happened as they did, right?
Any other viewpoints on this subject, or experiences you as parents 
might have had with your blind children?

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Gerardo J Corripio Flores Psicólogo, Terapéuta Reiki
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