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

[lindagwizdak at peoplepc.com]

Yeah, Buddy, I've seen that myself.  Whether people are born blind or not 
doesn't matter.  That blind person still was raised in a society full of bad 
attitudes about blindness and we also internaize that attitude ourselves. 
The NFB provides lots of food for thought on that score!  It has helped me.

Linda and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Buddy Brannan" <buddy at brannan.name>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Jury finds IA Dept. for Blind'sguidedog policy does 
notdiscriminate


>
> 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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