Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
lol As far as the bit about how a folding cane hides my blindness?
Uh, no.
That is an issue for some people - I have known someone who wanted a cane small enough to put in her purse, specifically so nobody would see it - but that is generally not the norm. I don't know too many blind people who want to hide; most of us can't anyway. Indeed, most of the time, a folding cane is convenient as hell, as I personally find the idea of riding in a car with a five-and-a-half-foot pole floating around...just a wee bit dangerous. What if we get in an accident and it fucking impales somebody? No...folding canes are just practical.
For the record, I have had many, many folding canes over the years. I've bent several, broken the tip clean off of one (totally my fault) and had one jumped on so hard that it broke irreparably. I've had the elastic give out on them as well. I don't know how durable the long canes are, but unless they're the sort where you buy one and it lasts you thirty years, I'd say there's no good argument regarding upkeep. Folding canes have more moving parts (namely the elastic), and there's a little more hassle if they jam/break/whatever, but it's not so much that it should make or break an argument.
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