The blind community and their self-pity/victim mentality.
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SiriAlexa
@user375146 this is my spiritual sisters :-) and she’s so amazing 
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Excellent points young lady. Excellent. Very insightful. And I guess you're right, after a while, that is not an excuse. Once you get into the real world. Is that your real sister, biological sister? How sweet 
SiriAlexa
@user375146 that doesn’t matter. I myself was pretty much coddled and even sheltered, but I had to learn things the hard way to not well up in self-pity. Like I mentioned speaking from personal experience I had to mature emotionally real quickly at a really young age so honestly that’s not an excuse at all. there are others who have been coddled, but learned later on in life to not well up in self-pity. The question is for the person who was brought up like this as a child. Do they want to learn how to grow up and learn to face challenges or do they want to continue to stay like this forever? nowadays, society is cruel and unfortunately they’re not gonna care if you were coddled. They’re going to take advantage of that person just saying. They’re going to walk all over them. I have selective mutism and back in the day I was writing to others either on my phone or the braille note, etc. That was back in school so when I got to the real world, I had to learn little by little that I can’t continue on like this forever. In speech, I learned a few exercises and it helped me. But the one who helped me the most was my awesome sister GigiLucy. i’m still not that confident and I do get nervous speaking especially when it comes to sending an audio message. but what happened? I personally decided to get out of that shell little by little and work on my selective mutism, including doing the exercises that my speech therapist taught me. That’s just an example. So there is no excuse.
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Sorry, I got cut off. People be careful when composing. I was trying to go to the end of the text but I must've hit the scent button. This happened twice to me today already. Oops. Anyway… Probably the strongest folks, for those who were blind as a child, are those whose parents and guardians told them and push them Out into the world and encourage them and brought new opportunities in front of them daily. Not everyone had this experience. So now some of these folks who were coddled as children are now grown adult adults and that's just where they are. I think we can just encourage them to kind of grow up a bit and just be good role models. If they've had 18 years with this experience, and now you know them at 28 or 29 years old, they will probably be the same. It takes time. It takes me around other independent forward thinking positive Blind people who are encouraged and determine to make their way in the world. Let's just support them. They frustrating me as well. I personally was not blind as a child. So I did not have that experience one way or the other. I began losing some vision when I was 18 years old but it came back. I did not start losing my vision again until I was about 37. I was a single mom and I had a home and a full-time job. I could not do the pity thing. I felt like I did not have a choice but to keep it moving keep it moving keep it moving. But I was already a strong adult so when this happened, I was able to forge through. But I know, everyone is not like me. But let's just encourage those that Don't feel like they can or never will be able to. I meet people like that every day. Sometimes my first thought is to do what you did. And sometimes I do. But then I catch myself and apologize to the person and pull back and just try to give them some encouraging words about When they're ready, they can and they will if they want to. It's hard as hell to keep your chin up having a disability and being in this psycho world. But we can do it. I agree I agree I agree we need to support each other more. Thank you for that. God bless you all
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Sorry, but I did not listen to any of the audio messages but I agree 100% with all of the text messages, text comments rather. Thank you for posting this concern. I agree. But sometimes, that's how someone is brought up as a child. They are sheltered and coddled and they are told that they can't do this, or they will never be able to do that. That's not their fault how they were raised. Probably the strongest blank people are the ones whose parents are guardians to in as a young child, if you were blind as a child because of course that everyone was, 
Robert Kingett
The internalized ableism in the thread is off the charts
Tori
Nestor
There’s a stat that like 70% of blind people are unemployed. In my life, I’ve met hundreds of blind people and can say that around half of those 70% are unemployed because they don’t put in the effort not because of their disability. 
SiriAlexa
Too bad so sad!!!!! I will always coppy you.
GigiLucy
You’re gonna make me cry little sis. :-) I’m so incredibly proud of the young woman you are today. Just please. Stop copying me so much. Lol!
SiriAlexa
Yeah honestly as a blind community, we should be there for one another that’s true. Especially more so because we are vulnerable and really we should be there for each other always. We shouldn’t put one another down and stuff like that or fighting. Most of us are fighting similar battles as to having certain services denied, etc.. we should be lifting each other up. It doesn’t always have to be about giving platitudes or saying words at all. It’s just presence a silent support.
SiriAlexa
GigiLucy
Hi Mark! You’re right. As one of the most vulnerable populations. All of us in the blind community should come together and help each other out. That’s another thing. I’m really mad about. Our lack of solidarity with each other.
Mark Driesenga
GigiLucy
Hi Mark. How are you? I think it doesn’t matter your circumstances or how you are brought up. We all have the choice either to sit down and let everyone and everything crush us, or get up and actually try to solve or reconcile with our circumstances. Don’t get me wrong, I am absolutely mad that we barely get enough money to survive monthly. But be it as it may, yes, we have breadcrumbs in the United States. But we should be grateful. In my mother‘s country. Blind people only have a single Brailer in the school I have been to. And no braille paper. At least we have the better breadcrumbs when it comes to services here.
Tori
Mark Driesenga
Tori
The AI Wizard
Mark, you really nailed it — I think you’re absolutely right. From where I’m standing, it feels like our whole generation is living through one of those big turning points you only recognize in hindsight. The world is shifting fast, and let’s be honest… not everyone is going to handle that the same way. This isn’t “business as usual” and it’s definitely not just another four-year cycle. Something deeper is happening, and a lot of folks are uneasy with the changes. But I appreciate all of you who jumped in, shared your thoughts, and kept your cool. It says a lot about the kind of people we are — steady enough to face the world as it is, and gracious enough to hear each other out. Blessings to all of you.
Mark Driesenga
Jayson Tyler
The AI Wizard
Amen