[blparent] It really happens
Elizabeth Cooks
elizabethcooks at comcast.net
Sun Jun 20 23:56:34 UTC 2010
Yes, and there are those who are condescending to those of us whoa are
blind, and we have such people in our church. I am planning to ban them
from ever driving us to church again. They take over when ghey get here,
and no matter how assertive my husband is ( I'm sually already gone to choir
practice) they insist on putting the baby in the car, and they never strap
him in correctly, if at all. On the way home today, i discovered that the
seat wasn['t strapped in, and neither was the baby. They also never listen
when we tell them how the seat is to be installed. So, I sympathize about
morons.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] It really happens
> It really bugged Gab. She kept bringing it up to that little girl. I
> finally told her to drop it and move on. I then explained to her that not
> all people understand blindness and not all want to learn. I would have
> talked to that dad in a heart beat, but the little girl was deadest
> against
> it. I really don't know why someone wouldn't let her play with us, our
> ball
> was as light as a feather and if it happened to hit me, it wouldn't have
> hurt. Of course maybe the dad didn't know or care. V
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 3:37 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] It really happens
>
> That's so sad. Beyond the pure insanity of not letting your child play
> with
>
> someone just because she's blind, and the way it made you feel, what that
> man was teaching his little girl is that you don't want to interact with
> people who are different from you. That's not what we need in this world.
> Chalk it up to "you can't fix stupid" and move on.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 3:20 PM
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [blparent] It really happens
>
>> Ok, this is the way it went. Gab and I went to the park yesterday
>> evening
>> to kick a ball. We bought one of those big rubber balls found in a big
>> net
>> in most supermarkets. Gab would kick it to me and as it swished past on
>> the
>> grass it would make just that sound. Then in return I'd kick it way up
>> high
>> and she'd run to get it.
>> Well there was a younger girl watching us and she asked Gab why I didn't
>> just walk up to it when it landed near me. I used my cane to find it.
>> Gab
>> told her that I was blind and this is how I found the ball. The girl,
>> probably around 8, asked if she could play with us and we said
>> absolutely.
>> She said she had to ask her dad first and off she went to ask him. We
>> continued playing. A few moments later she returned and announced that
>> her
>> dad said she could not play with us since I was blind. Iwas shocked and
>> offered to go talk to her dad. But she said when he says no, that is
>> that.
>> So since gab likes playing with the kids at the park, I sat on the bench
>> and
>> let the girls play.
>> That was the first time, I think, I have had someone say that. Weird! V
>>
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