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What the Blind Can See.
20 Things Our Parents Did That We Don't
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
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What the Blind Can See.

by Jennifer Pastiloff

I wrote a post a while back here on Positively Positive called "The Irrelevants." This letter to me was a response to that article, and with Michelle Medina's permission, I am sharing it. You are not irrelevant either, you sitting there reading this.

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Thank you Jennifer.

I have tried to commit suicide since I was six, anything to ease the pain. Even cut twice in my life, just ANYTHING to make myself disappear. It's even harder when the messages I received from the public and my classmates were: 'disappear! Evaporate!! You're NOTHING!!'

I'm visually impaired. I was born with a rare facial birth defect called a Tessier Cleft. My face didn't form properly, and I'm one of only between 50-56 people in the world with it. I've had 66 reconstructive surgeries thus far, including skin grafts and bone grafts, and the public has stared, pointed, and laughed.

My family, in the past, has given them the power to ruin perfectly good outings, and I've often asked my...

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20 Things Our Parents Did That We Don't

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By Kristin Mataluni

I absolutely believe in progress. The world is becoming a better place each and every day. There are, however, some behaviors we have let go of that I believe we need to try hard to hold onto. Read and see if you agree:

1. Send thank you notes. Hand written, delivered by the post office ones. I have been trying harder to make sure that I always do this. People really appreciate it.

2. Shake hands. Outside of the business world, people are not good at it at all. We are big huggers, so I don't shake a lot of hands, but when I get one of those sad, limp ones, I wonder how depressed and unconfident that poor person must be.

3. Collect things, specifically when it comes to kids. When I was little, it was stickers; boys collected baseball cards or comics. When my dad was a kid, he pinned beautiful insect specimens to boards. Collecting teaches organization and responsibility. Today, kids collect video games that they treat poorly.

4. Stand up straight. It...

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Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

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