[nagdu] Impact of visual acuity was Introduction and Questions

[Lisa belville]

I agree.  I can remember back in the 90's anything politically correct like 
that was shunned.  Still, I think it's easier to understand for the general 
public.


Hey, guess what! guess what! guess what! Aww crap, I forgot!
Lisa Belville
missktlab1217 at frontier.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Impact of visual acuity was Introduction and Questions


> There are sure differences in the degrees of blindness; and of course I 
> think (or at least this is my observation) NFB is tolerating the term 
> "visually impaired" more readily than in the past. Though that may not be 
> by choice. Anyway, that's not the discussion here. Whether we see or don't 
> isn't the only thing that makes us do what we do. I might be slower than 
> someone else in some things and that person might be partially sighted and 
> I might be totally blind, but my totally blind husband might be way faster 
> at it than I am. We are all different, and sight vs. total blindness would 
> not be the only indicator. I think in the current age so much is turning 
> to visual that there are many things becoming more difficult. I also think 
> that it is plenty hard to trust a dog even if you are totally blind, 
> especially when the two of you don't know each other well. I suspect that 
> it gets easier over time, but with my first one I had no trust. So while I 
> think it is fine for people who hav
> e usable vision to get a dog if that's what they want and feel they need, 
> i do find it harder to imagine that they develop the trust they need even 
> close to as fast as I did because they will use their eyes to do many 
> things rather than relying on the dog to help them. Of course that, too, 
> depends on the sort of vision someone has, so there is no black and white 
> here. It all seems to me to be shades of gray.
>
>
>
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