Greetings!
Well I'll put my 2 cents in here.
Washing dishes, cooking, craft work just to name 3.
Cheers
At 15:53 20/06/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Here are some activities that come to mind that I can and do enjoy with
>no or minimal assistance from sighted folks: 1Fishing from the bank.
>Fortunately, my wife and I have a lakeside cabin. 2Attending musical
>concerts or comedy concerts 3Excercising on my home tredmill
>
>Bill in Ky and Tenn
>
>As a psychologist, I talk and listen to patients with no assistance at
>all.
>
>On Sat, 20
>Jun 1998, Peter Seymour wrote:
>
>> Before we ban peripheral topics:
>>
>> I know this is not necessarily computer related, but some of it
>> may be.
>>
>> I would like to compile a list of activities that are either not
>> sight-dependent, or only minimally so.
>>
>> The idea is this: I want to do a wider range of activities with a
>> wide range of people. I want to know of activities that we can do
>> that do not depend on sighted assistance, and are not designed
>> for the blind.
>>
>> Examples of the types of activities that I am describing are:
>> Attending a lecture, going to a concert, going to dinner or a
>> party. Bowling and sitting in an Indian sweat lodge are also
>> activities in which we can blend in with minimal sighted
>> assistance.
>> Many plays are good, but it depends. Movies can go either way,
>> but I have found, that if I call up a friend to go to a movie, he
>> assumes that I am asking for his help to narrate the visuals. If
>> that is the case, it is not an activity for my list.
>>
>> Please, email me with your list of activities that blind people
>> can do 90% independently, and with or without sighted assistance.
>> They should also be activities that sighted people would enjoy
>> doing with a blind person, because the activity is fun or
>> interesting in and of itself, and because it puts no demands on
>> them to accommodate us.
>>
>> The more that we can find inconspicuous ways of accommodating
>> ourselves, the more we can do and the more we will blend in.
>>
>> Also, please furnish me with the addresses of other list serves
>> for the blind, so that I can post this notice to it.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Peter Seymour
>>
>
>
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