JesseWhat are everyone's thoughts on training centres for blind people like this one?
https://www.blindinc.org/
Worth attending? A terrible idea?
https://www.blindinc.org/
Worth attending? A terrible idea?
@JesseF8693 it depends if you're willing to learn what they have to teach you. and want the help they can give you. there's loads all over the place, NFB runs some. I'm personally fond of the carroll center in Massachusetts. went to a 5 month program there to brush up on things I already knew. talk to people who have been to them, if you can.
@lunar_fang I don't know anyone who has been, but I do know I want to do this. Of course, like I said, the family isn't too keen on it, because it would mean I leave the house and cross the border. It would be inconvenient to get me there is a line they've used in the past for guide dog school and it's a line they will probably use again
@JesseF8693 you have to put your foot down then. if they want you to be an independant person who they don't have to worry about then they should help you gain that indipendence. if they give a shit about you at all they'll help you.
@lunar_fang I'm in the process of trying to do just that. Honestly, once I'm gone, in all likeliness, I won't look back and won't come back. I have been held so tightly to the family since the day I was born and I'm tired of living here. I don't know if they know this or not, but I don't plan to tell them. I'll probably just cut contact eventually.
@JesseF8693 do what shan did. fuck you family bye. but she at the time had a partner. so she wasn't like out on the streets and what not.
@lunar_fang I don't know if I can afford that in my current situation. Plus, where would I get a ride out of here anyway?
@JesseF8693 go fund me. like other blind people do when they have shit situations.