[stylist] question

[John Lee Clark]

Barbara:

Not to complicate things for you, but here's a little twist.  I've found
that being left-handed is great if you're a Braille reader.  One of the
coolest things is that I can have my right thumb stay on the advance key on
my display while my left forefinger reads.  No need to reassign the "wrong"
key to be the advance key for forward.  So the right one stays right.

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Barbara Hammel
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:43 PM
To: NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] question

If I remember correctly, I think I picked it up at convention a couple of 
years ago.  It was at the Independence Market.  But it most definitely is 
easier to be a lefty than to be blind.  It is awful awkward to open a can 
with a right-handed can-opener.  I do appreciate what he was trying to say 
and he is right.  All we can do is keep plodding down the road and make it 
smoother for those who come behind.  For all we know, maybe we're still just

the steamrollers which are flattening out that road.  Or are we to the point

of the painter who puts the lines down?  Building things by hand one block 
at a time can take a long time if you are doing it right.  But, you know, we

all take one step forward and two steps back sometimes.  Some of us go two 
steps forward and one step back, wouldn't we all like to be that way.  For 
what one builds for years can be destroyed in the blink of an eye.
Now where was I really going with this E-mail?
Barbara

If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.

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From: <LoriStay at aol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:20 PM
To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [stylist] question

> You need to read the Left Handed Dissertation!   Dr. Jernigan may have
> delivered this as a banquet speech.   It's wonderful.   Anyone know how to

> find it?
> Is it on the nfb website?
> Lori
> In a message dated 3/24/09 12:34:00 PM, jbron at optonline.net writes:
>
>
>> One of my kids is left handed. She uses left handed scissors, holds a pen
>> in her left hand and I was never able to teach her how to crochet. She 
>> just
>> does things differently. She is an accomplished woman with a beautiful
>> family. So she does things differently. Bottom line is that she does what
>> she has to or wants to. Is she part off an "ism"? Should extra funds be
>> made avaiolable to her because she is not right handed? If she baked a
>> cookie would you refuse to eat it because someone left handed made it? Or
>> would you feel benevolent because you ate the cookie in spite of
>> "disabilities"? There are some societies where if they see a child 
>> favoring
>> their left hand they tie the hand behind the child's back so they will be
>> forced to use the right hand. In some countries if a person is caught
>> stealing they cut off the right hand. Society has enslaved our mores. 
>> Just
>> be human, John. What more can anyone expect from you? Judith
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
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