Comments on: Life as a Disabled Farm Boy http://treadmarkz.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/thank-god-im-a-small-town-boy/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:59:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: kshama http://treadmarkz.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/thank-god-im-a-small-town-boy/#comment-196 kshama Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:15:04 +0000 http://treadmarkz.wordpress.com/?p=66#comment-196 I agree. Perhaps, it is also because there are greater opportunities for being mentally engaged in urban and semi-urban settings. I guess in rural areas physical work takes precedence. Could it also be that we just get used to a particular way of living and it is, therefore, difficult to imagine ourselves in another? I have a visual handicap - I can see only with my right eye. And I'm rather myopic as well. But, having been born and brought up by educated parents in a metropolis, I hardly feel any different from those with normal vision. I have no doubt that my intellectual progress would have been retarded in a rural setting and I would have probably grown up with a complex as well. I agree. Perhaps, it is also because there are greater opportunities for being mentally engaged in urban and semi-urban settings. I guess in rural areas physical work takes precedence. Could it also be that we just get used to a particular way of living and it is, therefore, difficult to imagine ourselves in another?

I have a visual handicap - I can see only with my right eye. And I’m rather myopic as well. But, having been born and brought up by educated parents in a metropolis, I hardly feel any different from those with normal vision. I have no doubt that my intellectual progress would have been retarded in a rural setting and I would have probably grown up with a complex as well.

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