[stylist] does anyone

[Donna Hill]

April,
I didn't know he took a position on that.  I get a little squeemish 
whenever someone makes a blanket recommendation like that -- as if what 
works for one person is the way things should be -- it really irritates 
me.  David's wife was sighted, of course, and she was extremely 
supportive and helpful to him.  Maybe he felt that he couldn't have 
achieved what he did if he'd had a blind wife.

I heard an opposite perspective many years ago when I went for my first 
guide dog.  I became friendly with an older blind woman whose husband 
was blind.  She warned me to stay away from sighted men.  Her 
perspective was that they either use you or they are overprotective.  I 
married a sighted man 18 years ago and we are very happy; he is 
supportive and just protective enough to be gallant in my eyes.  On the 
other hand, my brother, who is also blind, married a blind woman over 
thirty years ago and they are very happy.  They got their master's 
degrees together, which I attribute to her, since he never seemed to be 
inclined on his own.
Donna

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April Enderton wrote:
> Hi Donna,
>
> Yes, that is thee David Hartman.  How interesting that you interviewed him.
> I wrote him a letter once. My professor in my reading and writing
> autobiography class thought I should send it to him, but never did.  I said
> a lot of positive things in the letter, but I challenged his position on
> blind people marrying other blind people.  He didn't feel that the blind
> should intermarry.  I was really disappointed on his point of view on that
> subject when he seemed to be right on target with so many other things.  If
> I can find that letter and if you would be interested, I can share it with
> you.
>
> April
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Donna Hill
> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 10:46 AM
> To: NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [stylist] does anyone
>
> April,
> Is this David Hartman the guy who went to medical school?  I used to do
> radio interviews for the Radio Information Center for the Blind in
> Philadelphia -- between 1976 and 1986 -- and I interviewed him and his wife.
> He was attending Temple Medical School and living in the Germantown section
> of Philly not far from where I lived.
> Donna
>
>   




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