[stylist] Does anyone want to be blind?

Frank Lordi timber_wolf899 at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 26 20:56:32 UTC 2009 

alright lets see.....Never married (though not for lack of trying! ha) and no kids.  I'm a full time business analyst and part time real estate agent.  My vision loss was caused by glaucoma.    

residual vision, boy that term feels odd.   anyway thanks in advance for your advice.


--- On Thu, 3/26/09, Angela fowler <fowlers at syix.com> wrote:

> From: Angela fowler <fowlers at syix.com>
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Does anyone want to be blind?
> To: "'NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 12:48 AM
> Partner, you're not alone. Most folks who have residual
> vision feel just
> like you do. Its perfectly natural. 
> 	So, tell me a little about yourself... Do you have a
> wife/kids? What
> do you do? What caused your loss of vision? This
> information will allow us
> to help you.  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Frank Lordi
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 8:35 PM
> To: NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Does anyone want to be blind?
> 
> 
> guys i just don't get it...
> 
> I mean I get the difficulties of using the wrong techniques
> and learning
> methods...  But to have the ability to actually
> 'look' at something.  I've
> got 20/400-600 in my functional eye and wouldnt trade that
> little bit for
> the world.   
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 3/25/09, James Canaday M.A. N6YR
> <n6yr at sunflower.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: James Canaday M.A. N6YR
> <n6yr at sunflower.com>
> > Subject: Re: [stylist] Does anyone want to be blind?
> > To: "NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing
> List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> > Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 10:29 PM yes, reading
> with my one 
> > squinty eye gave me headaches too.
> > personally I think far far too often the educrats
> resort to "sight 
> > saving" techniques when they should push braille
> and other blindness 
> > methods and skills.
> > jc
> > 
> > Jim Canaday M.A.
> > Lawrence, KS
> > 
> > At 07:06 PM 3/25/2009, you wrote:
> > >Jim: I can identify with that since I was glad to
> lose
> > the rest of my
> > >hearing for similar reasons. Being presurized into
> > verbal
> > >communication methods that I struggled with with
> > powerful migrane
> > >inducing hearing aids. Phew! I was glad when that
> was
> > over.
> > >
> > >Helene
> > >
> > >On 26/03/2009, James Canaday M.A.  N6YR
> > <n6yr at sunflower.com> wrote:
> > > > once I became blind I was then taught
> braille and
> > the audio reading
> > > > methods.  that made reading much much more
> > pleasurable and
> > > > easier!  "sight saving" meant I
> was
> > reading with my one squinty eye
> > > > peering through jewelers' loop
> magnification
> > lenses that came down in
> > > > front of my glasses lense.  I would not have
> gone
> > to college if I had
> > > > not lost my sight at age thirteen.
> > > > jc
> > > >
> > > > Jim Canaday M.A.
> > > > Lawrence, KS
> > > >
> > > > At 06:38 PM 3/25/2009, you wrote:
> > > >>I wasn't really thinking of people
> already
> > blind although I've heard
> > > >>of blind people saying that blindness was
> the
> > best thing that happened
> > > >>to them. Wasn't that a line at the
> end of
> > one of Robert's thought
> > > >>provokers?
> > > >>
> > > >>I was thinking more of sighted people
> with a
> > disorder called BIID
> > > >>where people want to be disabled: Usually
> > amputee's but I've heard
> > > >>some of them wanting to be deaf or blind.
> > > >>
> > > >>Also I know of someone who was born
> blind,
> > regained his sight and is
> > > >>now losing it again due to Glycoma and he
> says
> > he is glad to be blind
> > > >>as he says he was meant to be blind.
> > > >>
> > > >>As for me, I make deafblindness part of
> my
> > lifestyle. It's been a
> > > >>concious choice for me to fully embrace
> being
> > a deafblind person and
> > > >>move on. It's not easy to begin with,
> but
> > once one fully adapts it's
> > > >>no big deal. I believe that humans are a
> very
> > adaptible species that
> > > >>can manage perfectly well minus one or
> two
> > senses. It's not the
> > > >>tragedy that people make of it. It's
> no
> > worse or better then being
> > > >>sighted. Just differance and it's the
> > differances that are hard at
> > > >>first, not the blindness
> > > >>
> > > >>Helene
> > > >>
> > > >>On 25/03/2009, LoriStay at aol.com
> > <LoriStay at aol.com> wrote:
> > > >> > Not if they aren't there
> already.  
> > What does wanting have to do with
> > > >> > it?
> > > >> > Lori
> > > >> > In a message dated 3/24/09 8:15:48
> PM,
> > timber_wolf899 at yahoo.com writes:
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> does anyone want to be blind?
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> > **************
> > > >> > Feeling the pinch at the grocery
> store? 
> > Make dinner for $10 or
> > > >> > less.
> >
> (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001)
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