http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/2015/10/24/1/girls-epilepsy-causes-stress-for-older#disqus-commentsThis situation reminds me of an experience I had when I was still in elementary school. One of my classmates, who's a month older than me, was also born a preemie like me. In her case, she was given too much oxygen which caused her to become totally blind. Fast forward to elementary school and all the adults indulged her every whim because they all felt sorry for her. As a result, her behavior became quite obnoxious while the rest of us were being punished for doing what she was doing. To add insult to injury, when several of us kids ask why was she getting away with stuff that WE were being punished for, we got told we should feel sorry for her because she's blind! I was also struggling with birth defects of my own and I was NOT being given ANY free rides so I thought the teachers' excuses were all BS! Then, to make matters worse, each of us had to be assigned to be this kid's guide during recess where the assignee of the day ended up getting physically abused, which was WRONG FROM THE GET-GO! When it was my turn, again, and she started pulling my arm out of its socket, I got fed up with the pain and told her to knock it off! She responded with, "How dare you yell at me?!?! I'm BLIND!" By this point, I was mad and I yelled louder that she may be blind but she's NOT STUPID!!! I told her that I don't like getting hurt the way she was hurting me and she can't go through life hurting people! Sooner or later, she was going to find herself in a situation where people were going to try to take things away from her because they won't see her as capable. Then I turned around and left her on the playground. The teacher tried to force me to apologize and I refused. At the PTA meeting, the blind classmate's mother complained about what I said and I still refused to apologize. Strangely enough, NWomb-Donor left me alone instead of beating the crap out of me as she usually did.
