[blparent] Independence

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Robert has a good point.  A training center might be right for some people, 
but if you can't get that kind of intensive training, you can learn a lot 
because you want to, or because you have to.  Could you propose to your 
parents that you take on the responsibility of cooking dinner for everyone 
two or three nights a week?  There are lots of cookbooks and easy recipes 
out there, and even cooking e-mail lists with other blind users.  Could you 
take on one bathroom to clean or one room to vacuum, so you get practice? 
Might be a way to start.


Jo Elizabeth

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, 
unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into 
advance."--Franklin D. Roosevelt

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From: "Robert Shelton" <rshelton1 at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 9:37 AM
To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [blparent] Independence

> What you really need are some skills.  RP is nasty because you naturally 
> try
> to use the techniques that worked for you when your vision was better. 
> It's
> all about independence, and the knowledge of how to function as a blind
> person will give you power over your own life.  It will enable you to deal
> with your parents as an adult equal rather than a dependent.
>
> I do not know what is available where you live, but NFB has many excellent
> resources to help you find the training that you need, as well as how to
> deal with the state.  Don't put it off.  Learn what's available and easy
> first, and then move on to a residential program.
>
> As a teen, newly blind, I got excellent O&M training and other basic 
> skills.
> I never did go through a residential program (other than living as a
> batchelor, but I wish I had.  It is a lot easier to learn from blind 
> people
> who have been living independently as opposed to having to figure out each
> and every little trick for yourself by trial and error.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
>
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