[nabs-l] Feeling Inadequate After National Convention?

[Anjelina Cruz]

Hi all,
Elizabeth, the reason why I said you are bold is because you were willing to be vulnerable on such a pubblic list. It's not easy to share frustrations.
I may not be able to 100 percent relate to how you are feeling, but I can empathize with you. I have a friend who is deaf-blind. She is unable to cross streets without assistance from sighted passerbys or a sign. Even though she cannot complete all tasks exactly the way someone who is blind would, she's found ways to either work around her additional disability or realize her limitations. I'm not at all saying this is the same for you.
I hope in the NFB there is a place for everyone no matter their disability.


Anjelina
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On Sun, 7/13/14, Beth Taurasi via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Feeling Inadequate After National Convention?
 To: "Elizabeth Mohnke" <lizmohnke at hotmail.com>, "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
 Date: Sunday, July 13, 2014, 12:25 AM
 
 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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