[Blindtlk] Visually Impaired/ Living in the middle?

[Judy Jones]

In my lifetime, I've only met 2 sighted people who put braille to practical use in their lives. One was a friend in college who was an art major. She'd been introduced to braille in grade school by someone visiting their classroom. As a college art major, whenever the lights were turned off in class for slideshow viewing, while everyone else vied for seats near the light on the end of the projector, she pulled out her slate and stylus and took braille notes. Her notebooks were interspersed with braille and print notes.

The second person had been a cryptographer with the navy, and was a chemistry teacher of mine in college. He figured out the braille code by comparing print and braille element tables.

Judy

----- Original Message -----
From: Lauren Merryfield <lauren at catlines.com>
To:  blindtlk at nfbnet.org
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Date: Saturday, February 8, 2014 10:59 pm
Subject: Re: [Bltlk] Visually Impaired/ Living in the middle?

>
>
> Hi,
> I think that it would be hard to identify as sighted sometimes and blind
> others and nothing in between, where you are probably the real you. That's
> like putting flour in one side of a bowl and shortening in the other side;
> the two don't get blended together. 
> 
> I know blind people who ride bikes, who know braille by seeing it and by
> feeling it, learning and using a CCTV and jaws, etc, so that they can
> choose, at any given moment, which way they want to do something. They have
> more options that way.
> 
>  Personally I think more sighted people need to learn braille. I've even
> sent braille/print cards to sighted people. 
> Thanks
> Lauren
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bltlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mari
> Hunziker
> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 10:12 AM
> To: Blind Talk Mailing List
> Subject: [Bltlk] Visually Impaired/ Living in the middle?
> 
> Do any of you visual impaired folks out there ever feel like your living a
> life ~ half in the sighted world and half in the blind world?
> 
> I don't mean to offend anyone with this question. I merely want to know how
> to understand what I am feeling. I am visually impaired and I function like
> a sighted person except for a few exceptions. I can ride a bike, not on a
> main road but I do enjoy riding with my children in our neighborhood and
> around the lake. I read with a CCTV and use a magnifier when I am shopping
> to look at price tags, labels, and ingredients. I don't use a cane unless I
> am in an unfamiliar place or by myself. I did not learn braille as a youth
> but am trying to learn it now. I want to see it instead of feel it (I'm
> working on it). In my situation do you think it is necessary to attend a
> program that will improve my blindness skills? I don't even know what they
> would be?
> 
> What would you do?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mari Hunziker
> 
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