I don't want to start a big debate here, but I think saying the only 
thing we give up is driving is over simplified.  I was married to a 
wonderful person for ten years and lived in Los Vegasand we depended on 
each other for a lot of things.  She had site so ccould drive as well as 
read mail, tell me controls on radios, play video poker and slots, go 
grocery shopping, and on and on and on.  Sure you can learn to do a lot, 
but realistically I think it is a royal pain in the ass and always will 
be, particularly since I'm back in a small town and depend on my mom for 
reading mail and so forth.  Yep, I do a lot, and even do a lot most 
sighted folks don't think I can do, but lets be real, blindness 
sucks!!!!
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Fri, 24 May 2013, Howard Kaufman wrote:

> The common theme I am hearing is a version of what I keep preaching.
> The only thing you have to give up to blindness is driving.  Everything else
> is optional.  If you can go from
> "I can't do it because I can't see"!!!
> To:
> I can't do it because I don't yet know how to do it with out eyesight"!!!
> You have turned the corner.
>
> Now I technically know that their are other things I can't do besides
> driving, but the concept works.
>
> A major part of my attraction to ham radio, is that nobody needs to know I
> am a blind person, unless I tell them.  Besides, everybody is blind on the
> radio.
>
>
> H T Kaufman MSW LCSW
> Adaptive Technology Instructor
>
>