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From: Terry Taylor
Email: Terry.Taylor@dial.pipex.com
Date: 09 Feb 2000
Time: 22:40:21
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I hear what Jessica has to say about 'loving your disability'. I think what she forgets is that for many, particularly those who have been born with their disability, a 'cure' is not necessarily the answer.

I am currently training to be a rehabilitation worker supporting visually impaired people. In a recent lecture (and with the background of the story about Stevie Wonder being able to see for the first time in his life), I was told of a young man who was born blind. He agreed to take part in a research project (conducted in the USA) in which an operation gave him sight for the first time ever. He was about 20 years of age at the time. The operation was successful, but he was unable to adjust to seeing things moving and understand what all the everyday objects were.

Indeed, when he was out in the street, there was so much to see he could not cope with it. He still had to relate everything to touch. It got to him so much that he ended up committing suicide.

The point I'm endeavoring to make is that, whilst 'curing' his blindness was a good thing, the psychological problems that this person had to endure as a result of being able to see were clearly a lot worse.

Jessica may, therefore, be right in some cases. After all, let us not forget -- a person's disability (like everything else in life) is unique to them. How they deal with it is also personal to them.

I have a number of totally blind friends and the vast majority of them have said that they would rather stay blind, despite the fact that it disadvantages them in a seeing world.

Some members of the deaf community are very proud of their deafness, particularly the "culturally deaf". They are vehemently opposed to, for example, cochlear implants because they see this as their deafness and their culture being denied to them.

We all have our opinions on such issues. I hope you don't mind me offering a different viewpoint. In the end that's all it is.

Regards. Terry Taylor

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