Jehovah's Witnesses do not accept people with disabilities!

Dear friends, I have family members in the organization, as I have already mentioned here. Two elderly aunts for whom the world will end by the end of this year, and whose only hope is the mythical paradise, in which they believe tooth and nail.

They are good and honest people, but because of the organization, they seem extremely unhappy to me.

Before retiring, even though they are Jehovah's Witnesses, they were normal people; but after retiring, little by little, they began to associate only with Jehovah's Witnesses, and to live only for Jehovah's Witnesses.

I don't know if it is because of their age, or because of the lack of contact with the outside world. But the fact is that they have become extremely fanatical.

In my country, there are many activities for senior citizens: dances, bingo, walks, government programs, physical exercise, art classes, community services... but they do not participate in any of them. They do not want to know anything outside of a kingdom hall.

When it's Christmas time, they lock themselves in their little house and don't even answer the phone. Alone, they spend the night in a bad mood and don't get together with the rest of their family, which is small.

New Year? They hate it, saying that there's no point in having a New Year in this old world; birthdays? They don't celebrate their own birthdays, and on the birthdays of someone in the family, they send congratulatory messages, but without using the words "happy birthday" or "congratulations"...

But none of this is as absurd as what I'm going to tell you next: I'm blind, and I've always been blind. Screen readers, inclusion programs and a bit of rebellion have allowed me to live a normal life, despite my blindness. I work, I go out, I consume culture, I live art, theater, music, books. I love life and I live it very well!

I'm blind, but besides being blind, I'm a civil servant, I'm a reader, a thinking head, a person who dates, loves, lives, goes out on the street, and has a happy and normal life.

But Jehovah's Witnesses don't understand this... no Jehovah's Witness I've ever spoken to is able to understand this.

For them, blind people are unhappy and bitter people whose only hope is a cure, paradise, the end of original sin. Just writing this makes my stomach turn.

My aunts can't understand that no, I don't want to go to paradise, I don't want to see, I don't feel disabled, I don't want to have anything to do with Jehovah's Witnesses and, honestly, if paradise existed, I wouldn't want to go there.

Jehovah's Witnesses are simply incapable of accepting that blind people, despite being blind, are happy and don't live dreaming of a cure. Besides, what can they cure? If being blind was never a disease...

This tires me out, turns my liver sour, eats at my soul! I just wanted to vent... how do the Jehovah's Witnesses you know deal with people with disabilities?

It seems that no Jehovah's Witness can see people with disabilities as complete people. They always want to talk about paradise... about healing... about something that, honestly, no one wants to hear.