I am flattered that I made you think; that's the highest of compliments, thank you. It seems to me that the system is bass- ackwards. Instead of saying "what do you need?" and gently showing you how you can assist yourself, in other words assisting you to not need assistance, they say "this is what you need and this is the assistance you will need to get it." It's like pulling a cart by putting the horse behind it. Then, when the horse dies, the cart's still there on the road and you've no idea which end you should be at... Or something. Wow. Mixed metaphors, sorry. :)
When I wanted a music career in my 20's, and was doing club gigs a few times a week and making a name for myself in the Boston area, I asked Rehab in Mass. to help me go to Berkelee school of music. I had already applied and been accepted, but needed funds to attend. They said, literally, "We feel that a music career is too risky for you to get assistance; we'd rather you try medical transcription or something more proven..." etc. As a result, I did not go to Berkelee, did not have as much of a career as I could have. This is an example, admittedly a biased one, of how the assistance given to blind people is at the whim of the sighted and what they think is best; as long as there's a baby-sitter telling us what we need, how can we ever learn? At 40 I'm still behind in social skills, work skills, lots of basic stuff that I had to teach myself, or get reluctant sighted people to teach me, because I wasn't in control of the assistance I got... Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
