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<p><font size="+1">hi,I hope you are enjoying your time at the
hellen keller national center.I hope you learn much.</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/18/2017 1:03 PM, maurice mines via
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Good afternoon everyone, Mme. second vice president, I can’t agree
with you more. Without going into it let’s just say that I have
not in the past and I’m certainly not now a fan of the
professionals running a duck blind person’s life. As you said
Janice it’s up to us to run our lives, I guess this really does
strike at the heart of Vienna the model live the life we want. But
more than just quote a me to post, I hope when we gather we talk
about strategies to say to the professionals politely, but firmly,
that we should live the life we want. Because I think that is a
skill? That does not have a one-size-fits-all answer. I am a
computer person so live a very hard time dealing with quote
professionals on quote because sometimes I just wonder if they
deal with me as a person, or do they deal with me the way their
textbook said? Or deal with me in some way that some government
regulation says they are supposed to deal with me?
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professional does, is based on what the professional bay Thanks
about those whom they are serving/working with. Let me finish my
thought this way, if the person involved I stated they want XYZ
for instance but the professionals says MY inexorably is best
for you, who carries the day? Here’s hoping we work on talking
about the empowerment piece of it? And not so much what the
professionals think, and/or do. I guess because I’ve experienced
way too much social worker textbook based professionalism
lately. But let me also state for the record here, not all
social work folks are all bad, all the time either. They have to
deal with a very wide variety of people so blindly blasting them
is also not a good thing either because I’ve seen it too often
at times and Federation gatherings that I have been out. I think
it’s been said at one point with great collective action/power,
should also comes great responsibility of knowing when, and
where to pick one’s battles. I can attribute that piece of
advice to one of my past and probably at times probably current
Federation mentors in a sense, through the statement I just
made. More to the point the statement that I just repeated from
Diane McGeorge. I just say he was definitely the teacher, I am
at the times she’d mentioned this to me I was definitely the
student. Yes her lesson has come home to roost many times over.
So as we talk at convention about all of these things it’s
probably helpful for us to really stop and think about that when
we all get going. Because we probably have quite a few stories
about situations like this. How many solutions do we really
have, and does one so answe hour selves., And many different
ways. There</div>
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<div class="">Sincerely Maurice Mines.</div>
<div class="">note my comments above have been dictated to the
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<div class=""> My amateur radio call sign is, kd0iko.</div>
<div class=""> PS just so that current low listers know , I am
currently attending the Helen Keller national Center. So
hopefully by comments I received well see you all in Orlando.</div>
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It bothers me as well. I want the DeafBlind to advocate
for themselves and often family members are those that
impose barriers to communication and the DeafBlind
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<div class="">Does it bother anyone else that this
flyer is so totally directed towards families of DB
without even lip service to including DB people and
they being involved in directing and leading this
kind of activity? I know some family are good allies
and some DB people are small children, but the whole
tone of this and even the website is not even
inclusive of DB people themselves. All directed
towards families and professionals. It makes me
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