[Blindtlk] Signing Your Name.

[Jennifer Piening]

Hi! I think that it is a good idea for a blind person  to sign his/her 
own name, and that's all fine and good. However, a person's signature is 
just that, a way of identifying him or herself. It doesn't need to be 
legible, and I get annoyed when people ask if a bank will accept my 
signature just because it isn't very legible. I can't tell you how many 
times I've heard sighted people comment on another sighted person's 
signature, and told me that it was totally and completely illegible. 
These people sign legal documents all of the time. For example, many 
doctors have illegible signatures. I used to spend a bunch of time 
worrying about whether or not my signature was legible.  However, people 
would get impatient with me, because it would take me forever in a day 
to sign a document. So now I just try to sign correctly, and reason that 
if a doctor or a CEO of a large company can get away with having a not 
so pretty signature, then why can't I?! Sometimes people like to make a 
big deal about the illegibility of a blind person's signature, because 
they are blind. Otherwise, why would so many sighted doctors and other 
people in power sign legal documents illegibly and adopt that signature 
as their own?
      We all have things we're ashamed of  and insecure about and to 
doubt somebody's competence as an independent blind person just because 
he or she feels it's his her own right to sign a document illegibly 
seems a bit harsh and judgmental to me. If you're going to judge 
people's competence based on this criteria, you might want to have 
somebody evaluate your doctor's signature. LOL
Jenny
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