[nabs-l] pannel

[Hannah Jones]

I agree with you... or... they just grab me out of nowhere... or, when i am
waiting for the bus calling the cops... Still not sure why they did that.

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Nicole B. Torcolini <
ntorcolini at wavecable.com> wrote:

> I forget the exact numbers, but I read in a book once that the word blind
> refers to just a tiny bit of vision loss to totally blind. Blind is not
> like
> the word deaf; deaf usually means no hearing or not enough to comprehend
> speech, but blind refers to the entire range.
> Maybe tell them how they can best assist you. One of my pet peeves (and I
> that people just don't know better) is when someone goes to lead me, and
> they grab me instead of letting me hold onto their arm.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lora and Myrtle" <blindhistory at gmail.com>
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 11:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] pannel
>
>
> there are varying degrees of blindness. I am legally blind and people alot
> of the time don't think I am blind because I can see color.
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Hannah Jones <hjones711 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> > Long time no email from me, sorry about that. I talked to my mentor at
> > college today, and being that this was the second time we met, we talked
> a
> > lot about blindness, I told her that i would prefer people ask me
> > questions
> > than just stare... So we decided to do a pannel... to have one blind
> > person
> > (me), a deaf person, and a person in a wheelchair, besides the question
> > and
> > answer part any ideas of what i should say?
> > --
> > god bless
> > Hannah
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> Lora and Leader Dog Myrtle
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-- 
god bless
Hannah