[bksvol-discuss] Re: American Action Fund
- From: "Allison" <alwaysallie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:48:57 -0400
Kellie,
I Don't necesarily think it's a totally blind thing. I think it's a
congenetally blind thing. I've been blind in some form or another all my
life. I could see ratehr well as a little kid, and have lost slowly
throughout my life, til my near-total status of today. The point is, if one
has missed seeing a good number of things through their life, spacial
concepts can be difficult to understand. I know I can't make sense of
tactile graphics either. I also don't get how a three domensional shape can
be expressed on a two dimensional flat surface. The two just don't make
sense to me. They may as well be two unrelated animals!
So, either the spacial stuff isn't just restricted to life totally blind
folks, or I'm just messed! <smile>.
Allison
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kellie Hartmann" <kellhart@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 11:28 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: American Action Fund
Hi Cindy,
Occasionally tactile graphics are made of pictures, but I have always
found
them impossible to interpret. Having been totally blind from birth and
never
having seen I can't seem to make the jump between the way a 3-dimensional
object, such as a tree or animal, feels when made into a 2-dimensional
drawing, even if it's a raised drawing. Sometimes I can't even tell what a
stuffed animal is supposed to be. But I don't have that problem with real
animals--we had many cats while I was growing up and I could always tell
them apart, even kittens from the same litter.
Kellie
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