[nfbwatlk] Food for Thought

[Carl Jarvis]

Hi Rebekah,
Too bad I didn't return home in time to read your note and respond while 
your friend was with you.  As an old, weathered, long-in-the-tooth Rehab 
Teacher, I can talk for hours, giving one example after another to 
demonstrate that we blind folk have just about as good, and just about as 
bad senses as sighted folks.
Some people cannot accept us as being ordinary.  They believe the tragic 
loss of sight must be compensated by amazing increases in our remaining 
senses.
In part, they feel deep sorrow for us, and want this to be true so that they 
can feel better about our tragic loss.  And in part, it is their attempt to 
cover their own butts in case they ever become blind.
And finally, they  just can't get their heads around the idea that we blind 
people can function competently unless we do have some other amazing senses.
But there I go, reading their minds again.

Carl Jarvis