[blparent] This is Cool

Sat Jan 26 01:04:10 UTC 2013

When I started in public school in 1976, I was the first blind child in the 
district, and one of the very first handicapped students at all.  I remember 
thinking many times during my public school years that my peers, and kids 
everywhere, would be better adults because they were getting exposed to kids 
with disabilities from a young age.  Maybe a lot of them did learn a thing 
or two, but apparently it wasn't enough.  Now I can only hope that 35 years 
later, with a generation of parents who were around people with special 
needs from childhood, raising their own children, maybe things will be a 
little better twenty years from now when those more enlightened kids grow 
up.  Change happens way too slowly!

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may 
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at 
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jeri Milton
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 5:54 PM
To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blparent] This is Cool

When I was in college, my final paper was on educating children about
individuals with different types of disabilities. I feel that if the
teaching about this begins in childhood then maybe when they reach
adulthood, they'll have a greater understanding and this would prevent them
from making a horses behind out of themselves.
When we took our Make a Wish trip for our daughter, I told Dylan and my
step son that we would be meeting all different kinds of people. Some
children may be sicker than others, some in wheel chairs, some with oxygen,
some with no hair and the list goes on. Dylan became friends with some
children who had been going through chemo and were totally balled. One was a
seven year old boy just like him. I know as he grows up, he'll have a
knowledge and an understanding of how things can happen to others. Anyway, I
got an A on that paper. Smile.

Jeri

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of JA
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 12:29 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] This is Cool

I completely agree. Sometimes, I don't whether to laugh or cry when I see
ignorant people. Many times, I have met people who are scared to touch me
(when guiding me) as if they think blindness can spread by touch.

On 1/24/13, Jo Elizabeth Pinto <jopinto at msn.com> wrote:
> Me too.  I actually did have a family leave a restaurant once,
> twenty-some years ago, because they didn't want to sit next to a blind
> person.  I felt bad, but the waitress and the manager told me it was
> their loss.  They left
>
> their entire meal--salads, drinks, everything--which they paid for on
> their
>
> way out.  Such small minds.  The thing that impressed me was the
> waiter having the nerve to stand up for the kid, caring more about
> doing the right
>
> thing than keeping his job, and the restaurant owners backing him up.
> Of course, now I saw on the news that the place is packed and
> everybody wants to meet this great guy.  I wish guts and kindness
> weren't so rare as to be a
>
> news story.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you
> may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and
> full at evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeri Milton
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:27 AM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] This is Cool
>
> This story makes me so sad. That was great for the waiter to stand up
> for the child. What makes me so flipping sad is the way some people
> are around those who have a disability or a quote unquote special
> need. What the hell is wrong with people? It really just makes me sick.
>
> Jeri
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
> Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 2:19 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] This is Cool
>
> HOUSTON, Texas -- A Texas waiter who went out of his way for a special
> young customer has people talking.
>
> Kim Castillo says she and her family were having a typical dinner out
> when a family at an adjacent table got up and moved, according to
> ABC-affiliate KTRK. When waiter Michael Garcia realized it was because
> of Castillo's 5-year-old son Milo, who has Down Syndrome, he told the
> guests he wouldn't serve them.
>
> "He said special needs children need to be special somewhere else.
> That's like saying, 'You don't need to be here, you're a different skin
color,"
> says Garcia.
>
> The family that owns the restaurant is supporting Garcia's decision,
> and Castillo's family is grateful he stood up for Milo.
>
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you
> may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and
> full at evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Thank you
JA
"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they
can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember,
you can achieve." by Mary Kay Ash

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