It is me who thinks I look like a 4 year old.
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From: "Lisa Belville" <[email protected]
To: <[email protected]
Date sent: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:33:01 -0600
Subject: Re: [CnD] cutting food
Jessica, who is telling you touching your food makes you look
like a four
year old? Because if it's your parents, they need to learn the
difference
between sloppy eating habits and well used alternative, nonvisual
techniques.
IMO, there's a huge difference between discretely touching a
piece of meet
versus running your hands all over the plate to locate the meet
and pushing
it into other food or right off the plate in the process.
One is a quick nonvisual way to locate the meat while the other
is more of a
sloppy action that would cause attention to you if you pushed off
the food.
Here again, the advice you're getting is from blind people in all
walks of
life in all stages of blindness and in all levels of proficiency.
The
common thread here is that you will need, at least initially, to
touch your
food. If you're too embarrassed to do it in public, then do it
in the
privacy of your kitchen when no one is around.
Lisa Belville
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jessica Brown" <[email protected]
To: <[email protected]
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [CnD] cutting food
It is not just what works for me. It is also about not looking
like a
4 year old in public. I understand that exceptions need to be
made for
blind people but touching your food is taking it too far!
On 1/23/12, Tom Dickhoner <[email protected]> wrote:
Again, as far as the fingers are concerned, I can't remember
anyone
frowning
on me using them except for teachers of the blind who made a big
deal out
of
doing that. I believe that good eddiquette is important. I don't
believe
in
picking up food from the plate and putting it in my mouth unless
it is
fried
chicken, a hamburger, french fries and the like. As long as you
use the
fork
or spoon and use the fingers as a guide, I see nothing wrong
with that.
We're blind, others in the restaurant or meeting are eating and
watching
what they are eating or talking to others. The only gawking
would be if
one's head is in the plate, picking up food that should be eaten
with a
fork
or just bad manners. Other than that whatever else you do is
fine.
Jessica, I didn't know you are only 16. In time you will mature,
and you
will learn to do what works best for you.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sisi Ben-Simon <[email protected]
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 2:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CnD] cutting food
I use bread sometimes but I try not to use fingers when I'm not
alone,
especially in a restaurant. I prefer to cut a piece and eat it
and then
cut
another one, not the whole stake or pancake at once. This way it
really
doesn't matter where I started and where I should be cutting.
When I'm in
a
restaurant or a hotel eating an omlet or some other fluffy egg I
just put
it
on a piece of toast so I don't have to struggle with food
sliding down
the
plate or on the table. Jesica you're only 16 so you have a lot
of time to
learn and find out whatever works for you.
Take care
Sisi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Dickhoner" <[email protected]
To: <[email protected]
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: [CnD] cutting food
AA pusher is a piece of bread or a eating utensel such as a
knofe that
allows you to be able to get the food from the late to the fork.
You
hold
the bread to the food, you find it, and you guide the bread to
the fork.
It is supposed to look dignified, and it is suppose to avoid
using
fingers. I have no problem with fingers. They work better than a
knife
or
a piece of bread
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