[stylist] question

Thu Mar 26 03:03:50 UTC 2009

I'm a right-handed Braille reader.  I always tell folks that my left hand is 
the doer and my righ hand is my eyes.
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: "John Lee Clark" <johnlee at clarktouch.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:24 AM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] question

> 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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