You know, I don't know what to make of this article.
Yes the reporter was an idiot there is no doubt about it and the article was
as badly written as any nineteenth century novel about the blind I have ever
seen but think about this. Not a single one of us on this list would have
ever heard of oneanother unless we belonged to ACB or NFB or went to school
or a guide dog center or a rehab center were it not for this truly marvelous
equipment.
You young people have no clue about what how us old goats got our education
and what we did not have.
I wake up every morning and thank my Heavenly Father that I can now download
a book into the Braille Note.
I can remember when the only thing we had to use as first graderswere Haul
Braillers and then one day Mr. Eugeen Stephens head of special Education for
our schools came in and presented Miss Mergentheimer with one Brand New
Perkins Brailler. Miss Mergentheimer treated that machine like gold. There
was a part of the classroom where we were not allowed to go as she said this
was the shelf for her "pretties." On that shelf was a spice wrack with
spices to develop sense of smell and various objects for conceptualization
and on the very end sat that perkins Braille Writer and if we got an A. on
that spelling test we got to do our next lesson on the Perkins.
My point is, yes 99% of the sighted world are idiots and have this archaic
idea that if they lost their sight they wouldn't be able to cope and some
wouldn't. So yes indeed these machines are most definitely miracles and the
more sophistocated they become the more miraculous they will continue to be.
Mary Ellen Earls
Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday.
