<karen claps loudly and cheers!>
On Wed, 13 Apr 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Oh wow! I can't see who you are because this list obscures the sender's email
for security reasons, but I love everything you just said. My whole focus
when I was doing my computer business thing was to work with everyone, not
just certain everyones. I probably had more customers who could see than I
had who did not have working eyeballs, but my point of sale for everyone was
to upgrade the OS on their computers to make it run faster and more securely.
Yes, I did at one time work with Sonar and with F123, and even worked a
little with the attempts to revive Vinux, but it actually didn't hurt too
much when both Sonar and Vinux pretty much went the way of the dodo. I guess
I could express my feeling as a slight disappointment, but not much more.
F123 was a little different, as I was a paid contractor working on it, so
that did hurt quite a bit more, I mean no one wants to stop making money, but
even that was manageable.
Now that I know that I am to make a major career move, I will be having to
put my face out there for the world to see. But the one thing I noticed is
that my instructor in the class I'm taking to get me started on this new
career path, when she learned that I am blind, kept this fact to herself when
I asked her specifically about a non-visual alternative to something in the
class, saying instead that she knew why I was asking the question and tried
to answer it to the best of her ability. I felt like this recognized my
humanity above all, and that is a very good thing. ANd having been selected
for this class and having worked with this instructor prior to it, having
purchased related educational materials and even having won a contest from
her based on my abilities, not on my non-working eyeballs - she had no idea
at that time that they don't work - I know that I am in the right place at
the right time dealing with the right person/people. I'm not "the blind," I'm
not treated as "the blind," and I'm not even selected for anything because of
my blindness. I am human, and my skillset and the fact that I know I want to
improve my skills and am passionate about the career path I'm taking are what
propell me to my destiny, and that just feels much better somehow. I tried to
express this to someone who is on this same career path who said that we
should support people just because they are blind, but he didn't seem to get
it. I simply couldn't make him understand that it's our skills and our
abilities, as well as the positive impact that we make on the people around
us and on the world that make us successful, not the blind beggar mentality
that says I need you to support the poor blink. These are people who I would
say exude negative energy, and I have decided that I only want my spirit to
be fed by positivity.
~ Kyle
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