[blparent] Educating society about blindness

[Deborah Kent Stein]

I sometimes point out how busy emergency rooms are twenty-four hours a day, 
handling people who have had every sort of accident, imagineable and 
unimagineable - and almost all of those accident victims are sighted.  Go 
figure.

Debbie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Educating society about blindness


> 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
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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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