Should Completely Blind Couples Get To Be Parents?
St. Louis – Erika Johnson will never be able to see her baby, Mikaela. But for 57 days she couldn’t keep her newborn close, smell her baby’s breath, feel her downy hair. The state took away her 2-day-old infant into protective custody _ because Johnson and Mikaela’s father are both blind. No allegations of abuse, just a fear that the new parents would be unable to care for the child. Questions arose within hours of Mikaela’s birth, after Johnson’s clumsy first attempts at breast-feeding _ something many new mothers experience. A lactation nurse noticed that Mikaela’s nostrils were covered by Johnson’s breast. Johnson felt that something was wrong and switched her baby to her other side, but not before Mikaela turned blue. That’s when the concerned nurse wrote on a chart: “The child is without proper custody, support or care due to both of parents being blind and they do not have specialized training to assist them.”
For Sure NOT. Being blind is for the fuckin birds. If I was blind I don’t think I’d be able to find my own dick let alone raise another living human. I have the gift of sight right now and I still couldn’t raise one. And while I’m sure Erika and her husband have overcome all the odds and they can work the microwave and tie their shoes and shit like that, bottom line is if you can’t tell whether or not you are smothering your child with your tits, you can’t be a mom. She could be sitting there like Billy from Dumb and Dumber. “Pretty bird. Yes, can you say pretty bird? Pretty bird, yeah pretty bird… Polly want a cracker?” Meanwhile your baby is passed out because your nips are up his nostrils.
How the fuck would this kid ever get anywhere? How the fuck do blind people in general get anywhere? How do they know when to get out of the elevator? How about a revolving door? How do you find food in the grocery store? And riding around one of those seeing eye dogs is cheating. Just too much shit that they can’t do. Sorry, no kids for you.
PS – Best part about this horribly cruel blog is that these people could never even read it. So its like it doesn’t even count against me. Like it never even happened. Jokes on you blind people. The deafs are laughing all the way to the bank. They might not realize they are laughing out loud, but they are.