Family Kicked Out Of Golden Corral Restaurant Over Children's Skin Disorder

[jberryhill]

272. Well I'll tell you something from personal experience

My daughter is very good at getting around.

So good, in fact, that she often leaves her cane behind and doesn't take it with her.

The consequence of that fact is that people do not often immediately know she is blind.

Now, in Pennsylvania, if she walks out into a street and is hit by a car, the way things work out liability-wise is that if she didn't have her cane on her - it's a reflective red and white foldable cane - it is a hell of a lot harder to hold the driver responsible than if she does have her cane with her.

As a practical matter, we do tell her to take the cane when she goes out. It folds up and is not a big deal anyway.

Because she needs it to get around? No.

We have her do that, because it says to people around her "I'm blind, so please don't bump into me." Or, if she does bump into someone or something, it keeps other people from assuming she is just clumsy and beating her up.

Because if you are standing on a sidewalk, and someone comes barging right into you - and she moves damned quick - your first reaction is normally going to be "Hey asshole, watch the fuck where you are going." If that person has a candy-striped cane in their hand, your reaction is going to be quite different.

Yes, she has to acommodate the "disability" of sighted people who do not immediately perceive that she is blind.

But your disgusting habit of condemning others is, I understand, untreatable.

And, if I have time later on, I can tell you about getting through the TSA with her and her girlfriend with MS. Much longer story, but a little understanding goes a long way toward addressing conflicts instead of escalating them.