[Blindtlk] Eye Poking

[Kelby Carlson]

I can qest to the fact that hitting/pulling/scolding has not ever 
worked for me.  It just makes things worse, actually.

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Roberthansen1970 at gmail.com" <roberthansen1970 at gmail.com
>To: gwunder at earthlink.net, blindtlk at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:22:57 -0500 (CDT)
>Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Eye Poking

>Its amazing how people can use abuse to correct this behavior.  
It creates resentmrnt in people.
>-----Original Message-----
>Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 3:29:29 pm
>To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
>From: "Gary Wunder" <gwunder at earthlink.net
>Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Eye Poking

>My family hated the habbit and when I would do it, they'd hit my 
elbow.  This
>soon set the gratification into a competition with pain and 
disapproval, and
>the pain won out.

>I think some habits are hard to break, but there is an attitude 
we all share
>from time to time that this or that behavior is such a part of us 
that we
>aren't interested in changing it.  I have heard rocking 
acknowledged as a
>perfectly fine thing to do--it is what and who I am folks have 
said.  I guess
>we all draw the line in different places.  I occasionally snap my 
fingers for
>an echo location clue, while I know others who think this is not 
at all
>cool.

>We may cover some of this in the Monitor.

>Gary

>-----Original Message-----
>From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
[mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of Chasity Jackson
>Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 5:32 AM
>To: Blind Talk Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Eye Poking

>My close friend Terry who lives with me, is 59 and used to do it 
all the
>time...So much so that his left eye looks all sunken in...I often 
touch that
>area, just because it seems so peculiar to me...It's like a big 
hole there
>and the other eyeball is normal...I often joke with him that the 
hole is so
>deep that we could use it as a storage area for a few things 
instead of
>putting them in my purse.  Now that is definitely an 
exaggeration.  LOL.  But
>he knows what I mean and it's always been a joke between us.

>I myself have never done the eye poking thing...I've even gone 
through the
>motions of what other people say they do, just because I was 
curious if they
>just leaned on their hand and it felt comfortable or whatever the 
case may
>be...And it just feels annoying to me.  I don't even like the 
feeling of it,
>but I guess if it is something that you were born doing and 
you've done all
>your life, it probably feels natural and you don't even know 
you're doing
>it.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Alan Wheeler" <awheeler65 at windstream.net
>To: "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
>Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 5:41 AM
>Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Eye Poking


>>I catch myself doing it, when alone, and I am sitting at at my 
computer
>>desk.  I just lean on my hand and do it.  Not even sure why.


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
[mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>> On Behalf Of David Andrews
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 4:51 AM
>> To: Blind Talk Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Eye Poking

>> I am 57, and I find myself doing it when I am stressed also.  It 
is an
>> unconscious habit.  I have broken it mostly -- but not 100 
percent.

>> Maybe that is the best we can hope for!

>> Dave

>> At 06:43 PM 4/24/2011, you wrote:
>>>Hi,
>>>I'm 21, and I still have this problem from time to time.  I've 
gotten
>>>it under control enough that I don't do it in public at all 
anymore,
>>>but I notice I do it most when I am stressed or tired.  As I 
said, I
>>>almost always do it when I'm alone now, but if I slip up and do 
it
>>>with a family


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