[guide.chat] Re: In Reply To: In Reply To: Re: In Reply To: question for people born Blind
- From: "David L. Bailey" <baileydavidl62@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:18:06 -0400
Wow Malcolm is the wife with these women wanting to pinch yer cheeks and
kiss ye all over? I lost my sight in 2008 about 6 months before 46 and it
was tough. I lost my job but have been retrained and work teaching other
blind and visually impaired to use computer with JAWs/ZoomText or Guide. I
was a middle school math teacher before being blind for four years, before
that computer programmer on AS/400 for 20 years. I think adventitious
blindness is more of an adjustment to life style, while congenital blindness
presents challenges in visualizing things never seen. This would present
difficulties in education. We all need to make the absolute most of every
minute we have with or without sight because we can never get a wasted
minute back. Becoming blind has taught me that not wasting time especially
includes conveying your feelings to those we care about.
Thank You,
David L. Bailey
baileydavidl62@xxxxxxxxx
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Re: In Reply To: question for people born Blind
Hi
I think there is a debate here. Which is hardest for us. Being born blind or
loosing your sight in later life. None are nice but both have there own
problems. I want to ask this question. Can a blind person at birth get any
idea of what something looks like , not by feel but a picture in your mind.
Can you imagine what animals look like or cars or male and female.
I put that because I heard a programme on the radio about this blind man
that got his sight back. A naked man and woman were standing in front of him
and he had no idea which was which. After a couple of months he was asking
to be made blind again because he couldn't cope with it.
So I take it that totally blind people at birth are put into the system and
go through school etc and get all they need.
A person who looses there sight like I did is very hard. One because you
loose your job as I did and I had a family to support. I had worked all my
life. So here I am in my forty's and suddenly I am in a different world and
don't no where to turn. I got my first social worker who said I know
nothing about blind people so we'll have to muddle through together. What a
good start when you don't know yourself. Your family have to adjust , the
house is rearranged, and so on and so on.
I had to start again like being born again. As a man standing at the loo was
impossible, because you can't see what your doing. How to eat your food. How
to really do anything Then you start going out. Do you go out with helpers
or like me I wanted to learn with a white stick. To find your way around
you've known for years. Now I might as well been in another country. Your
wife is sat there worrying if I'll get back alive. I could go on for ever.
Don't think I'm saying one is worse than the other. I think there both as
bad as each other but in different ways.
I would like to hear from other people who have lost their sight in later
life. And I wonder if anyone on this list has ever heard of Stickler
Syndrome. This is very rare and I haven't met anyone else with it. If there
is someone on this list I would like to hear from them.
Now hopefully this should keep us going for a bit. But keep the fun side of
it too.
love Malcolm. xxxxxxx sayin
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