[nagdu] Photos and blindness

Merry Schoch merrys at verizon.net
Fri Dec 26 20:56:28 UTC 2008


Hi,

Marion and I just started riding a tantum.  I'm a partial and I do the 
navigating.  We have only used it the past 2 days; however, I have really 
loved it, and as time goes on I am sure we will ride in a way that is 
smooth.  Kinda like when you first start using a guide dog for the first 
time - then as time goes on we smooth out.

Happy New Year!!
Merry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <lindagwizdak at peoplepc.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 2:47 PM
Subject: [nagdu] Photos and blindness


> 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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