Good one Ann. When I got my first cane I did have a hard time accepting it, but I was also a teenager. Now I am an adult, an NFB Member and I am proud of my BT. I am willing to show it to my friends when ever I get a chance. I bring it to my staff meetings and to my NFB meetings. Terry Powers
-----Original Message----- From: Ann Parsons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 8:33 AM To: Braillenote List 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
