RE: Could a smart backpack replace guide dogs? Researchers think so. - The Washington Post

Shirley Tracy Wed, 26 May 2021 06:44:43 -0700

Alison,

I applaud your post. I agree with you.

Shirley Tracy

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Subject: RE: Could a smart backpack replace guide dogs? Researchers think so. - The Washington Post

I truly don’t believe anyone should feel embarrassed or self-conscious about being blind.

My Creative Writing Group have often commented how rarely any of my pieces are sight-related. I’m not deliberately shying away from it, but neither is it my main focus. I am blind, but I am also tall, married, retired etc. etc., and I don’t keep writing about any of those factors, and for me at least, blindness is just one more thing that I am.

Alison

From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of alia robinson
Sent: 26 May 2021 00:32
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Subject: Re: Could a smart backpack replace guide dogs? Researchers think so. - The Washington Post

I don’t really think of being blind, ever. it’s just not something that means much to me or the people I’m close to. I don’t run from it. it’s just a nonissue. it doesn’t make me strong or who I am. it doesn’t anymore define me than sight defines my husband, and there are tons of blind people I’ve talked to who have been shielded from the sighted world, which is what I meant when I said that, but this is getting offtopic now I think. I say bring on the tech. if I can hold something that looks more like something mainstream I’m happy.

On May 25, 2021, at 7:23 PM, Simon A Fogarty <si...@blinky-net.com> wrote:

Um,

A sighted world?

I think that’s what we all grow up in,

I lost my sight at 22 so approx. 30 years ago,

I’ve used both cains and dogs,

I’m happy to try other options that might give me as good if not better independence than I already have with my cain currently.

But hey having a cain doesn’t change who or what I am,

And I’m not embarrassed by being blind or having to be seen with a cain,
It’s part of who I am and what makes me the stronger person I am,

People need to face up to their disabilities not try and run away from them.
Use it for the good it can give you in your society.

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