[nabs-l] Serving Yourself Food

[Harry Hogue]

Are you totally blind, David?  I definitely think that adds a bit more adjustment - but not difficulty since you can do it, like you said, through trial and error and knowing and believing you can.
 
Harry
 


--- On Mon, 11/10/08, Dave Wright <gymnastdave at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

From: Dave Wright <gymnastdave at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Serving Yourself Food
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Date: Monday, November 10, 2008, 11:52 PM

Good evening Harry,
I know this seemingly simple task can be potentially fearsome as you are
probably worried about perhaps embarrassing yourself and or spilling.
I think like all things you learn how to do tasks properly by trial and error.
Even though I've been serving myself for years, I occasionally spill. This
has nothing to do with my blindness, but rather my ability to pay attention to
what I'm doing. Usually when I spill, it's something we all can laugh at
rather than being too horribly embarrassed. Now, it's more likely that a
sighted individual at gatherings will spill before I do.
In terms of knowing how much food to get, this is somewhat relative, but
needless to say, don't get more than you know you can eat. As you mentioned
in your last message, people have a number of ways of doing this ranging from
number of servings to weight etc. I actually utilize all of these concepts.
All this to say that serving oneself is definitely a step toward a sense of
personal independence. As I mentioned above, trial and error is ok. Serve
yourself when there are less people around so you get a hang of how it's
done. Hope this helps.



Best Regards:
David Wright

Email: dwrigh6 at uic.edu
Mobile: