[stylist] question

Tue Mar 24 21:16:21 UTC 2009

What you say here reminds me of the passage in the Bible where Jesus heals the blind man, and he compares the people to trees when describing what he sees.

In Christ,
Alan

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From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
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> Restoring sight to a person who never had it doesn't work anyway. The part
> of the brain which makes sense of visual information has no need to develop,
> so it doesn't bother. If I, having been blind all my life, suddenly got my
> vision, I wouldn't know what I was looking at, maybe I never would be able
> to make sense of it. At best I'd have to go through a similar transition to
> someone who was fully sighted but suddenly lost their vision. At worst I'd
> not be able to handle the senseless visual information, and would opt to be
> totally blind again.   
> 
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> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of helene ryles
> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:37 AM
> To: NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [stylist] question
> 
> John,
> I feel the same way as you regarding any sort of animal based research
> promising people cures. I'm ok non animal based research for things like
> cancer, but whatever the reason for reacherch, if rehabilitation came first
> (as it should do) we would be 'curing' most differantly abled people's
> problems.
> By promising a cure we are actually holding people back, and we are hurting
> millions of animals in the process.
> 
> A sighted woman once said to me "I wish you could see" so I explained
> exactly why I chose to accept my blindness. I offended another'friend'
> by not being interested in a coclear implant. Right now some people are
> having a hard job undersanding why I arn't going for a 3rd guide dog.
> 
> I think we go too far to correct a blind child's sight. Even when it's a
> losing battle and the sight is likely to go anyway eventually.
> People need to know when to stop trying to stop sometning that isn't really
> broke.
> 
> Helene
> 
> On 24/03/2009, John Lee Clark <johnlee at clarktouch.com> wrote:
>> Lori:
>>
>> I love the words blind and deaf.  I abhor anything with impaired in it.
>>
>> Although the definition of blind may say one who cannot see, and 
>> that's a negative description, we still have the opportunity to 
>> neutralize the word itself and have it convey something else entirely, 
>> into something that's cool.  Same with deaf.  We can take it and turn 
>> it around, and associate it with culture, pride, ASL, all sorts of great
> and positive things.
>>
>> But you can't neutralize and turn around a term like sight impaired.  
>> Tthat term does two very bad, bad, bad things.  First, it implies that 
>> sight is the ideal, that it's right, and what we SHOULD have, and that 
>> if we don't have it, we SHOULD want it.  This is society talking, "Sight
> is better."
>>
>> Second, the term implies that we're broken or we're short of the 
>> ideal, or we've fallen from the grace of what society says is normal.  
>> This is very bad, bad, bad.
>>
>> Does NFB merely "prefer" the word blind?  It shouldn't.  it should 
>> embrace it absolutely.
>>
>> John
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