[nabs-l] Feeling Inadequate After National Convention?

Sun Jul 13 16:28:32 UTC 2014

Hello Carly,

I am honestly not quite sure how my post about feeling defeated and
inadequate turned into a thread about not being able to become a blind
parent. My post had absolutely nothing to do with this. The last time I
checked, this was an email list for blind students and not blind parents. As
I look around this organization, all I seem to see are leaders who have been
successful at being a college student. They are either succeeding in their
classes, are successful college graduates, or have pursued the career of
their choice. This makes me feel inadequate because there is the possibility
none of these things will ever happened to me in my own life. And I guess
learning to embrace this possibility in my life is rather difficult for me.

Warm regards,
Elizabeth

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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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