[Colorado-Talk] Thoughts on Living the Life You Want

[Jenny Perdue]

No one‘s asking to be babied. I’m just asking to be just as celebrated as someone who’s bringing in thedoe 

That’s not called Coddling or handholding.

The militant stuff from the NFB is a reason that a lot of people don’t join. Instead of being militant. Why don’t we give a hand up instead of telling people what they should do and they’re not giving them any help to do it.

Some of us for neurological reasons cannot be under sleep shade. Yet, the singers don’t care. Some of us have physical issues and need to concentrate on what we need to concentrate on as far as the things that we need to learn. It’s not one size fit oh. But it seems like if you can’t to sleep shade, and you can’t learn to make a meal for 60 people. You don’t get the opportunity to go to the centers.

Yes, you have learned to advocate, you have learned to be militant, you have learned all those things. Some of us have had to figure out everything on their own.

some of us got stuck in the boonies with abusive parents that could beat you in the front yard and nobody would care.

I’m sorry, I didn’t have time to be militant and fight for my rights. I was happy if I didn’t get a beat down once a week. Does anybody take that into consideration, do you take that into consideration. I had no advocate, I had to do everything on my own. A lot of us have.

So instead of telling us what we should do I’m just leaving us her own devices. If you’re successful. How about giving a hand up instead of telling us what we should do and how we should do it in a militant way.

Besides, I’m sorry, but being militant and beating people over the head with what we in the NFB think we deserve. Does not make the blind community look any better. In fact, it makes us look entitled, rude, and disrespectful. No one has to count out to us. Even though we’re blind. And in the NFB.

We fight so hard for legislature for accessible appliances, etc. Do we fight for those of us who cannot physically work but still need services. Can’t we fight to change the legislature that says that if you don’t work or go to school you can’t get help. Why don’t we fight for people who need this to. Not just the big cases that make a splash.

Why don’t we fight for minimum wage payments via Social Security disability for those of us who cannot work legitimately.

Why don’t we fight to be able to get certain equipment without all the hassle in the world. You can advocate for yourself all you want to. When the government does with the government does, and you have a legitimate need to be reliant on that. And you don’t even make minimum-wage when everybody knows that equipment for us is really expensive. Not covered by insurance. Oh, that’s something we can be militant about. Try to get entrance companies to have to cover our equipment, just like the cover wheelchairs and hearing aids.



Jenny

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> On Jan 6, 2020, at 2:56 PM, Eric Calhoun via Colorado-Talk <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I am compelled to respond on living the life I want.  If you are working,
> you are possessing skills that help you work.  NFB doesn't see that in
> everybody.  I am not going to work because someone tells me that I need to,
> I want to.  Same with blind training centers'  I am further along than most
> folks, and I don't need to rock climb or river raft, I've done this as a
> child.  Anyone who knows Braille Institute or the Foundation for the Junior
> Blind (Wayfinder Family Services for the Blind) knows that they don't need
> to be coddled, belittled, or made fun of.  At nearly 46, (birthday is March
> 21,) I've been taught by NFB to be militant, self-reliant, and
> self-sufficient.  I will not hold someone's hand and coddle them; I will
> give them tough love.  When I went to the Utah State Convention, I saw 3
> things: (1) blind people in action, (2) empowerment, and (3) a chance to go
> beyond blindness.  My Federation friends, NFB can only give us pointers, we
> must shine, not let people baby us.  You do not have to work to live the
> life you want.  You must grow, you must pray, you must live.
> 
> Living The Life I Want,
> 
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