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From: Stew.Bowden@f6.n377.z1.fidonet.org (Stew Bowden)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: guide dogs
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Date: 20 Sep 90 03:07:31 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Hello again Willie: intended to reply some time back regarding your
discussions about guide dogs. Good luck on getting your second dog in
October. I often wonder if there are any differences in
discrimination between blind people who use guide dogs, and those who
do not. The 80% unemployed, underemployed, or wasting away as
volunteers causes me to doubt it. No matter the form of
discrimination, its rough, and what gets me the most is whenever you
apply for another job, you have to prove that nonsense about
blindness all over again. What is still worse, if you are unfortunate
enough to have passed 50, then you become less marketable, like
sighted people, and that's the pitts. Anyway, good luck Willie

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