[stylist] Does anyone want to be blind?

Fri Mar 27 02:37:33 UTC 2009

given that we are the blind, we have a better understanding of what 
it means to be blind than do the doctors.

if a doctor loses a patient to death, he or she perceives that as a 
personal failing.  if an ophthalmologist has a patient go blind, that 
is also perceived as a personal failure by some I believe.

jc

Jim Canaday M.A.
Lawrence, KS

At 08:40 AM 3/26/2009, you wrote:
>Perhaps we should be sending this thread to doctors.  As medical 
>professionals they are committed to saving as much sight as 
>possible. According to this thread some of their treatments and 
>procedures are wrong. Do any of us have the right to tell them not 
>to do what they strive to do? Judith
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>>yes,
>>reading with my one squinty eye gave me headaches too.
>>personally I think far far too often the educrats resort to "sight 
>>saving" techniques when they should push braille and other 
>>blindness methods and skills.
>>jc
>>
>>Jim Canaday M.A.
>>Lawrence, KS
>>
>>At 07:06 PM 3/25/2009, you wrote:
>>>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:
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> does anyone want to be blind?
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
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