[blparent] Eating when blind

[Lea williams]

I use to have eye site but I had to learn how to cut my food without
pushing it off the plate. cutting it was the easy part. Serving my
self food was also a chalenge because I was not sure how much food I
was scooping up at first.

On 3/7/12, Jo Elizabeth Pinto <jopinto at msn.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> Message: 10
>> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:31:16 -0700
>> From: "Tay Laurie" <j.t.laurie at gmail.com>
>> To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Teaching society about blindness
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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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