[nabs-l] The Importance Of Independent Travel

[Kirt]

Karlee,
In general, I trust members of a group to advocate that group standards more than, say, disillusioned outsiders. I'm not going to learn about Islam, for example, from an evangelical Christian. Nor will I go to Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh to learn about The policies of Barack Obama. For that matter, I won't go to MSNBC to learn about the tea party. I think you see where I'm going with this.
Best,
Kirt

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> On Aug 28, 2014, at 5:45 AM, Carly Mihalakis via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Good morning,
> 
> Personally, I like to think of it as interdependent travel, recruting your fellow man, and sort of directing him where you need to go. Admittedly, this means of travel found me after becoming injured such that I was unable to keep track of direction and what they call rout reversal, became for me no more than a pipe dream.
> 
> In my experience, however, if you just let go of this idea that to prove to Ol'Sighty of  blindness' being  what is it, little more than a mere inconvenience, everyone must be some kind of super blink whom, by simply waving his long, white cane can travel any course, under any circumstances in pitch ocular darkness. Sure, this social construct is certainly possible to live within and many people do it, but not everybody is super Federationist blink!
> 
> After all, interpersonal contact, I believe, is more of a palpable, alternative to demonstrating to Ol'Sighty things of which most of us are capable, that Ol'Sighty might remember. I'm fond of iterating that Ol'Sighty cares not about the means to which the blink reaches the same ends, noticing only that, eventually he gets there. So, if it becomes a matter of walking through an airport, say, to demonstrate to Ol'Sighty ways in which most blinks can, and do advocate for themselves, it may be a plausible course of action to grab Ol'Sighty from one of the hoards that are invariably around and, placing your hand on his shoulder, tell him where you need to be and see if he can help you. Of course, should he be in a hurry you can find someone else, but wait for an indication of said sighted person being unable to help. It is in this way you can actually have a conversation with a sighted person, maybe even exchange names?
> Agreed, the super blink means of seamlessly gliding through a crowd is intimidating, and not exactly if I may say so myself, realistic of every blink. Let that go! Probably, you are not a super blink, at least by their rigid standards.
> for today, Car
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>  :52 AM 7/16/2014, Roanna Bacchus via nabs-l wrote:
>> Dear Students,
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>> I'd like to discuss another topic with all of you.  On Monday I had a conversation with my mobility instructor during my training session at UCF.  We were talking about the importance of traveling independently as blind individuals.  I got very emotional while we were having this conversation and began to cry.  Because I've never traveled independently in the community, I lack the experience of traveling on my own.  Can each of you tell me your stories about inarependent travel? Hope to hear from you soon.
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