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.
>