[Nfbmo] Myth Busters

[Debbie Wunder]

Hi Dick, how are you and the family? I remember Kevin smiling very big for 
chicken nuggets, and for the movie Christmas Story. Give him a hug from me!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Morris" <dickmorris at netzero.net>
To: "NFB of Missouri Mailing List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Myth Busters


> Gail, I might even be able to go Myth Busters one better...shortly after 
> we
> adopted Kevin, some lady at our bank told us that blind children had to be
> taught how to smile! Supposedly she'd gotten that from Springfield's
> Visually Impaired Preschool.
>
> Later, Kevin went to VIP. We talked to the teacher, who was flabbergasted,
> to say the least, that someone had a) made that remark, and b) had
> attributed it to VIP. The teacher's philosophy was, "they're children 
> first,
> and blind fourth or fifth."
>
> Oh, and Kevin never did have to be taught how to smile. <G>.
>
> Dick
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Matthew Sievert" <msievert at sbcglobal.net>
> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 3:18 PM
> To: "NFB of Missouri Mailing List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Myth Busters
>
> Gail, thanks for the note.
>
> I will go try to find the episode.
>
> I stopped watching the show many years ago.
>
> Generalizations are really bad.
> I hope we can educate folks about us, so myths like the one on the show 
> are
> not propagated to the sighted world as absolute truth.
>
> Matt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Gail Bryant" <gbryant at socket.net>
> Sender: nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org
> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:32:13
> To: 'NFB of Missouri Mailing List'<nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
> Reply-To: NFB of Missouri Mailing List <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [Nfbmo] Myth Busters
>
> This morning someone told me they had learned something about blind 
> people.
> They learned that blind people cannot walk a straight line.  They learned 
> it
> from the reality show Myth Busters. This poor lady was all excited because
> of course it had to be true, and besides it was funny!
>
>
>
> I asked her if they had actual blind people on the show or if these were
> sighted folks who had been blindfolded.  Of course they were blindfolded
> sighted folks pretending to be blind. So if they couldn't walk a straight
> line, neither could the actual blind person.
>
>
>
> So on the soapbox I went. I explained about properly trained blind people
> being able to walk a straight line. Now, I didn't watch the show. So I
> don''t know what actually happened. If this well educated person believed
> this nonsense, think of the negativity this can bring us. We work so hard 
> to
> get rid of stereotypes and then this.
>
>
>
> Gail Bryant
>
> Columbia Braille Teaching Services L.L.C.
>
> 1212 London Drive
>
> Columbia, MO 65203-2012
>
> Phone: (573)817-5993
>
> Cell: (573)268-4962
>
> gbryant at socket.net
>
>
>
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