[nagdu] Question

Julie McGinnity kaybaycar at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 05:28:34 UTC 2011


This goes for the dog harness as well.  I don't understand why people
think it's ok to touch the dog harness when we are working.  I've had
people try and grab the harness handle to lead me away from something.
 Um...  That's the dog's job.  Why?  Why do they think it's ok.

I asked my mom, who is sighted, one time if sighted people randomly
came up and grabbed other sighted people, and she said no.  So...  Why
would sighted people think they can do it to blind people?  It's
definitely one of my biggest annoyances.

Now if you come up randomly and touch my face...  You are getting
punched!  I'm sorry, but that is just scary!

On 10/16/11, Sheila Leigland <sleigland at bresnan.net> wrote:
> BLENDA i DON'T KNOW WHAT THE LAWS ARE, BUT WHAT BOTHERS ME IS THAT IS SEEM
> AS THOUGH IF WE ARE BLIND WE NEED TO JUST ACCEPT WHAT OTHERS SAY OR DO. mY
> HUSBAND AND MYSELF AND CHILD WERE WAITING FOR A BUS ONE DAY AND A STRANGER
> OFFERED US A RIDE AND WE SAID NO AND HE PROMPTLY SAID TO hELL WITH YOU THEN
> JUST BECAUSE WE CHOSE TO SAY NO TO A RIDE. I WOULD HAV NEVER PLACED MYSELF
> MY HUSBAND OR ESPECIALLY MY YOUNG CHILD IN A VEHICLE WITH SOMEONE i DIDN'T
> KNOW AND NOW i WOULDN'T DO IT WITH MY DOG. iT DOESN'T MATTER TO ME IF THE
> PERSON HAS PURE MOTIVES OR NOT. THERE ISN'T ALWAYS A WAY TO KNOW AND IT IS
> NOT A RISK THAT i WANT TO TAKE AND AS  A BLIND PERSON i HAVE AS MUCH RIGHT
> TO SAY YES OR NO AS THE SIGHTED PERSON DOES.
>
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-- 
Julie McG
 Lindbergh High School class of 2009, participating member in Opera
Theater's Artist in Training Program, and proud graduate of Guiding
Eyes for the Blind

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that
everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal
life."
John 3:16




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