[stylist] Does anyone want to be blind?

[helene ryles]

Jim: I can identify with that since I was glad to lose the rest of my
hearing for similar reasons. Being presurized into verbal
communication methods that I struggled with with powerful migrane
inducing hearing aids. Phew! I was glad when that was over.

Helene

On 26/03/2009, James Canaday M.A.  N6YR <n6yr at sunflower.com> wrote:
> 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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