Well said Ms. Parsons.
> ----- Original Message ----- >From: Ann Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Braillenote List <[email protected] >Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 08:33:08 -0400 >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] braillenote pk >Hi all, >Terri Pannett writes: >> I think I would want to read with the display higher than my belly button. >> I'm also concerned about what it looks like to sighted people, especially if >> I'm dressed up. >Terry, if you're concerned about how it looks to sighted people, then >I suggest you go back into your bedroom and go to bed for the rest of >your life. If you need to use a BN while you are standing up and >while you're "dressed up", then you will just do it, and to Hell with >the prissy, self-centered idiots who are "concerned that it doesn't >look right". It's your pencil and paper, b'God, and you have every >right in the world to use it when and where you will!! If you have a >tool that you need to use in order to accomplish a task, then you use >it. Terry, you're blind. Nothing is going to change that unless God >does. In the meantime, you live your life the best way you can. >People who refuse to use tools that will enhance their lives because >it looks bad to the sighted are playing into their game. They don't >want you to "look funny". It makes them uncomfortable! So what! >People need to be made uncomfortable every once in a while. It's good >for their psyches. >Sorry for the rant, but this "I'm worried about how it looks to the >sighted", gumbus makes me seethe! >-- > Ann K. Parsons >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp >"All that is gold does not glitter. >Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
