[LMB] sharing knife discussion

[Kait Bessing]

I wrote:
>> I really like Aunt Nattie, although I could give Bujold pointers
>> about how blind people look and behave (having grown up among blind
>> people). However,
>> that's a minor detail.

Tzivia Adler wrote:
> really?  do tell.  minor details are fun!

Oh, it's all that shuffling and groping bit. Sighted people seem to think 
that blind people always do this, presumably because that's what THEY would 
do in the circumstances.

But Nattie's been blind for years, and she's moving around in her own home, 
where she knows every inch of the space. Why should she shuffle? My blind 
friends don't do that in their own homes.

And why a stick indoors? Unless, of course, her legs are acting up. I can't 
remember exactly if that's the case.

A stick for support is one thing. But a stick for feeling her way around - 
in her own, familiar home - that strikes me as quite unnecessary.

Again, none of my blind friends use their sticks in their own homes or their 
offices. They keep the stick in the hall, where you hang your coats and 
things. You pick it up as you leave the house - along with your coat and 
your bag.

Well, those were my minor details! :-)

>i find
> that a lot of books with explicit details >are dreadful, not because
> of hte smut but because of the boring >smut.  really, why bother?

Yes, excactly!!

> by the way - note change of subject >line.  we of the list try (most
> of the time) to change the subject as >the content of hte message
> changes.

Well, I do that myself. But being new on this list, I didn't know the 
customs and so didn't want to change anything before I felt more at home.

Kait