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From: Donna.Siren@p19.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Donna Siren)
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Subject: Blink penmanship
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Date: 25 Jun 91 13:38:24 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 BH> to write the hyphenated part of my name after I was married.  I did not
 BH> learn to write Beth Hatch until I was in high school, I think I should have
 BH> learned this skill, as well as writing the whole alphebet much before that.

I know where you're coming from.  The one person who should've
taught me was the teacher who worked with the blind students in the
public school that I went to when I was in seventh and eighth
grades.  Never once did she ask me if I knew how to sign my name.
The people who tried to teach me years later didn't really know how
to teach that sort of thing.  One friend took a piece of string and
glued it to a piece of cardboard in the shape of my signature, but
it was terribly fancy and it was too hard for me to follow.  I
tried to write my name using the shape of the optacon letters, but
then I was told that I needed to write it in script, so I gave up.
Finally, someone did sit down with me and we worked at it and I was
finally able to write my name, not very neatly, a bunch of times.
The most legible name was taken and a signature stamp was made and
I now use that but I wouldn't have had to go through that hell if
I'd been taught when I was still in school by a teacher who had
plenty of time to work with me and not by a bunch of people who
only had maybe a half an hour.
	       Donna

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