[Blindtlk] Letter to the Editor: Dining in the Dark eventsre:[blindtlk] fw: MIRA Foundation

[Chris Nusbaum]

Hi Sheila,

Yes, I agree! I think we're always going to be faced with some 
kind of stereotypes because we're a disability group, though we 
might not view our blindness as a disability (which I don't,) and 
sighted people can't
imagine doing anything without their sight, and therefore they 
can't imagine us doing anything without ours.  But, I think we 
need to stay optomistic, and this very work is what the 
Federation does every day! That's why we're part of it; to change 
what it means to be blind!

Chris

"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The 
real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that 
exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and 
opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical 
nuisance."
-- Kenneth Jernigan (President, National Federation of the Blind, 
1968-1986

 The I C.A.N.  Foundation helps blind and visually impaired youth 
in Maryland say "I can," by empowering them through providing 
assistive technology and scholarships to camps and conventions 
which help them be equal with their sighted peers.  For more 
information about the Foundation and to support our work, visit 
us online at www.icanfoundation.info!

----- Original Message -----
From: Sheila Leigland <sleigland at bresnan.net
To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:22:29 -0700
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Letter to the Editor: Dining in the Dark 
eventsre:[blindtlk]	fw: MIRA Foundation

Hello marion very well stated.  As a blind person I just want to 
live my life and be able to walk down a street without being 
watched to see if I'm going to need help or something like that.  
The idea that we are more courageous is rediculous.  The 
stereotypes based on blindness ablone need to go and the sooner 
the better.  We aren't childlike or innocent about the world 
around us or at least I hope we aren't.  We were told one time 
that our canes were to noisy and weren't there homes for your 
kind of people.  We have had police ask us why we are on the 
streets so late at night, it was eight thirty in the evening.

Sheila Leiglan	d

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