[Blindtlk] Eye Poking

Mon Apr 25 12:21:18 UTC 2011

Hi Chris!

My goodness, it is great to see you here. I agree with Chasity, you are extremely articulate for a 7th grader. I have also been very impressed by the thoughtful messages that Kelby sends for someone of his age group. It is wonderful to have young people on the list. I have known Chris since he was just a little thing, about 2 years old. Well, I have known his mom. He may not know me from Adam LOL.

Anyway, as to Kelby's question, I also have the same problem do to the prosthetics, like Chris said. I am 48 years old, and still tend to revert to it at home at times, though  I don't do it at all in public, and if my eyes start bothering me and I feel that I need to get rid of some of the discharge, I usually go to the ladies room and try to take care of the problem. If I am here in my office alone, I might just take a napkin and wipe my eyes. I do appreciate Chris' suggestion about the ointment though. I think I am going to try that.

I think that a lot of blind people, whatever their eye conditions, do have this eye poking problem. This thread puts me in mind of something a very wise, very no nonsense and poised teacher once said to me back in high school. I forget what the actual subject of the conversation was, but she made the point to the class that: "at home you can scratch anything that itches." Then she went on to say that this phrase was just a very crude way of saying that our home is our turf, and we can pretty much let our hair down and do whatever, (as long as it is legal LOL) but being out in public demands a certain decorum.

If you are certain that you are no longer doing this in public, you may not need to stress over it too much, unless you just want too. If it is hard to refrain when in public or with other people, then there is likely a need to seriously address the issue. There are quite a few things that sighted people might do at home, that a person with good manners wouldn't do in public.

Diane Graves
Civil Rights Specialist
Indiana Civil Rights Commission
Alternative Dispute Resolutions Unit
317-232-2647

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George Washington Carver

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-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Chris Nusbaum
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 6:59 PM
To: Blind Talk Mailing List; kelbycarlson at usfamily.net
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Eye Poking

Hi, Kelby and list.

First of all, I'm a new member of the list (just signed up 
yesterday) so I guess I should introduce myself.  I'm Chris 
Nusbaum, and I'm a totally blind seventh grade student here in 
Maryland.  I'm also an active NFB member and attend many state 
conventions as well as some of the programs they sponsor, most 
recently being the Leadership and Advocacy in Washington (LAW) 
program, which I had a great time at! Now to Kelby's question 
about eye poking, just so I know, do you have prostetic eyes? If 
so, I do as well, and sometimes I'm guilty of the same habit.  
Usually my eyes are uncomfortable because they get goops on my 
eyes (aka what sighted people call "sleep" that they get in their 
eyes in the morning.) If you do, keep some kind of eye ointment 
with you all the time and when you get goopies and your eyes 
start to feel uncomfortable, try putting it on your eyes and 
rubbing it in.  They should feel better then and you won't have 
to worry about the poking thing.  However, if you don't have 
prostetics, I'm not sure.  In that case, hopefully someone else 
on the list will be able to help.  Hope this helps and let me 
know if you have any questions!

 Chris Nusbaum

"A loss of sight, never a loss of vision!" (Camp Abilities motto)

----- Original Message -----
From: Kelby Carlson <kelbycarlson at usfamily.net
To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:39:31 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [Blindtlk] Eye Poking

Dear List,

I have a really rather embarrassing problem that I am loath to
admit to others who are blind.  But it's getting a bit worse and
I've never seemed to be able to totally get rid of it.  Since I
was a very small child, I've had the habbit of eye pressing or
eye poking (apparently those with Leybers tend to have this
sometimes, from what I know.) I am a senior in high school now
and have been able to get rid of the habbit for extended periods
of time, but it's always come back.  This year (I think somewhat
due to stress) it is back again.  It seems like my eyes want some
sort of stimulation, and feel kind of dry/uncomfortable a lot of
the time.  It doesn't look great and I can usually stop myself in
public.  Have any of you dealt with this problem? I feel sort of
ashamed of it, so any help from any of you on how to stop/how to
maybe make my eyes feel less uncomfortable would be sincerely
apprreciated.

I hope you are all having a happy Easter (assuming you celebrate
it of course.)

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