[stylist] Does anyone want to be blind?

[helene ryles]

I wasn't really thinking of people already blind although I've heard
of blind people saying that blindness was the best thing that happened
to them. Wasn't that a line at the end of one of Robert's thought
provokers?

I was thinking more of sighted people with a disorder called BIID
where people want to be disabled: Usually amputee's but I've heard
some of them wanting to be deaf or blind.

Also I know of someone who was born blind, regained his sight and is
now losing it again due to Glycoma and he says he is glad to be blind
as he says he was meant to be blind.

As for me, I make deafblindness part of my lifestyle. It's been a
concious choice for me to fully embrace being a deafblind person and
move on. It's not easy to begin with, but once one fully adapts it's
no big deal. I believe that humans are a very adaptible species that
can manage perfectly well minus one or two senses. It's not the
tragedy that people make of it. It's no worse or better then being
sighted. Just differance and it's the differances that are hard at
first, not the blindness

Helene

On 25/03/2009, LoriStay at aol.com <LoriStay at aol.com> wrote:
> Not if they aren't there already.   What does wanting have to do with it?
> Lori
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