[nfb-talk] Wanting to See

Star Gazer pickrellrebecca at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 13:23:13 UTC 2017


			Yes, exactly this. 

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Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Wanting to See

> On Jan 5, 2017, at 9:09 PM, Munawar Bijani via nfb-talk
<nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I'm sure everyone who says they never do are simply too afraid to admit
it.

And I'm sure that you're wrong, because sweeping generalizations like this
generally are. 

Sure it's normal to want things we can't have sometimes, whether it's sight
or something else. Personally, I don't really think, for my life anyway,
sight is any more desirable than other things, and perhaps less desirable
than some. That you may want it doesn't mean you're damaged, but that I,
generally speaking, could take it or leave it, doesn't mean I'm hiding some
deep seated fear of admitting I'm somehow imperfect (a thing that I admit at
least daily). 

Oh sure, I'd love some of the conveniences that sight would bring me, but
that doesn't mean that I necessarily want sight, nor does it mean that I'm
somehow in denial because I don't. When I was a kid, I would tell people, oh
sure, I wish I could see, but I don't think I really understood what that
meant. I understood that other people thought it was a desirable thing, and
I probably got some sense that some people believed that I was somehow less
fortunate, or damaged, or broken, or something. Who knows? I was a kid. As I
got older though and became more comfortable in my skin, and gained more of
an understanding of the world and my place in it, not that I have reached
anything approaching perfect understanding of either, I also grew to
understand that sight wasn't a huge deal. My life was, and is, fulfilling
already, problems and difficulties notwithstanding. Everybody's got those.
And I'm really not convinced that a sudden onset of sightedness would
measurably improve my life; it might even be more trouble than blessing.
That someone else feels differently doesn't mean s/he is a "bad blind
person" or "maladjusted". That I feel the way I do doesn't mean I'm in
denial. 
--
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: 814-860-3194 
Mobile: 814-431-0962
Email: buddy at brannan.name




> On Jan 5, 2017, at 9:09 PM, Munawar Bijani via nfb-talk
<nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> You're human. It's normal to yearn for things. I'd give almost anything to
see. And it's ok to feel sorry for yourself. I'm sure everyone who says they
never do are simply too afraid to admit it. Being blind sucks ass, and just
because we've adapted doesn't mean it sucks any less or that we have to like
being blind.
> 
>> On Jan 5, 2017, at 8:30 PM, Jen via nfb-talk <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> As I posted on my "driverless cars" thread, I'm totally blind from birth.
>> 
>> I have always been interested in visual things. They include
>> 
>> * pictures, especially pictures of pictures
>> * colors
>> * the sky
>> * videos
>> * light and the various ways it can be manipulated, like with shadows and
>> optical illusions
>> * rainbows
>> 
>> ... and so many others.
>> 
>> Now here's my question. I wish I could see sometimes. Is this normal for
a
>> blind person? I'm not consumed by these feelings. I don't feel sorry for
>> myself for being blind, and I have incorporated alternative techniques
into
>> my life. So personally, I consider myself as a well-adjusted blind
person.
>> At the same time though, I wouldn't want my sight back because, since
I've
>> never had it, everything would be too much clutter for me. Also, I have
my
>> own pictures of visual things in my mind's eye, and I wouldn't want to
ruin
>> them.
>> 
>> My family and friends, who are sighted, tell me it is normal to have
these
>> feelings. But it would be great to get some feedback from my fellow
>> Federationists.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> 
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