[stylist] Dealing with frustration memories!

[Semirhage]

Prejudice is experienced by more than just blind people, though. Really.
And though skin color is totally included in this, I don't limit it to just 
that either.
When my husband and his family moved from Russia  to Israel, he was 
surprised at how many of the natives disliked the Russians for this or that 
reason and they were all the same color. So he had the vision factor to deal 
with plus the Russian factor which was also apparently an issue he didn't 
expect.
And in Russia itself he had to hide the fact he was Jewish in school even 
though he wasn't practicing because he'd have  been discriminated against 
for that and with fists not words. IT was pretty harsh in soviet Russia in 
the early 80's when he was a kid in elementary school before they left. All 
this on top of the blindness, but even if he'd been fully sighted he'd have 
still had the other problems.
I just feel that a lot of blind people want to feel the victim and not to 
feel at one with others who are  also given crap by jerks. I don't make 
these points  to argue. I dislike arguing. LOL. I make the point because 
being hurt and sad and stressed is no fun and boxing oneself off and feeling 
even more alone in a predominantly sighted world isn't really helpful or 
true. There are many angry, depressed and sad sighted people.  I know a lot 
of them. Many who are bullied for similar  reasons  to those I listed above, 
or  because they're  fat, or short, or have a funny looking nose. I have 
many sighted  friends who had a harder time of it in school than I did, and 
trust me I got my share which is why I learned how to give it back. Yes 
because I got angry. LOL. And it taught people not to mess with me. Many of 
my sighted friends were hurt and retreated instead, and that didn't seem to 
serve them as well, but to each their own. The point is feeling blind people 
are  the only ones to relate to being needlessly hurt just serves to make 
one feel even more ostracized, and that never leads  to happy warm feelings. 
LOL.
I have had many friends who even call sighted people slang names that I find 
rude, like  they're the only ones who can give people problems. LOL. I've 
been treated rudely by blind people  too. I believe that people are  people 
no matter their  eye condition skin color, language, country they were born, 
any of that. Some are nice, some are not. Some are smart, and some  are 
ignorant. It has to do with what kind of person they are, and not how  well 
they can see. But speaking of sight, blind people, sighted people, will 
choose to SEE the world or a situation any way they like. I choose to look 
all around  rather than at just those emotions that seem to help me prove my 
point. I'd rather be happy than right and that keeps  me growing. Again I 
only say this as ostracizing only makes life harder. I tend to try to find 
those good friends to whom I can relate no matter if they can see or not.
That's the way I see it for  what it's worth.
Sem
I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed.
I get along with the voices inside of my head.