[Nfbmo] Myth Busters

Susan Ford johnsusanford at earthlink.net
Fri Oct 14 04:43:20 UTC 2011


And then there is the woman who asked Brenda when she was four years old, if 
she helped her Mommy.  "I'll bet you help her to cross the street, don't 
you?" she said.  My daughter, who showed more smarts said,  "My Mommy helps 
me cross the street until I get bigger."

----- 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>
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> 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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