[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: people's reactions and stupid questions
- From: "Lora" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 06:01:43 -0700
I also had blind role models very early on. I went to public school, and
the people who taught me Braille and coping skills were blind. I don't
think I ever held the notion that blind people couldn't work, and I knew
from a young age that I would be expected to do so as well. Because of
those early role models, I knew it was possible.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kaitlyn
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Hi Natalie,
I have to agree with your comment.
It's either learn to be independent and find ways to do things or stay
> at home, shrivel up and die.
>
I think this attitude is true across the board. You either get on with life
or grab a rocker.
I had never thought about it but thinking back I had a few blind persons
that came into my life early on. It may be where I got this view that you
go out and live life, work and be a part of the community.
e
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Grandma Cindy
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 1:07 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: people's reactions and stupid questions
I think your last sentence explains it, Natalie. One doesn't see it any
more--at least I don't--but in my youth all we saw of blind people were
those sitting on sidewalks selling pencils. Until I knew my father's friend,
a successful attorney who was married and raised two children, who had
become blind in adolescence, the beggars were all I saw--and maybe
occasionally people with canes being picked up by service vans from Goodwill
or Salvation to do some kind of handiwork.
For those of us who are sighted and know the little difficulties of ife--and
those of us who have gone to college and know the pressures and difficulties
that can be encountered there--it is easy for us--at least for me--to admire
all of you--I wouldn't use as strong a word as be in awe of, but maybe. I
think we wonder if we would be able to "deal" as well as all of you.
You younger folk do have, as has been mentioned here, some technological
advantages older blind people didn't have when they were young and in
school, as Elizabeth and some others have mentioned. People of my
generation, as far as I know, had to use people as notetakers, as one of you
mentioned, and people to guide them, before guide dogs. There weren't even
tape recorders available to tape lectures.
First Lady of the Seeing Eye, by Morris Frank, about the first guide dogs,
presents the difficulties and embarrassing situations blind people faced
before guide dogs became available. The book is in the collection.
Cindy
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>
> My question to people like this, is, why do they say stuff like this?
> It's either learn to be independent and find ways to do things or stay
> at home, shrivel up and die.
>
> Natalie B.
>
>
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