[nabs-l] When a loved one goes sighted

[Jorge Paez]

Hombertu,
I agree.
I personally wouldn't choose to be sighted for one simple reason.
I've learned everything without sight.
If I regained sight I'd have to relearn everything.
Sure I had sight but lost it when I was so young I can't remember,
so really I can say I've been blind all my life,
and sight would just make it too difficult.

Jorge


On Apr 20, 2011, at 8:55 PM, humberto wrote:

> First of all, If I was to become sighted, I would not do it. I myself wouldn't want to become sighted because of 2 reasons:
> 1.  since I am blind since birth, I will feel so weird being sighted; just like a sighted person  had been born with sight and feeling weird when they become blind. The world would be so different and I cannot even explain how different since I've never ever been sighted, and don't want to be.
> 2.  I am blind, I am the way I am and I still want to be blind since I am born blind. Blindness is just an ordinary thing for me. Even my mom has gotten me to pray and get me to ask doctors if one day I will "see" but that was when I was little, and looking back, I am so * GUILTY * that my mom did this and told me that I will see soon in a quite convincing way and now I think, and since coming to the United States and attending NFB related camps and meetings such as the NFB youth Slam, I see my own philosophy of blindness, which is that blindness is something ordinary and normal and nothing to be neglected or regretted about.
> Just my 20 dollars for what it's worth, and, great question.
> 
> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Jamie Principato <blackbyrdfly at gmail.com
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>> Date sent: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 04:56:20 -0400
>> Subject: [nabs-l] When a loved one goes sighted
> 
>> Hi, all.
> 
>> I was thinking recently about all of those "what to do what a 
> loved one goes
>> blind" articles and pamphlets I've seen, and how often I hear 
> people talk
>> about the reactions of friends and family and their community 
> when they lost
>> their vision. I think there have even been comments on this list 
> about
>> sighted friends for some reason thinking they have to treat us 
> differently,
>> or can't relate to us as well because we're blind.
> 
>> My question is this. How do you think the blind would respond in 
> similar
>> situations, say, if a friend among a netork of fellow blind 
> students
>> suddenly went sighted? As medical technology advances rapidly, it 
> is
>> becoming more and more possible to correct a number of causes of 
> both
>> congenital and later onset blindness. I know there are different 
> opinions on
>> matters like this in other disability groups, and the question 
> really got me
>> thinking.
> 
>> I'd love to hear peoples' thoughts!
> 
>> -Jamie
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