[Faith-talk] church youth group

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Hi,
I have found that creating humor and breaking the ice really helped me in the dorm as well, and all throughout life. Humor is the best way to get sighted people comfortable with your blindness by far LOLOLOL!
David Moore


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From: debby via Faith-Talk
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 11:20 PM
To: Ana Martinez via Faith-Talk
Cc: debby
Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] church youth group

Hi Ana, sometimes humor helps. The more comfortable you feel in your own skin the more at ease you will be a# to make others. Remember that probably none of the kids in that group have been around anybody who's blind before. Keep joining conversations, and use humor. Sometimes I make jokes about sightlings needing light, or being light dependent. It makes people laugh and breaks the ice. Let me tell you a short story--this really happened to me. When I was in college, it was very awkward in the dorm. People didn't talk to me, and it was very awkward. One night I got a little mixed up and one of the girls showed me to my room door. She showed me the light switch and actually turned the light on. Su.enly it occurred to her that I might not need the light. Su.enly she and I buhst out laughing. Doors opened and we kept repeating the story. Pretty soon everybody on my floor was standing in the hall laughing. That broke the ice and we all started talking to each other. Best of luck, and don't give up yet. I'll be praying.    Debby

On Nov 13, 2016 6:40 PM, Ana Martinez via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> hey guys, hope everyone had a good weekend. I have a question and I'm not sure if it's OK to ask it in here, so in my church there is a youth group for college age students. I've been involved with it for the last 2 months, I've done some social activities with the group and I go to mass with them every Sunday. for some reason I feel that I don't belong there though, nobody talks to me unless I talk to them first. and whenever I try to join a conversation everyone gets quiet and I feel that they are stareing at me, has any of you had this experience? how can I fix this? thanks☺️
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