[nabs-l] Cane as an ID

[Mike Freeman]

Hamid:

With all due respect, it seems to me you're trying to have your cake and eat
it, too. ON the one hand, you want all the advantages of being recognized as
blind whereas on the other, you don't want to really appear blind or be
judged because you do not believe you need a cane. My friend, you can't have
it both ways. Why do you even care whether the public considers you blind or
not or whether they consider it weird that you might appear to not need a
cane? Moreover, aren't you under the tacit assumption that blind persons who
use canes travel sufficiently awkwardly that the public knows them as blind
whereas you consider that you do not?

Seems to me you have some soul-searching to do.

We do not have a "blind" id other than the long white cane and most of us
would not *want* such a label. It's a short step from such a label to being
prohibited from going places or doing things because of the alleged
inability of the blind.

Grab that white cane, display and use it proudly!

Mike Freeman


-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Hamid Hamraz
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 3:40 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: [nabs-l] Cane as an ID

Dear Folks,

It is a couple of months I have been investigating a way to represent my
blindness without making a functional use of cane. To be more precise, the
target people benefiting are those whose residual sight lets them to walk
without the use of a cane and who want to let the other people around them
know about their blindness. Carrying a cane is indeed an option. However, I
personally think that holding a long cane in my hand without using it and
walking perfectly is weird in public. In Germany, they have a special symbol
representing this which can be attached anywhere in any size at one's own
discretion (and everybody is indeed aware of that). However, there is no
such a thing here in US, and setting that up requires time and educating the
society about that.


My question here is what type of cane I should look for? I need something
much smaller just to serve as an ID rather than a functional tool. I
appreciate any suggestion.

Hamid
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