[nagdu] Photos and blindness

[lindagwizdak at peoplepc.com]

Jeffrey,
I can understand that!  I do envy those who can just take their bike out and 
ride everywhere!  I used to be a very high partial back when I was a 
teenager and I rode my bike everywhere, including to school.  I love to ride 
a bike and now I can't unless it is on a tandem bike with a fully sighted 
person driving.

I think what happens sometimes is that us partials feel that the totals 
begrudge us for using what little sight we have left.  I do know that at the 
blind schools there was a hierarchy where the partials were "better" than 
the totals - not unlike how some blacks feel that light skin is "better" 
than very dark skin.

To be partially sighted is to be more misunderstood by the sighted public. 
When a sighted person encounters a totally blind person, they think, "Oh, he 
just sees blackness." even though you really don't see black - it is just 
nothing like imagining seeing out of the back of your head.  Then there are 
the totals with light perception.  Sighted people just think, well, almost 
black!  Partials have such a wide range of visual acuity and a wide range of 
how that acuity works - what kinds of lighting varieties.  We just befuddle 
the sighted folk and they think we're faking it.  Some people aren't very 
nice about it either.

I never bought into that "partials are better than totals" thing because I 
grew up with BOTH totals and partials and I never went to blind school.

Totals should NEVER feel inferior and nobody should treat totals like they 
were inferior - they are not!  Our eyes' level of functioning has nothing to 
do with who we are as people, they're just a small part of what makes us who 
we are.

We all need each other to take our rightful places in society.

Regards,

Linda and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeffrey Schwartz" <sidney.schwartz at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] FW: photos finally


> Guess that I'm just jealous.  One of life's little ironies.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of sblanjones11
> Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 8:59 PM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] FW: photos finally
>
> Jeffrey,
> There are some partially sighted people on this list who can see the pics.
> Mind you, (smile) I'm not one of them, but for those who can, GREAT!
> Susan & Rhoda
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Jeffrey Schwartz
> Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 8:02 PM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] FW: photos finally
>
> Not to offend, but do you realize that you are sending photographs to a
> group of blind people.  It does not quite feel politically correct.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Bunny Davidson
> Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 5:10 PM
> To: bunnydavidson at live.com
> Subject: [nagdu] FW: photos finally
>
>
> hi all,
> i finally made time to upload the digital pix from the icestorm here that
> left me without power, water and rest for a week (dec11-17th)
>
> notice how many trees are broken, and also - the snow we had (about 6-8" 
> had
> already melted before this one inch of ice coated every blade of grass, 
> tree
> and thing outside.
> the dark ones with orange were taken starting at 530 am on friday dec12, 
> the
> storm of ice knocked out power on the day before (thurs dec 11) the ones
> where it looks more daylight were taken about monday, ice still cliniging 
> on
> - no power yet (not for a week in all). the moose i saw in bottom right of
> the sunrise shots did not show up in the pictures (i guess it was too dark
> out yet) the photos of dogs tied out with coats on, i tied them on a walk 
> up
> my road to take photos of them... we had that snow before storm, then it
> melted, then the ice came.   hope you are all feeling the love of the
> holiday season,
> bunny
>
>
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