[stylist] question

Tue Mar 24 22:48:42 UTC 2009

I think it is refreshing to have someone who thinks that deafblindness
is no big deal.  Because so many people seem to think it is some sort
of tragedy. Yes I do spend time crawling on the floor hunting for
objects I've dropped. Having petit mal epilepsy as an added extra
doesn't help either.

I don't believe being deafblind makes me any better or any worse then
anyone else. It just means I have more challanges then non disabled
people, but I wouldn't even want to be a non disabled person. That
would be so boring. I'm happy the way I am.

I identify myself as a deafblind Vegan.  I chose a vegan life style. I
also chose to accept my deafblindness rather then waste time hunting
for a cure.

Helene

On 24/03/2009, Judith Bron <jbron at optonline.net> wrote:
> I couldn't agree more.  I simply tell people that I'm legally blind, not
> legally brain dead.  If they can't figure that out perhaps they are looking
> in the wrong mirror.  No pun intended.
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>> Judith,
>> I start to care, though, when people associate the fact that my eyes don't
>>
>> work with being the same as my brain not working.  Know what I mean?  For
>> some sighted people blindness = stupidity, and that bothers me.  My eyes
>> can't see, but my brain can still think.  So, when people treat me like
>> both my brain and my eyes don't work, I tend to struggle with how to
>> respond at times.  The overwhelming majority of the time, I am kind about
>> it.  There are those moments I find myself thinking that dealing with a
>> particular individual is a total wash.  I am not saying I am right for
>> feeeling that way, because I am not.  It's just my human nature rearing
>> its head is all.
>>
>>
>> In Christ,
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>
>> +-+-+-
>>
>>   God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it
>> is not there. There is no such thing.
>> C. S. Lewis
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
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>> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 02:45
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] question
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>>
>>> John, The reality, as much as you disagree, is that being sighted is
>>> better
>>> than being blind.  Terms like "visually impaired", "Visually challenged"
>>> or
>>> any of the like are legislated terms.  I can't see any better or worse
>>> when
>>> a bureaucrat describes my visual limitations.  I am what I am.  Like I
>>> said
>>> before, I have to take those limitations, do the best I can to do what I
>>> am
>>> capable of and continue striving to be the best me I can be.  I don't
>>> care
>>> how society looks at my limitations.  And, yes, they are limitations.  I
>>> have to be the one to deal with them.  Almost every person in this world
>>> has
>>> limitations.  Some can create beautiful artwork, some can't.  Some can
>>> write
>>> beautifully, some can't put together a cognizant statement either
>>> verbally
>>> or in writing.  Some have athletic prowess while others are happy being
>>> couch potatoes.  Some love to eat while others are skinny and physically
>>> fit
>>> their entire life.  All "problems", all "limitations" when put in the
>>> perspective of the optimum and people all over the world live with them
>>> every day.  When was the last time you heard of the "art impaired"
>>> person?
>>> Or the person who can't sing one note without causing distress to the
>>> other
>>> person's eardrums?  Are there cultures for the tone deaf?  The person who
>>> can't draw a straight line?  John, deal with John.  Society has enough
>>> problems.  As a society we have a lot to deal with, but making John
>>> socially
>>> comfortable isn't one of them.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "John Lee Clark" <johnlee at clarktouch.com>
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>>>
>>>> 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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