(October 3, 2015 at 6:57 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: Maybe I was a bit harsh in the shun her category but just because she's mentally ill doesn't mean she shouldn't face some ridicule and social consequences. She obviously has some reasoning capacity and I think if she'd been sent to a proper therapist. Maybe actually met some blind people before her " decision", she would have (not right away of course) realized she was being both irrational and disrespectful. And I think she's going to realize how crazy what she did was, and be very regretful.
Her need to be blind doesn't come from misconceptions about blind people. It's not something she thinks would make her cool. It's not something she could decide against. Her desire to become blind is not something you could make go away with telling her about the struggles blind people face, or the hardships of living with a disability. She did not arrive at this state by a train of thought, so you can't make her change her mind with your train of thought.
Her condition was likely caused by a neurological failing. You say that she has some reasoning capacity - obviously, she does. However, she does not reason in this particular department affected by her disorder. She has no control whatsoever over those thoughts, and holding them against her as if she could help being ill is pretty disrespectful, too. She's disabled as well. The disability being mental doesn't make it any more voluntary.
