Chris,
please accept my sincere apologies. the below message was not the
completed response i had intended on posting. after reading the below posting
i have unintentuly falsely targeted you personally. My intent was to poke fun
and note one of my own experiences. however i have now made an official as*
out of myself and would like to apologize to you and the list for the poor post.
My sincere apologies,
Pete
On Dec 2, 2009, at 10:20 PM, peter apgar wrote:
> you should be committed. it's your fault for assuming. learn to communicate
> and all of your listed issues will be resolved.
>
> Good luck, Go nfb :(
>
> On Dec 1, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote:
>
>> I am so sick of teaching random citizens about guide dogs, blindness, that I
>> don't need a wheelchair or assistance walking up a jet way, how I can dial a
>> telephone, how I can pee into a urinal without missing - you name it, that I
>> can almost explode.
>>
>> An anecdote: In Harvard Square, the rapid transit terminal has both bus and
>> subway connections. I was working in Watertown (one town to the northwest
>> of Cambridge, and I rode a bus to work. After getting down the stairs, I
>> started walking to the indoor bus stop. Some random do-gooder came upon me
>> and said, "You're going the wrong way."
>>
>> I made the assumption that he was someone who took the same bus as me and
>> that somehow I had become disoriented. No such luck - this bugger led me to
>> the subway where I proceeded to start hitting him with my cane as I had
>> missed my bus and would need to wait another half hour for the next one
>> because of his moronic assumption.
>>
>> Sometimes violence can feel real good.
>>
>> cdh
>>
>>
>> On Nov 30, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote:
>>
>>> I love conversations like that! It's a rare treat for me when
>>> someone comes up and says, basically, "You're different from me and
>>> that fascinates me, and I want to learn." Usually what I get is
>>> "You're different from me and that makes me afraid, so I'm going to
>>> control what I fear so that it can't hurt me."
>>>
>>> Growing up, I was taught that "It's your task to educate the sighted
>>> about the blind." In adult life, I realized that not only was this a
>>> pointless and thankless task, but it was a very heavy cross to bear,
>>> one that I had not asked for. Now, when someone is courageous enough
>>> to confront me as different and therefore stimulating, I feel
>>> privileged to talk to them; the rest of the people I don't bother
>>> trying to educate, because all the words in the world will not
>>> convince a scared or superstitious or xenophobic person to change
>>> their thinking patterns. Spent a half an hour with such an individual
>>> explaining how blind people use a computer or a dog, and they'll still
>>> shriek in panic and grab at you when stairs are present, or start
>>> talking to people around you about what you need, etc. Being cute and
>>> female never hurts, either. :)
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark BurningHawk Baxter
>>>
>>> Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969
>>> MSN: [email protected]
>>> My home page:
>>> http://MarkBurningHawk.net/
>>>
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