[stylist] Wow.. Writing about low vision verses non-visual

Mon Mar 30 00:45:13 UTC 2009

Vivian: My name is Justin.  I would like to extend a warm south carolina
welcome.  You will be both entertained, and educated.  
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Vivian,
	A warm welcome from Northern California. I hope you find this list
helpful and informative. We're a fun group, opinionated, humorous, and full
of fascinating information.
Welcome once again,
Angela Fowler

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Greetings with Blessings
These are great stories...and just what we need I will start forwarding them
to others all I can say is WOW, and thanks so much..Robert do you  think one
day there will be story in stylist about me?..I really want to make a
difference please help me OK? ....I call soon.Enjoy to day!
Thanks in advance
Vivian Majors/CEO
Diamond Pieces Entertainment Group Inc

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--- On Sat, 3/28/09, Robert Newman <newmanrl at cox.net> wrote:

From: Robert Newman <newmanrl at cox.net>
Subject: [stylist] Writing about low vision verses non-visual
To: "'NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 12:07 AM

Jim, JC and Others

JC conversing with Jim about when to use vision and when to go non-visual,
made me look back over my inventory of what I've written and see if I had
something that spoke to this unique dilemma. I didn't have to look back very
far. Below I'll paste in TP 140 Magoo'd. But hey, have any of you written
something that speaks to this.this dilemma that so many people get stuck in.
I love short stories and short articles or essay. Do any of you have a poem
or other  alternative style of a piece that fits this? 

Here is an idea- if there is enough material, let us put it in a book. 

Isn't it a good feel to know that someone was changed for the better for
just having read your writing?

THOUGHT PROVOKER 140
Magoo'd

"Whoa, that"s a big honking screen for a laptop!"
"Yeah, I like to be able to sit back and be comfortable." Dempsey was
showing off his computer to a new friend. He was attending a summer program
for blind teens of high school age. Rapidly he reduced the enlargement of
the text he'd been studying. "I was checking out the details of the pics and
diagrams we need to use for our group project," he lied; he didn't think it
would be cool in this group to be the one using the biggest enlargement.
Squinting now, he forged ahead, getting only a part of what scrolled by.
Next to him, a tiny earphone voice running at triple speed told him his
neighbor was back to reading via her screen enlargement software's voice.
"Everyone finished? They want us back in the main hall in five minutes,"
said Kelly, the group's elected leader and the only one of them who was
totally blind.
Dempsey's ego hurt a little for not being chosen for lead. But deep down he
knew he probably would not be able to outdo some of these guys, no matter if
he could see better than them or not.
"Yo! Done and got my notes Brailled up," answered Mark, putting his slate
back in his laptop case.
That Braille thing was something Dempsey just didn't get. He had visited
with Mark and knew the two of them had about the same vision. Dempsey and
his parents had always opted for print, wanting him to fit into the
mainstream.
"Hey, let's settle on who is going to present which part of the report,"
Kelsey said. "I've got to write out the specifics of what I say."
"I'll handle the second section," Dempsey volunteered. He hadn't gotten much
further than that in his study of the material; he was a good student, but
these guys had gotten through the four sections of readings faster. And
while the rest was being organized, he quickly wrote out a few notes with a
heavy marker. He knew he'd better not even try to read from prepared notes;
he'd gotten teased at the school where he was the only blind student
("Smelling or reading it, Dempsey?").
Presentations completed, the group was given a one-hour break. Someone
suggested, "Let's go to Mickey D's!"
"I know the way," Kelly said and took the lead.
"Whoa?we going to go to a light?" asked Dempsey.
"That would be four blocks down," answered Kelly. "We don't have the time."
"We can handle this," Mark said, leaning forward, listening to the traffic
on the four-lane street.
Out of the four of them, Dempsey was the only one without a cane. He had a
monocular back in the dorm, but even with that, this type of street made him
nervous; at home he had a folding cane...somewhere. He never wanted the
stigma of a cane, didn't need one, because he always chose where and when he
would go places by himself.
"Go!"
Heart in his throat, Dempsey followed; he wouldn't be left behind. About the
middle of the street, "Ow, darn!" as he kicked into an unseen cement island
and fell.
"Better take my arm?hurry." Kelly said.
That evening was philosophy seminar. The topic was the effect of a blind
media character upon an audience. "I have a rather provoking thought," spoke
up one teen. "We all agree that when blindness is portrayed in the mass
media, it has an effect upon how blindness is viewed by society. My question
is, if that influence guides how we are treated and if you view that as a
process that has been worked upon you, can you come up with a single term
that captures the essence of which specific blind cult figure that's been
applied to you?"
Dempsey got it right away, but wasn't sure he was ready to share it. This
day had brought it home to him. these guys had blindness skills, confidence,
knew where in life they were going! They were competent blind people and he
was basically an inferior sighted person. "Yeah, I've been Magoo'd."

Robert Leslie Newman
Email- newmanrl at cox.net
THOUGHT PROVOKER Website-
Http://www.thoughtprovoker.info

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