[blparent] Educating society about blindness

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Wow, I guess we could all go back to cave man days--wait, no, they had fire. 
We might get burned.  I cut my finger opening a package of hot dogs once 
with a knife, and someone remarked about how hard it must be to use knives 
when you were blind.  I just said, what, you never cut yourself before? 
That ended the conversation.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Sheila Leigland" <sleigland at bresnan.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 3:19 PM
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Educating society about blindness

> Hi jo elizabeth that is so frustrating. I don't think I will understand 
> ever why because we are blind so much less is expected of us. Like my 
> husband says five year old kids have more sense. When Mark was in the 
> first grade we gave a presentation to his class and his teacher had a fit 
> about me using a knife. I'm sorry but it is rather difficult to cook 
> without using a knife and god forbid getting close to the heat on a stove. 
> You can't cook without heat or slicing or cutting food.
>
> Sheila Leigland
>
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