[nabs-l] Feeling Inadequate After National Convention?

[rbacchus228 at gmail.com]

Hi Elizabeth you're not the only one feeling inadequate. Even though I did not get a chance to listen to the streaming of this year's convention I also feel inadequate when I hear various speeches from Nfb leaders. I feel inadequate when I r{{?"}}ead about people doing things for themselves and knowing I cannot do most things for myself. I am still working on my independent liuing skills. 

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> On Jul 12, 2014, at 5:29 PM, Elizabeth Mohnke via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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