Re: Mom's House Call (OT)


"Granby" <spaz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:6l8r4iFb79lgU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Oh boy, could I get in trouble over this post.

First, with proper training there is no reason to be a messy eater. Maybe if you were through school before these things were taught or, had a parent who couldn't teach them properly.

If you don't see well, or not at all, you have to be careful what you eat in public.

About wearing the glasses. Many blind fight this one. However I don't have a problem with it. Boils down to if someone had an open sore they would be asked to cover it. If none of you have seen what some diseases do to the eyes you may not understand this. As you get older you, at least in the last 40 years have learned that you succeed more if you put others around you at ease. You learn that you don't go out in public and try to eat any food that "runs" away from you! spaghetti, Jello lettuce salad etc, you usually end up wearing more than you eat..

Will leave it at that.


Sue's problem was not spilling food all over herself. Her problem was that she had great difficulty picking certain things up with a fork or spoon, so she would spend a great deal of time "chasing it around" on her plate. That seemed to be true of almost everything she ate.

I don't think the request that she wear dark glasses fits within the context of an open sore. She was born premature at a time when they did not know as much as we do now about what too much oxygen can do. So, her blindness was caused by excessive levels of oxygen shortly after birth. Her eyes do not look "normal," but they also do not look diseased.

MaryL


"MaryL" <stancole1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:48ef1d0a$0$5476$bbae4d71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

<bastXXXette@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:48eea793$0$33521$742ec2ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
outsider <not@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> bastXXXette@xxxxxxxxx wrote in news:48ee7a1f$0$33566

>> And Evelyn, I find your comments offensive.

> I find many of evg's comments offensive; it is nice to have someone > else
> notice it.

Well, unfortunately, many people share her belief that "ugly" people
should cover themselves so as not to cause trauma to the public. I know
from previous discussions about this that this applies to people with
wrinkles, sagging skin, and fat. Perhaps it also applies to people with
physical deformities or missing limbs, or scars? .

--
Joyce ^..^

(To email me, remove the X's from my user name.)

Oh, it definitely is true that the same attitude faces people with physical problems. I have a blind friend. During the years when she lived in this town, I took her grocery shopping and out to dinner once a week. She was not a "neat" eater because she could not see, and some people in restaurants would look at her with disgust, as if her eating habits made their "dining out experience" unpleasant. Servers would often turn to me and ask, "Does she want..." as if she were deaf as well as blind. Sue told me that she had sometimes been told that she should wear dark sunglasses to hide her eyes so other people would not see them. She found that offensive, and it was. As she pointed out, that would not have helped her at all because she was totally blind -- only the sighted who were looking at her could have derived any "benefit" from sunglasses. I suspect that some of those people actually thought they *were* trying to help her, in the sense that people would not react negatively to the way she looked. But, if so, think of the hidden cruelty behind those words.

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MaryL




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