[nabs-l] family's misunderstandings of the real world

[Beth Taurasi]

Hi, all.
I was recently Facebook chatting my cousin and she accused me of doing 
the following things:
1. Obsession with my latest boyfriend, who she might have a problem with 
because he is blind.
2. She said I should be open to dating sighted people, yes, Arielle, you 
are married to a sighted man, but not all sighted people like a blind 
woman, and statistically it isn't true that sighted people will go out 
with blind women.
3. She says that blind people can do things, but she says I don't 
understand the real world.  What? I told her I do understand the real 
world, I pay my bills, I save money, I work with money. I don't pay 
taxes because in my understanding of the so-called "real world", SSI is 
not taxable, and finding a job for me is hard because I am dually disabled.
I need help also convincing her that parenting is possible even with my 
particular disabilities.  I've tried referring her to NFB's parenting 
without Sight thingies, and she doesn't seem interested. I have a lot of 
friends on here so I'm posing this question.  Also, she says I should 
move back to Florida, but after all this stuff I've been through back 
there, I said to her, "No.  I've got all I need in Denver."
Please help.
Beth