[blindlaw] Refusal To Use A Cane

[Paul Harpur]

Perhaps one approach could be to look at the crazy medical advice.  Just
some ideas, but:
1. When was the advice given?  Remember years ago some third rate medical
practitioners used to cover kids good eye to help their lazy ey get better.
Later we recognised this as abuse.  It could be that the advice that this
person has been given is out of a 1920s textbook!  
2. Is the person in question correctly understanding the advice?  I am sure
we all have given someone legal advice and later found the client has
misunderstood something.  I just can't believe anyone would give such stupid
advice.  If you can't see and you walk into things, hitting your head,
surely that can't be overly healthy.
3. If the answer to 2 is yes, then has this medical practitioner any real
qualifications or capacity to give such advice?  Sounds like they have got
their qualifications out of a cornflakes packet.



-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mark
BurningHawk
Sent: Monday, 17 December 2012 12:59 AM
To: Blind Law Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Refusal To Use A Cane

If the person in question had some sort of ethical or moral difference with
cane use, this would be much more supportable.  I, too, have ethical or
personal / social issues with a white cane, but I would never refuse to use
one.  I hope that, should the person choose to use a different COLOR of
cane, he will not be subject to this ostracization.  I am glad that a dog
was also included multiple times in the original post, as I remember a lot
of bias against dogs in past times, and I'm glad to see that apparently not
there as much.  However, the reasoning that a cane will somehow cause
seizures is, as was nicely put, horse hockey. :)  Sending him home, even
telling him what he *had* to do in terms of cane use, or couching it as an
"You're setting a bad example for other blind people," argument, though, I
feel, will be less than useful.

Mark BurningHawk
Skype and Twitter:  BurningHawk1969
Home page:  Http://MarkBurningHawk.net/


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