[nabs-l] Feeling Inadequate After National Convention?

[Beth Taurasi]

I feel the same way as you, Liz.  I have some other disabling 
factors due to parental misconnduct or psychological abuse and I 
was devalued at home, at school, and in some work settings in 
Florida and Colorado.  It's easy for the NFB people to feel like 
blindness is the only people's disabling factor they can serve, 
but they fail to recognize that mental illnesses, chronic health 
issues due to abuse, and so on also play a huge role in how the 
people act, interact, and so on.  I'm worried as heck about my 
own future because the NFB says a lot about blind parents, but 
whuat about multidisabled intelligent beings who want to bring 
children in to this world?  80% of psychiatrically ill mothers 
have their babies removed from her. s Anyone heard of Buck V. 
Bell?  Carrie Buck had her kid removed from her all because she 
was epileptic and even though she was not blind, a disability was 
present anyway.  Then, she was sterilized.  I will not tolerate 
such actions to be taken against me or any person with or without 
multiple disabilities.
I side with you on this,
Beth

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Elizabeth Mohnke via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 17:29:51 -0400
Subject: [nabs-l] Feeling Inadequate After National Convention?

Hello All,

I hope everyone who attended the national convention this year 
had a great
time in Orlando. I understand attending a national convention can 
be a
rather inspiring event in the life of someone who is blind. 
However, as I
was listening to the online stream of the national convention 
this year, I
found myself feeling the complete opposite.

Instead of feeling inspired and hopeful for the future, I found 
myself
feeling rather defeated and inadequate. As I was listening to the 
speaches
from various leaders within the NFB, I found myself thinking how 
lucky they
must be that the only disability they have to deal with in their 
lives was
there blindness. I was thinking about how easy it must be fore 
someone who
is only blind, and how more difficult it is for someone who has 
another
disability in addition to being blind.

Now perhaps this may be a bit too personal to post to the email 
list, but I
was just curious if anyone else has ever felt this way, and if 
so, what did
you do to deal with these kinds of feelings? I would greatly 
appreciate
hearing from anyone who has ever dealt with this kind of issue 
before.

Thanks,
Elizabeth

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