I'm so furious I can barely type this! Just how dare she! I hope she is UTTERLY SHUNNED by the blind community! She's just so awful! It's fucking Rachel Dolezal all over again! You stupid bitch! You have no right, none at all to just sit there and appropriate the experiences and culture (yes blind people have their own culture) of the visually impaired and blind! I just GRRR!!!! She should be in the loony bin chewing on sporks! I'm just so upset right now.

http://youtu.be/UZifvnLiqfI

dafuq?

Why would you want to shun her if she's mentally ill?

(October 3, 2015 at 1:30 am)vorlon13 Wrote: dafuq?

I'm so pissed at this moment I just can't even deal…

I saw the guy who froze his legs off on purpose so he could have a wheel chair do an interview.

I've been around many many people with all manners of problems (thank you 12 steppers and much else) and I still don't understand that.

Hahh... I was wondering when you'd hear about that, BrokenQuill.

(October 3, 2015 at 1:33 am)Faith No More Wrote: Why would you want to shun her if she's mentally ill?

Some people with disabilities find it very disrespectful and crass that someone else would passionately choose to have their disability.

Sure, I'm sure she's ill... but I can also understand why people who were born without sight (or who lost their sight to accident and disease)... could be angry.

That really crappy movie I have railed against from time to time (which fortunately virtually no else has seen) Nightfall, has a blinding scene in it.

It is apparently a VERY intense topic, there are extremely few movies that portray something like that, the reaction is universal and visceral, and takes most all putative viewers of the film right out it.

My AIDS buddy Dennis went blind from Kaposi's Sarcoma when his facial tumors grew large enough to obstruct his eyes.

This is getting to be a real tough topic . . .

If my grandmother were alive, she'd say "There is really somethin' wrong with her brain."

(October 3, 2015 at 1:33 am)Faith No More Wrote: Why would you want to shun her if she's mentally ill?

Do have any idea the mental and physical adjustments people like me go through? Learning to dress yourself? Learning to eat without making a total mess. The self-consciousness of going out for a walk. The sensory overload when suddenly you have to wait and listen for doorways? The overwhelming smells? The people who coddle you constantly? The loneliness because most people don't want to date a disabled woman? The -75% employment rate? Fighting tooth and nail to paid a proper wage? She's a total ass.