[stylist] Does anyone want to be blind?

[James Canaday M.A. N6YR]

once I became blind I was then taught braille and the audio reading 
methods.  that made reading much much more pleasurable and 
easier!  "sight saving" meant I was reading with my one squinty eye 
peering through jewelers' loop magnification lenses that came down in 
front of my glasses lense.  I would not have gone to college if I had 
not lost my sight at age thirteen.
jc

Jim Canaday M.A.
Lawrence, KS

At 06:38 PM 3/25/2009, you wrote:
>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
> > In a message dated 3/24/09 8:15:48 PM, timber_wolf899 at yahoo.com writes:
> >
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> >> does anyone want to be blind?
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