[blindkid] more than just blindness

[Pui]

Well said...

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> On Jul 2, 2014, at 9:16 AM, Leah Pratt via blindkid <blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I have a son with other disabilities too.
> 
> Whoever is passionate about a certain area related to blindness will be the
> person to step up and lead the way in that area. Maybe that will be Lalena.
> We all know how hard it is to think about leading things when we are just
> trying to get a kid to walk, or talk, or go potty, or fill in your own
> blank.
> 
> The NFB/NOPBC really is grassroots. Each member has the ability and
> potentially the authority to do big things. And we all need each other
> because unless you're a large corporation, many hands, minds, and resources
> are needed for each big thing.
> 
> Recently for work I was reading first-person accounts of the Montgomery bus
> boycott. I took a lot of history in college and somehow I STILL didn't know
> how much work happened on a volunteer level. Networking with community
> members. Tons of meetings. People writing flyers and creating a
> distribution network for thousands of flyers. Volunteers creating from
> scratch, an alternate transportation network with their personal cars so
> that people could get to work without using city buses. FOR A YEAR. How did
> I pass three African-American history courses and not even know the boycott
> lasted an entire year?
> 
> Anyway - those people are us, potentially. The NFB is an organization OF
> the blind, and in the cases where those blind people are not yet able (or
> ever able) to participate because they are little kids or because of other
> disabilities, then it falls to their parents, their families, their
> helpers, and their neighbors to take their place in running the
> organization and advancing the cause.
> 
> And I say this as someone who has mostly only read the publications,
> attended the conferences, called the phone numbers, and not yet offered the
> help - but I am SO GRATEFUL to every person who made those happen when I
> was running around with a little boy in a diaper in a wheelchair.
> 
> Okay, off soapbox.
> 
> Leah
> mom to John
> Austin, Texas
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