HI,
I agree. If a sighted person did the same things, it would be overlooked. I
agree, we got this far. I wish I could blindfold every sighted person who
acts like that.
Carolyn Kj4vt
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From: "Mike" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2015 5:27 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: blindness:
> I agree also, from work, getting help shopping, and things you need, we
> are often told to be thankful you get any help!
> When I was working, if I smashed a dye running the punchpress or most
> any other mistake I made, I would get,"can you handle that job", or
> people remember you breaking that dye.
> Also someone said, "I remember your dog taking a hamberg from someone"
> I could go on, but it get's frustrating sometimes.
> Remember me for me, not my blindness or things I have done wrong
> But on the positive side, we all got this far, why stop now.
> Mike
> KD2CDU
> On 1/9/2015 8:07 PM, Colin McDonald wrote:
>> 100 per cent agree on that one Alan!
>> Minimizing a disability or minimizing limitations is plain stupid and
>> unfortunately a major selling point for the biggest blindness
>> organization
>> in the US...I'm sure it's obvious which one.
>> Yes, lets just hide from it, pretend it doesn't exist and maybe it'll go
>> away, or maybe others will treat us like sighted people...serious BS.
>> Accepting ones disability, learning to work within the limitations and
>> becoming totally comfortable in your own skin as a blind person is far
>> more
>> productive and allows one to lead a happy and successful life.
>> Pretending it's no more than a neusance only prolongs acceptance and
>> obtaining your own healthy level of self security, self confidence and
>> self
>> asteem.
>> And to keep it relatively short, living with ones own limitations, and
>> accepting the way one is and will always be is not the same thing as
>> failure, or complaicents or giving up or not trying to push those
>> limitations or boundaries...that is always healthy more or less. A
>> Neusance
>> my foot lol.
>>
>> 73
>> Colin V A 6BKX
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alan R. Downing
>> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 5:04 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: scanners?
>>
>> Hey Butch, ain't being blind great? I have to laugh at those poor souls
>> that really believe that being blind is a mere nuisance. What hog wash!
>> On a scale where blindness is a mere nuisance is on one end, and a total
>> disaster on the other, blindness would be a lot closer to the disaster
>> end
>> than a mere nuisance.
>>
>> N7MIT
>>
>>
>> Alan R. Downing
>> Phoenix, AZ
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Butch Bussen
>> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 1:57 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: scanners?
>>
>> Has anyone had any luck using radio refference with scanner programming
>> software. I have a pro 433 with butel software and although it wasn't at
>> all speech friendly, couldn't edit any fields, I could go to radio
>> reference from within the program and down load to the scanner. I can no
>> longer do that, comes up with combo boxes as window-eyes calls them for
>> state and I can't get anything to work. I've tried n v d a as well with
>> no
>> success. I sware, we kep losing accessibility on this stuff.
>> 73
>> Butch
>> WA0VJR
>> Node 3148
>> Wallace, ks.
>>
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