[Colorado-Talk] Thoughts on the Motto Live the Life You Want

Tue Jan 7 19:36:54 UTC 2020

Jenny,

     I appreciate and relate to what you are saying.  I'm very well educated, and could have a career in Mediation, the field I have training in.  I have the will, but with my medical issues, I'm just not reliable from day to day.  I even hesitated taking on doing the DeafBlind development for the same reason.  There is no predictability to my health and how I will feel from day to day.  My experience is that people who don't live with and struggle with multiple disabilities and medical conditions have a difficult time relating.  And a hard time understanding why you aren't out there doing things.  I get that they don't have my experience of living with a body that doesn't function all that well.  Some days I have a fair amount of energy, and I can get a lot of things accomplished.  Some days, not so much.  I do my best to deal with that on a daily basis.  I'm okay with the fact that managing my syndrome and the medical challenges it brings is my fulltime job.  I wish I could be out there being a successful Mediator, but I live with what life has dealt me.  I know I'm doing what's best for me, but it can be difficult and in some ways lonely not having people understand or be supportive of what I need for me.  And I think that's what I'm hearing you say.  That people need to be acknowledged and celebrated for who they are, and what they are able to accomplish.
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From: Colorado-Talk <colorado-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Jenny Perdue via Colorado-Talk
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Subject: Re: [Colorado-Talk] Thoughts on the Motto Live the Life You Want

I love this if you have the will to do it thing. I have tried to work at shelters for 20 years, 20.

You can have the will to do as much as you want to. But it doesn’t mean that people have to Let you do it. I’m glad you’re able to work with animals. I really really am. You and I are one of the few.

I’m not talking about rescues, I’m talking about going in and dealing with those animals that no one else can.

This thing about if you have the will to do it you can doesn’t work. In fact, that’s sort of the fallacy that I see in some people. Yes, I have the will to work, my body doesn’t therefore I can’t. I have the will to go volunteer places, well, great, if they don’t discriminate automatically because I think you can’t do it because you’re blind.

Desire and will or two different things. I have them both. So it’s not just the will. That’s the kind of attitude within the NFB that I can’t stand.

Instead of preaching about militance and how we shouldn’t be babied. How about working with people that aren’t as fortunate as you. How about helping us learn how to advocate, giving us resources, instead of just preaching and being militant and acting like we want to hand out.

Jenny

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> On Jan 6, 2020, at 3:14 PM, Eric Calhoun via Colorado-Talk <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Guess what: I volunteer with animal rescue.  It can be done, it the 
> will to do it.  I rescue German shepherds, who are great for the blind.
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