[nagdu] Animal Advocate Calls Blind Guide Dog Users Cruel &unfi

[Marion & Martin]

Ron,
    I guess we will just need to agree to disagree. As for being "approved" 
by a low vision specialist, I feel that most such specialists have very 
little understanding of blindness. For this reason, they tend to encourage 
blind people to use inadequate eyesight and all sorts of low vision devices, 
rather than non-visual techniques.

Fraternally,
Marion


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Davidson" <fuzzy_1 at cox.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Animal Advocate Calls Blind Guide Dog Users Cruel &unfi


>I  disagree with part of what you say Marion. When we do this type of 
>demonstration it is usually after these usually junior high age students 
>read such books about  people like Helen Keller and Tom Sullivan which they 
>see Blind people can and do and live successful lives. This is not a whoa 
>look at the poor blind person thing I have never lead a pity party and 
>never will. We use this as a tool. Kids are full of questions on how we do 
>things and this is a way to help them understand it. I have lived for 38 
>years of off and on blindness and I was told at the age of 12 that someday 
>I would loose all my vision and I never once thought death would be better. 
>The eye disease that I have I would go to bed at night not knowing whether 
>I would wake with sight or not so I know allot about waiting for the 
>inevitable. As you know vision loss affects each person different just like 
>grief people have their own way of handling it. This type of demonstration 
>we use is also approved by our low vision specialist.
>
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