[Oabs] an encouraging experience

[Kaiti Shelton]

That's awesome! And please do work on it, it sounds like the division could be good for him. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Oct 2, 2014, at 9:12 AM, Aleeha Dudley via Oabs <oabs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hey All,
>     I just thought I would share my wonderful experience with you
> guys this morning.
> I was at Applebees with my mother last night, celebrating my birthday.
> She leaned over and told me that she thought she saw a blind teen
> walking into the restaurant with his mother. I got really excited.
> There aren´t a lot of blind ppeople around here and I really wanted to
> network with this guy. I asked mom where he was sitting, and she said
> that he and his mother had sat down at the table across the aisle from
> us. As we ate, I did some inadvertent eavesdropping and noticed that
> this teen was indeed blind. I could hear VoiceOver speaking on his
> phone. I smiled and stood. Walking over to the table, I said: Hey, I
> hear a talking iPhone. He apologized, but I said that it was perfectly
> OK, that I was blind and wanted to introduce myself to him. We shook
> hands, and his mother invited me to sit down at the table, which I
> did. We talked for at least 45 minutes about blindness, living with
> it, and how I am currently doing as a student at Miami. His mother
> seemed amazed that there are blind people here in Butler County, and I
> proceeded to tell her that there is a group of 5 of us here in Oxford.
> Of course, I told him about our student division and his mother seemed
> very interested. We exchanged contact information and I hope that I
> will hear from him. Just thought I would share this with you all. They
> do seem a bit skeptical about the NFB, but I am going to work on that.
> I left names out on purpose here.
> Aleeha
> 
> -- 
> Aleeha Dudley and Seeing Eye Yellow Labrador Dallas
> Vice President, Ohio Association of Blind Students
> Email: blindcowgirl1993 at gmail.com
> Follow me on Twitter at @blindcowgirl199
> 
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> - Arabian Proverb
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