I hear you, Howard!

I find that even some of my sighted college students with no apparent
disabilities often take the "victimization" route for one reason or another,
and it drives me up a wall!  HI!  HI!

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Best 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: Morse code


> Well said, and much more politely than my answer.
> I get frustrated when people cling to victim hood and blame everything and
> everybody for their inability to accomplish a task.
> Their was a guy who called in on the WGN computer show, whining about
jfw's
> inability to use addaware.
> Well jfw does it fine, he got probably 5 referrals to the jfw lite web
page.
> What infuriated me was, that he blamed his software, rather than asking
how
> could the task be done with his software.
> If I can go from I can't do it to "I don't know how to do it yet." I am on
> the way to dealing with my situation like an equal adult.  Yes a self
> responsible member of our society.  That is how equality is taken.
> Privileges that are abused are lost, and the credibility for other
> reasonable accommodations is damaged.