Dreams of a Deafblind Person by Alex Garcia

I dream that one day... I will be "less" invisible for Humankind.

I dream that one day... Humankind will recover the patience it has lost.

I dream that one day... Humankind will recover its wisdom and will understand my communication.

I dream that one day... Humankind will be close again as in ancient times.

I dream that one day... Humankind will be free of prejudice and will be able to touch me without any fear.

I dream that one day... I won’t be "just a brick in the wall" anymore, as Pink Floyd said in the song "Another brick in the wall".

I dream that one day... I won’t need to "drink from the same water fountain" as Carl Jung, one of the founders of modern Psychoanalysis, said.

I dream that one day... Humankind will be able to eliminate the label that deafblindness is the most terrifying condition.

I dream that one day... Humankind will assume that "being alone" doesn’t mean to be abandoned.

I dream that one day... I will sow the "loneliness" that deafblindness imposes us as a possible aim to be enjoyed because we won’t be afraid of ourselves.

I dream that one day... I will change the pre-assumptions concerning my identity and the sentence which is currently repeated "Poor thing, he/she is deafblind" will be left in the past.

I dream that one day... Humankind will see my being and will indeed value my essence as my fight and then will say "Great! He/she is a deafblind person".

I dream that one day... I will erase the shame from Humankind’s mind as a tool of controlling.

I dream that one day... Humankind will understand and value that all people are a Divine Creations: alike, however, incomplete.

I dream that one day... I will not just "exist" but actually "be".

I dream that one day... I will learn to be "strong" so that nothing can defeat me.

I dream that one day... I will be "me" so nobody will forget me.

I dream that one day... My dreams will design the future. I dream that one day... Humankind will be "human".

 

By Alex Garcia -Deafblind Person and Person with Hydrocephalus and Rare Disease – Brazil

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