New blog post on my thoughts on people calling me and others who are blind "amazing":
Jen, I love the blog, thank you for your comments.,,, Rick
Thanks for reading - I really enjoy writing it!
Jen, this was an excellent blog, i very much enjoyed reading it. it reminded me of a girl i knew about 15 years ago.
i once did volunteer work with a girl who had cerebral palsy. she walked with crutches and used a wheelchair most days towards the end of the day because of the physical exertion of getting around on crutches all day with all of the complications of moving around with CP. we spent an intense two weeks together doing a summer day camp for unemployed miners children in the morning and then walked round these towns doing surveys for various things.
i found everything she did to be amazing, only because after spending time with her did i realize how easy i had it. i woke up and swung my legs off the bed and stood up. i walked from one end of the kitchen to another without holding onto the counters for balance.
she was quick to gently correct me when i expressed how amazed i was at her amazing-ness. she was just LIVING, she said, which was just like everybody else, but with crutches and a wheelchair and 10 inches less height.
i was not completely convinced, only because i could not imagine how i would cope with the difficulties she came across daily, hourly, even. but yes, inspirational would be a much better word! she was right, just living isnt really that amazing, its just what everybody does, with crutches, with a cane, with a seeing eye dog, with an insulin pump. its all the same, its just getting on with it!
thanks for this great blog post!
love the title, as well, haha!
Many people would consider every member of TuD amazing just for living so actively with diabetes. People without diabetes have it easier than we do, after all, but I'm sure most people here don't think of themselves as particularly amazing. It's the same with disabilities.