[blindkid] high school swim team

[Brandy W]

I was in a lot of these kinds of things growing up. My mom let it continue
because she thought it important that people see that I did the same
activities and stayed just as busy as my peers. It is important for the
community to have blindness in a positive light. He competes and he happens
to be blind. See blind kids don't have to sit at home alone and be pitied.
I'd encourage him to talk about why he likes swim team, the feeling he gets
from it, and although he may do things a bit different he has to follow all
the same rules, and wins on all the same conditions. This is a great time
for him to teach others. Let it go on is my opinion.

Bran


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-----Original Message-----
From: blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of SUSAN POLANSKY
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 10:00 PM
To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blindkid] high school swim team

Our son is a freshman in high school this year and is on his school swim
team. 
So far since November there has been one newspaper article and 2 TV news
spots about him being on his school swim team. There is yet another
interview this Wednesday. We have told the coaches that as long as Jason
sticks to the message and not the story then we will let the  interviews
continue. Has anyone else had such interest in your child doing ordinary
things that people think are extraordinary because the child is blind? If so
how did you handle it? How did you child handle it? We have been rather
surprised about the interest the media is showing. 

Susan 
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