Posted by Virginia on Dec 16, 2009 in
Uncategorized In one of the X men movies, I think it was the last one, the good doctors wanted to “cure” all of the X men. That spoke to people with differences and disabilities of every description.
Some in the movie wanted a cure and some rejected it. The “normal” people couldn’t understand why some didn’t want to be “helped”.
Of course I thought about us.
What people do is give those who are different a “disease”. They call it a disease or condition or illness or say you “suffer from” something. It’s their own mental illness and paranoia that makes them uncomfortable with anyone different.
There are pigmentoids out there who think we must want to be like them…poor things that we are. After all, they are sooo perfect we can’t help but envy them. One of my college mates even said that to me thinking I would agree with her. The look I gave her shut her up.
When people ask you wouldn’t you rather be “normal” they are asking if you wouldn’t rather be like them. People have even said the worst thing in the world would be to have a child that doesn’t look like everyone else. They would rather abort a child or put her through painful surgeries that have her be different.
I have read several books on eugenics. That’s the practice of breeding people. You would be surprised how many people believe in it. If you are thinking how evil Hitler was, understand that he got his ideas from America: from famous and beloved people like Darwin and his father and brother who thought the world would be a better place if the not-so-perfect people would just go away.
Well, it’s never going to happen. No person born, who has ever been born or who has yet to be born will have perfect genes. It’s not possible. It’s the way we’re built. It is necessary for evolution and maybe survival. It’s necessary for diversity. Whether you can see it or not, everyone has something different about them. It may be manifest in having a brown eye and a blue eye or being short or being allergic to strawberries or having albinism. Sometimes it has devastating effects, sometimes it’s minor.
So why sweat about it? You are who you are and your kids will be who they will be.
Posted by Virginia on Oct 28, 2008 in
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Posted by Virginia on Oct 6, 2008 in
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Welcome
This has indeed been a journey. My Golden Child website is 10 years old. In that time both it and I have grown tremendously. I started it when I saw an enormous gap in what was being fed to us and what we needed for our own emotional survival.
I have gathered knowledge from around the world and published it on the site for all to share, free of charge. I have spoken to people from all walks of life from teachers to young students to medical and history professionals who were looking for information: either for themselves or to pass on to someone else. I have spoken to young mothers who did not know where to turn or feared for the future of their babies. I have spoken to unhappy teens who thought they were alone in their difference and thought there was no one who understood them. And I have spoken to proud professionals who were secure in themselves and confident in the knowledge that they had just as much right to walk this earth as anyone. I have met the most exciting and interesting people with and without albinism who I can call my friends.
Many years ago I set out to find out about us as a people and a culture. In college I searched research libraries for our history. When I started on this journey in middle school I had so little information, my biggest dream was to be able to fill one manila envelope with real, not contrived information about us. I now have that amount of information many times over. I did not know how I was going to get the information out since at that time there was no public internet and no home computers. When these two innovations came along I realized my dream of reaching the world with what I had found.
As I continue my search I realize that there is so much more information to gather: so much more to do: so many more people to meet. And yet the search never gets boring or tiring.
Now that I have reached another stage in my life I feel a renewed energy to add even more to The Golden Child. This update site is only one of the new changes you will see. Stay tuned, and stay blessed.
Nameste.
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