Topic: | rReReReRe:Re:Re:ReReReReReReReRe:Re:note-able quotes |
Posted by: | Ernest |
Date/Time: | 04/04/2003 09:40:39 |
Subject: NLP New CODE.Modeling and Ericskonian Hypnosis Re:unconscious and conscious process's My Feelings abour Being Blind As a child and adolescent I always felt very inferior to sighted people. I thought that acting sighted as much as possible was what what I should aspire to because I thought "sighted people" were so much better even personalty wise than myself. My mother, in particular perpetuated this and used to begrudged me having blind friends or having anything to do with blind people in general. But I REMEMBER VERY CLEARLY WHEN I WAS ABOUT 17 one day stopping and thinking "Why should I feel this way?"People are people whether they are blind,sighted, black, white, pink or yellow.This made me start feeling a lot better about myself as a person and not feeling that the biggest compliment one could get as a blind person was having people say to you "Oh I didn't know you were blind,I couldn't tell." Now I feel that my blindness is just part of my identity. And I am happy to be able to say that at the age of 31, I FULLY ACCEPT my ability to be blind and love myself for what I am. I have noticed, and this is ONLY MY PERCEPTION MIND that alot of blind people either are estranged from their families or conversly live in their families pockets or are completely CONSUMED by their parents. I live about 2000 miles away from my parents and I am quite happy with the distance. I am not happy to be so far away from my sister as I adore her so very much. I love my dad also, so I felt a little sad when I moved farther away from him. But I think being away from my mother only enhanced our relationship and finally after 33 years she has begun to see me as an adult rather than a child. Katrina Stewert Katrina Stewert@ersrehah.gov.au August 27,1999 |