Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!olivea!oliveb!bunker!hcap!hnews!130!10!Linda.Iverson From: Linda.Iverson@f10.n130.z1.fidonet.org (Linda Iverson) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Handwriting Message-ID: <15591@bunker.UUCP> Date: 13 Nov 90 17:53:53 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: Linda.Iverson@f10.n130.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:130/10 - D D Connection, Fort Worth TX Lines: 50 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 11684 [This is from the Blink Talk Conference] Hi, Donna! I recently had a discussion with someone about handwriting and how I handle it and different opinions about the matter. I ended up feeling real putdown and rotten. I, too, use a rubber stamp and I know at least one other person on this echo besides you and me, Donna, who uses a stamp. I love this echo, and from what I've see haven't read any messages from anyone I'd never want to meet if I had the chance, but sometimes here and blind people in general can come across as though their way of doing things is the only way. I feel I am an expert on my blindness and no one else's. Our backgrounds, lifestyles, interests, childhood, skills, beliefs, etc., etc., etc. determine how we handle anything--not just blindness issues. I think we should all try to learn from each other. I know how to sign my name but have chosen to use a rubber stamp. Donna, I agree that your teacher should have pushed the idea, but I don't think there's anything wrong with using a stamp as long as that is recognized as your legal signature. I believe it is much harder for some people to learn to write print if they've never seen it--not everyone, of course, and it certainly can be done. I can sign my name and still do on occasion; however, I find reading print with my Optacon much easier than writing it. For that matter I always found reading foreign languages and writing them easier than speaking them. In my opinion, blind people are like everyone--we all have certain talents and would have them in any case. Donna, what kind of rubber stamp do you have? I know someone who has a stamp with lifetime ink. It is a one piece device that opens up and the user just stamps what has to be stamped. I've not seen one like that, but would love one. I have two stamps--one is my name printed, and the other is script. I have an inkpad with my stamp, so I carry all of this in a little coin purse, but I'd sure like one so that I'd not have to use an inkpad. My friend has had this stamp for a long time and has never had to replace the ink. Donna, I wasn't meaning by sending you this message that I think you've ever implied your way is the only way. I was simply sending this message to you and just threw that in. I don't know if I ever told you how much I enjoyed our conversation the other day. That was quite a neat surprise! Have you resolved the problem with the Cooking recipes? I've just been downloading the messages, and brailling it and then copying the recipes I want. I think I'd rather be a point like you and Walter! Take care! Linda -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!130!10!Linda.Iverson Internet: Linda.Iverson@f10.n130.z1.fidonet.org