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Re: From disabilities birth abilities... - January 2nd 2010, 03:01 PM

I totally agree with you on this post and I really wish that people weren't that way with me, but unfortunately, some are and I hate being told I can't because I'm blind. I can't even walk down to the store that is right across the street from my house because people are to perinoid that I'll get hit by a car or something, all of my cousins can that live with me and that come over and some of them are younger than me, I feel that they think I'm not smart or something, all I am is blind. It is amazing what those people you described can do, this happens because they use there disability as a strength, not a weakness, they let it give them power, a power that people with disabilities might not have, the power to overcome something that might as well be considered tragic to those around them. Also, in order to overcome a disability, they have to have an amazing family support behind them, if someone grows up without that support, they can't, until they are older, overcome the disability because they may have people around them that put them down a lot, I don't have this to much but it happens enough to me to the point where I sometimes think I can't and hate my disability but in the end, I think about how different I would be without it, how if I didn't have a disability, I wouldn't be the person I am, I would be totally different and I hate knowing that. People have asked me before if I want my sight and i tell them that it would be nice to see things but that i don't think I would want it because then that would ruin what i'm used to and what I think of the world. I love how my disability enables me to think of the way things look differently than those that are sighted, I love how I always have a challenge.

Okay...sorry this is so long and does it even make sense?


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