[Blindtlk] Visually Impaired/ Living in the middle?

[Jasmine Kotsay]

Hi, Lauren,
	I agree with you! I think that if more sighted people were 
educated about blindness and the things that blind people go 
through, there will be less discrimination of the blind.  Maybe 
companies will stop charging an arm and a leg for the necessary 
tools we need when they should realize that quite a few of us are 
on fixed incomes.  I know a loq of companies charge a lot because 
of the money it takes to produce their products, but dang, not 
all of us can pay thousands of dollars for the things we need.  
If a lot of fully sighted people would blindfold themselves for a 
couple of days and try to learn what we have to go through, there 
won't be so many issues.


 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Lauren Merryfield" <lauren at catlines.com
To: "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 21:59:36 -0800
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] 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: blindtlk [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: [Blindtlk] 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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