[nagdu] Jury finds IA Dept. for Blind'sguidedog policy does notdiscriminate

[JULIE PHILLIPSON]

Of course not allot of other variables are at play too such as how parents 
raised you, types of environments someone has been in, how other people have 
treated the person, the level of maturity one has and so on.
Julie Phillipson
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From: "Buddy Brannan" <buddy at brannan.name>
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>
> On Feb 21, 2009, at 7:41 PM, JULIE PHILLIPSON wrote:
>
>> but again you are blind and have always been blind.
>
> Which really doesn't have much of anything to do with much of
> anything. Just because one has been blind from birth does not
> automatically mean s/he has accepted or adjusted to blindness. It's
> certainly possible for someone blind from birth to strongly resent
> blindness, to believe it not to be respectable, to find it an
> insurmountable barrier to a full and productive life. Clearly Margo
> doesn't find it so, but living with blindness for your whole life
> doesn't necessarily make you well adjusted to it.
>
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