[nabs-l] Feeling Inadequate After National Convention?

Sun Jul 13 16:38:54 UTC 2014

Dear
Elizabeth, I myself am not a member of the NFB, and like you, I to have a 
secondary disability. I have CP. If you wish, you may email me off list at:
joltingjacksandefur at gmail.com
Or you may add me to skype at:
smallistbaby1979
RJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elizabeth Mohnke via nabs-l" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
To: "'Carly Mihalakis'" <carlymih at comcast.net>; "'National Association of 
Blind Students mailing list'" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2014 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Feeling Inadequate After National Convention?


> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Carly 
> Mihalakis
> via nabs-l
> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2014 10:13 AM
> To: tyler at tysdomain.com; National Association of Blind Students mailing
> list; Beth Taurasi; National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Feeling Inadequate After National Convention?
>
> 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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>>Ty
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>>that dares not reason is a slave.
>>
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