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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 438051" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Skeeter</p><p></p><p>I'm gonna sound dumb. What is Clovernook? Sounds familiar but nothing is coming up in my brain with the name. I'll try them and see if they have suggestions. </p><p></p><p>LMAO Star. I wonder if we could make our fortunes on such reflective vests. lol </p><p></p><p>Thing is.........with his autism, I don't know how much he's misreading their social cues.......I don't know how he's responding to them.....so I'm not sure of the social interface going on. I'm never there when it happens. And since it's going on with various officers.....I'm pretty sure not all of them are being jerks. This is why I've really not done anything about it. Last night it just really irked me and rubbed me the wrong way. </p><p></p><p>Am I stupid? I thought everyone knew what a person carrying a white cane means. I mean at 5 yrs old I knew what it meant. Everyone in the town I grew up in knew what it meant. But then I think back....and Mom had mother henned a teen blind girl when I was little. She was the granddaughter of one of her patients at the nursing home who would come home from blind school to spend the summers with her grandpa there. We enjoyed her company for several years until she grew up and stopped spending summers with her grandpa. And my Mom dated a legally blind man for about a year in my teens. So maybe everyone doesn't know what it means........I'm just assuming they do? But I do remember being taught in driver's ed about white canes.....and the teacher being adamant about it.</p><p></p><p>It's sad when a blind person........who is being honked at by a driver peeved off because he just nearly hit the boy, has to shout that he's BLIND at the driver while waving his cane at them. But, at least that has improved. People are catching on. White cane = blind man steer clear. ugh</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 438051, member: 84"] Skeeter I'm gonna sound dumb. What is Clovernook? Sounds familiar but nothing is coming up in my brain with the name. I'll try them and see if they have suggestions. LMAO Star. I wonder if we could make our fortunes on such reflective vests. lol Thing is.........with his autism, I don't know how much he's misreading their social cues.......I don't know how he's responding to them.....so I'm not sure of the social interface going on. I'm never there when it happens. And since it's going on with various officers.....I'm pretty sure not all of them are being jerks. This is why I've really not done anything about it. Last night it just really irked me and rubbed me the wrong way. Am I stupid? I thought everyone knew what a person carrying a white cane means. I mean at 5 yrs old I knew what it meant. Everyone in the town I grew up in knew what it meant. But then I think back....and Mom had mother henned a teen blind girl when I was little. She was the granddaughter of one of her patients at the nursing home who would come home from blind school to spend the summers with her grandpa there. We enjoyed her company for several years until she grew up and stopped spending summers with her grandpa. And my Mom dated a legally blind man for about a year in my teens. So maybe everyone doesn't know what it means........I'm just assuming they do? But I do remember being taught in driver's ed about white canes.....and the teacher being adamant about it. It's sad when a blind person........who is being honked at by a driver peeved off because he just nearly hit the boy, has to shout that he's BLIND at the driver while waving his cane at them. But, at least that has improved. People are catching on. White cane = blind man steer clear. ugh [/QUOTE]
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