[Ohio-talk] The BuzzClip And My View

[Barbara Shaidnagle]

my late husband was a proud cane user and never considered anything else...

On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 3:40 PM, <milenacleve at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> Hi Barbara,
>
> I only post these technology items for informational purposes, although I
> might not agree with their message.
>
> With reference to the cane being an obhject of shame, I agree with you,
> although it wasn't mentioned on the blurb or on the video that it's
> shameful to have a cane.
>
> Lots of these companies want you to think that you can't get along without
> their items; that the only way to be a competent, successful and confident
> blind person is to buy their product.  I disagree strongly.  No amount of
> technology can replace the cane or the dog, for that matter.  Using
> technology as a shortcut to effective travel does not prepare you to face
> the rigors of street traffic or rural environments.  Yes, the cane and the
> dog will lead you around obstacles just fine.  Of course, the cane user
> needs a long, white cane that goes at least up to your nose.  My cane goes
> about five inches over my head, affording me prenty of protection and
> obstacle awareness even way before I get near them.  It's true that it
> doesn't offer me overhead information, and the BuzzClip and other similar
> technologies would help with that, but for these companies to say that
> technology makes a blind person a more successful, competent and confident
> traveler is absurd.  Only good, solid mobility training, the kind that NFB
> centers or NFB-style centers provide, is what will make a blind person an
> effective traveler.  The old school techniques are the tried-and-true
> yardstick that measures your travel competency and street savvy.
> Technology should never replace the level of practice, experience and
> wisdom that solid training provides.  The best it can do is possibly equip
> you with more information to allow you to make good decisions on the fly.
>
> By the way, blindness is what you make of it.  Being shameful or hating
> your blindness prevents you from moving forward in your life.  Rising above
> the nuisances of blindness will secure a better attitude for loving
> yourself and others.  Blindness will then be just viewed as an
> inconvenience, nothing more.
>
> Thank you for your attention.
>
> Milena
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