[Faith-talk] developmental delay among the blind

[Maureen Pranghofer]

Hi
I was also chosen last, alone much of the time as a child and I was 
partially sighted but didn't have enough vision to be like sighted kids and 
with physical disabilities as well I stuck out like a sore thumb.  It wasn't 
until I was found by the LOrd when I was 16 and was contemplating suicide 
that I started very gradually to be not so full of insecurity and self pity.
I used to see myself always as the victum which was not helped by remarks 
from people saying "Oh you poor thing."  I'm so glad that is in the past.


-----Original Message----- 
From: Brandon A. Olivares via Faith-talk
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 11:22 AM
To: justin williams ; Faith-talk,for the discussion of faith and religion
Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] developmental delay among the blind

It doesn’t help we often don’t have as many opportunities to socialize. I 
don’t know how it was for everyone else here, but I know in grade school, I 
was often chosen last for groups, simply because others didn’t know what to 
make of me. For me I didn’t really start becoming comfortable in social 
situations until college, when I joined a fraternity of all things. They 
helped me to loosen up and treated me like just another person.

> On Dec 30, 2014, at 11:35 AM, justin williams via Faith-talk 
> <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> A lot of it is putting the child in position to experience the world 
> through
> their other senses.  If I am sitting in a group of people, and something
> totally visual is on a TV screen, and I don't react to it, I can come off 
> as
> developmentally delayed; if the child doesn't stack the blocks, because 
> they
> don't see the other kids doing it, they may come off developmentally 
> delayed
> even with no mental disabilities.  Anytime you are not quite on what
> everyone else is doing, it can seem like that.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Faith-talk [mailto:faith-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Debby
> Phillips via Faith-talk
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 9:39 AM
> To: Timothy Clark Ministries; Faith-talk, for the discussion of faith and
> religion; programmer2188 at gmail.com; faith-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] developmental delay among the blind
>
> From the time I was very small, I was taught to look in people's direction
> when they talked, to reach out and shake hands, things like that.  Plus I
> grew up with brothers and I had to be rough and tumble to get along with
> them.  Plus I tried and still try to be observant.  I am blind from birth,
> too.  A lot of my life I have been mainly with sighted folks.  But in the
> last couple years, it's been more with blind folks.  I think that perhaps 
> we
> can't really generalize about blind from birth versus becoming
> blind later on.  It really depends on so many factors.
> Blessings,    Debby and Neena
>
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