[stylist] Not okay to be blind...

[Ben]

I still have trouble with accepting my blindness at times

Ben

On Jan 29, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Donna Hill <penatwork at epix.net> wrote:

> 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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