[nabs-l] why I want a mac

Tue Jul 24 19:39:57 UTC 2012

Beth,
I agree. If parents buy cars and miscellenous stuff for other children, then 
they should buy a computer for a blind child. I don't like how they shove 
all purchases on rehab just since a kid is blind. Its like they feel its not 
their responsibility since the agency will take care of it. not right.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Beth
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 1:49 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] why I want a mac

OH, I don't know.  Parents are interesting people. :)  My parents
bought my last PC, but they probably won't be buying any more if
I think about it any longer.  They'd rather buy their teenage
sons cars, or they'd rather let my brother, who is now 21, or is
he 22?  I'm going on 26 but that's not the point.  My brother
gets an expensive trumpet from iIndiana and a car of his own, but
yet I don't get a computer when I need it the most.  YEs, they
bought me two Ddells, but both of them broke.  Both of them
broke.  So now they're stuck with a broken PC wiith a bad hard
drive, and my ex roommate tried to fix it.
I think it should be their responsibility anyway because they
need to support me.
They're my parents, they (especially my mom) had me in the first
place, so it's their responsibility to provide if I'm not a
successful lawyer.  And there's no way I'm getting a lwa degree
so I can get rich off of people's pains anywagy.
Beth

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:11:53 -0400
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] why I want a mac

Hi,
I was more so thinking of the computer. It seems like many
students have
rehab buy  computers. I'm thinking that parents should buy some
equipment
such as computers. No, not a notetaker, but other equipment seems
reasonable.

-----Original Message-----
From: Littlefield, Tyler
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 12:07 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] why I want a mac

Ashly,
I don't want to be mean, but coming out and saying what needs to
be said
should be good. Granted I may as well be talking to a wall at
this
point, since she is stuck on the mac and the reasons for it keep
changing, but whatever.

As for parents being required to help blind people, they already
do. My
brother got his car for $800 or so. Maybe he had help, I honestly
have
no clue. But part of the money he put in. Unless parents are
dropping
10+k on a car, justifying "I need a braille note because joe got
a car,"
doesn't quite work. Your braille note costed at least 5 times
more than
a reliable car did, not to mention your pc.
On 7/24/2012 9:06 AM, Ashley Bramlett wrote:
Tyler,
While I agree Beth needs to comprimise, I also think perhaps we
should be
supportive.
A lot of people struggle getting what they need through rehab. I
said
pretty much the same thing as you, without being blunt.
I wonder, has anyone had rehab purchase a mac? I still have over
50
messages to read on the rehab thread,
but I don't think any nabster has come forward and said rehab
got them a
mac.
I say this  to point out that many people like macs for various
reasons,
but rehab did
not get them one.

Anyway, Beth, I'd suggest you justify that and if you cannot,
then get a
pc through them.
At this point, it sounds like you'd be lucky for them to pay for
college a
third time for you.
I'd be thankful if they paid for college and get a  mac through
other
means.

You know all, as a side note this is why parents IMO should get
equipment
for students. Some cannot afford it I know. But it seems to me
parents
should buy more equipment for blind children rather than relying
on the
government for it!  Its part of being a supportive parent.
Parents get
sighted kids cars, car insurance, many visual entertainment
games
including the wii and playstation, computers, computer
accessories, and
more. Yet blind children do not get computers and the software
to run
them. Something is wrong with this picture. BTW, my parents
bought my pc,
but not my braille note. So they did share some of the cost of
buying
equipment and sending me to school which is part of rasing a
kid.

Ashley

-----Original Message----- From: Littlefield, Tyler
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:36 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] why I want a mac

It really sounds like you're just trying to jump on the mac band
waggon.
Great, "universal" accessibility. Now call apple and ask a
voiceover
question. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It sounds
like
you're changing your mind as to why you want it, which is fine I
guess,
but you really need to figure out why it is you need a mac. You
get good
tech support from a lot of companies that sell pcs too, so
that's out as
well.

Basically here's what this comes down to.
You can keep complaining about dvr and not getting a mac. You've
said
you failed college twice already, and they won't put you through
it
again. At this point, you need to accept whatever you can get,
compromize and work with them. Going in requesting a $1500
system and
holding to it when they already have issues about putting you
through
school for the third time isn't going to get you anywhere. It's
all your
choice, just wanted to throw all that out there.
On 7/24/2012 3:13 AM, Beth wrote:
Hi, all.
To explain why I would like a Mac is simple: universal
accessibility
integrated into the product.  Also, I really want something with
good
tech support.  The tech support people from India sometimes
don't speak
good English, and given the demographics of india and its
people,
blindness is not thought to be a good thing in India.  So if I
said,
"Whuat do I do because JAWs isn't working?"  They'll have no
answer for
me. That's all I can say.  There are other reasons I want a mac,
and I
want to be able to use one so bad.
Beth

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