[nabs-l] Feeling Inadequate After National Convention?

[Carly Mihalakis]

Good morning, Elizabeth,

Personally, I was bienucleated (had both ocular organs surgically 
removed) after having retinal blastoma as an infant. And, I have come 
into a realization that,  without so much as a shaddow of a doubt, I 
want no part of synthetic means of artificially tweeking with nature, 
such that I, too, can proliferate this genetic cespool of mine, just 
so someone with genes ill fit for proliferation, can conceive of  and 
then carry to term their own kid! Personally, I think I have come to 
realize that, the universe doesn't mean for me to prolifferate my 
genetics and I accept this. For, the world seems to becoming strange, 
beyond my wildest dreams and seems not to be a welcoming place for 
any creature, let alone a fruit of my corrupt loins. Just some 
meditation on the question for people to take, or leave, as they see fit.
for today, Car


perportion and made the thread all about you, again. I don't think 
that was the point, just that the speeches and people doing so much 
makes people feel like they're not doing enough, or as much as they 
could. How much one can actually accomplish is up to someone, and 
only -you- know if you've not done enough.
>On 7/12/2014 8:25 PM, Beth Taurasi via nabs-l wrote:
>>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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