[humanser] adjustment to blindness

[Michael Abell]

Hello Sandra,
	I like the way that Tuttle used the stories of the blind to reference the adjustment pilgrimage. It was in this book that I first realized that those that were born blind were in need of adjustment as well. I never thought about the fact that individuals born without sight one day come to a realization that they  are not the same as other kids. Parents do a good job of trying to "normalize" our existence that we are not even aware that there are those that have sight.
	Thanks for your comments and kind words.

Regards,

Michael “Big Dog” Abell

Helping individuals to find their eyes in the dark.
(480) 369-0805



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From: humanser [mailto:humanser-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sandra Streeter via humanser
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Subject: [humanser] adjustment to blindness

Mike, thanks for the ref to Tuttle—as a person totally blind from birth, I took the Hadley course anyway, and even I benefited! “Shouldn’t be all enjoy the night,” indeed! I was a disturbing news story locally the other day, about a mom’s efforts to fundraise to help her daughter, who has Leber’s; it made blindness sound so-o-o unnecessarily tragic, and really set my teeth on edge; of course, the journalists were all gah-gah! It is hard to win the war on that thinking, when the # of sighted folks is, of course, greater than ours, and their voice seems to be at a raging-higher volume... Keep the faith, everyone, as I will.



Sandra
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
(Les Miserables--the musical)
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