[nabs-l] Feeling kind of left out

[Gerardo Corripio]

  HI guys
As I said in my intro, I like the idea of helping out other blind people 
in bettering their quality of life, thus I willingly in December, 
accepted the proposal of a "friend" (note the quotes; you'll see whhy in 
a bit), of going to a meeting in which forming a blindness association 
would be discussed; from the start, these guys had very ambitious 
projects (bringing in specialized blindness psychologists to  help in 
rehabilitation for instance) when I thought while the meeting 
progressed, isn't the goal of any blindness association, work with what 
one already has? I thought if I'm a psychologist, and blind, what better 
deal! So I gave an improvised speech of why I'd be a good candidate to 
fulfill the job of Psychologist, to which they said "yes" and I began 
getting excited; at last I'd have something productive to do! Also an 
alternative I gave in the meantime was to give English to the members, 
thus Yes I wouldn't get paid at the start, but nevertheless at least to 
fulfill a lifelong dream of helping out the blind psychologically and 
maybe culturally speaking!
OK so the weeks past by; I began looking for info that could possibly be 
of interest because it was or being a Psychologist or teaching english; 
I asked and asked because I wanted to know what i'd do, but they never 
gave an answer; now that I think about it, they made me feel like if I 
were a poor blind guy, and the Association wanted to teach me from the 
start things I already knew! They wanted to mold me to their ways, 
especially in wanting me to help standing around in the downtown plaza 
or square, and sell stuffed apples? I spoke out, and said if you guys 
want to have a blindness Association and promote stereotypes, well 
that's not my way of thinking; they'd be able to do activities more at 
my level like maybe giving talks and others, right? So the weeks past 
on, I kept on bugging, on OK while I wait for a response, what can I 
help out with? Since I'm good with Twitter, I offered my help in 
managing the Associaion'Associatino'Association's Twitter feed, they 
said no; until they got tired of not wanting to mold to their style, and 
I got kicked out, and unfortunately or fortunately, the association 
leaders, are going around telling everyone what a bad guy I am etc etc. 
Have you guys in your working of maybe volunteer, come across these 
people, that even though you have blindness skills in check, they make 
you feel kind of left out, or inferior? What a bad feeling!

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Gerardo J Corripio Flores Psicólogo, Terapéuta Reiki
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