Hi, besides the places you mentioned, it is difficult to move without escort
in small towns and some villages where stray animals like cows and bulls,
stray dogs etc. challenge the ability of a totally sightless to move with
just a white cane and no escort. It's a reality and i have experienced it.
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From: "YADAV, D. N" <yada...@iocl.co.in>
To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [AI] Tips to manage without escort?
Mobility with 'fixed escort' or without one with your cane/no cane is like
moving in a familiar world of your own & another unfamiliar to you. White
cane can only be a safety tool to prevent your near fall but not a guide
as u have to ask directions from others despite your cane.
Recently I had been to a training programme from my office in different
location. There everybody (as is vogue today) held his plate in one hand,
put things of 5-6 types by his other & then took to eating on standing
tables during lunch. I had to fumble my way to the queue starting with
the plate point, often getting somebody to fill up with edibles & helping
me to the standing table. Where I could answer & raise questions with
confidence during our faculty lectures, I felt my confidence was badly
shaken in lunch place only depending on others to feed me with their help.
Even the lunch place was hundreds of metres away from training ground
where reaching could be more than mere fumbling for the place. In such
scenario, as often it is with a blind person alone, I always think a fixed
escort if you could have it, would be the best option. Your confidence
level is very high, you feel at par with your colleagues & have your own
world to enjoy without any dependence on new persons for your pleasure of
choice. It could be really very harassing asking for help everyone for
your needs & feeling bad when society fails to help you in time.
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