[blparent] Eating when blind

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

I had challenges learning to cut food and keep a spoon level to eat some 
stuff like soup, but I grew up blind.  So I was a child learning to use 
utensils at the same time.


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: "Bridgit Pollpeter" <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 2:20 PM
To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [blparent] Eating when blind

> I actually don't understand this because I was fully sighted until 22,
> then within a year, was essentially totally blind from a viral
> infection, then was not able to go to a training center for almost
> another year because I was still recovering from my illness. Eating was
> never a problem. I didn't even stop to consider if I could wield
> utensils or "practice" doing it. In fact, cooking wasn't an issue
> either. I just went into the kitchen one day and started making stuff,
> problem solving as I went along. I say all this not to act superior or
> something, but to say I truly don't understand how something like eating
> could be a difficult task, and yes, I know others myself who have done
> the same thing. There was no "adjustment" in terms of using utensils
> when I lost my sight, and certainly no food in the hair, grin!
>
> Sincerely,
> Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
> Read my blog at:
> http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
>
> "History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
> The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
>
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> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:31:16 -0700
> From: "Tay Laurie" <j.t.laurie at gmail.com>
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> Y'know, I haven't gotten questions like that, except from my
> garndparents
> who took me in as a kid, they wanted to know how I ate and didn't stuff
> the
> fork up my nose. So I told them to close their eyes and try it. My
> grandfather ended up with mashed potatoes in his hair. I guess it takes
> getting used to the spacial difference by touch rather than sight.
>
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