[stylist] Not okay to be blind...

[Donna Hill]

Hi Atty,
Thank you for sharing this. I also had a similar experience. I was 
expected to read print despite how physically sick it made me. It was 
clear to me that it was not OK to be blind. I think my journey in 
overcoming those attitudes is still ongoing. I'm glad you were able to 
make such a profound leap after your conversation with Robert.
Donna

The Crowd wrote:
> As I grew up my mother really ignored my blindness which sent me the 
> message that it was something not to address. I felt like it was 
> something I shouldn't have, shouldn't be, and so I did everything I 
> could to be like sighted kids.
>
> All except for the reading and writing of braille. It took me a long 
> time not to feel like a broken sighted person. Because that is how I 
> felt. I was a sighted person with something wrong with me. I know now, 
> many years later, that it is okay to be a blind person. It doesn't 
> make something wrong with me.
>
> Funny, I didn't even realize at the time I felt that way. It was only 
> after a few conversations  with Robert Newman, after I'd become an 
> adult, that I realized that was what it was.
>
> Then I progressively changed it.
>
> Sincerely,
> Atty
>
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