Saturday, July 7, 2007

Blind Children

What is it with people and blind children? We went out to eat lunch today and the place we went to had a new waitress that wasn't familiar with my son Cameron. What happened is pretty standard and ordinarily I am not bothered by it but today it just bugged the hell out of me. The waitress was making faces and waving at Cam and got miffed that he wasn't paying attention to her. When I noticed and said he couldn't see her and that she would have to say something for him to notice her she jumped back and started apologizing and making a big scene. She went on and on about how sorry she was for him and how did we manage. What bothers me is this we don't treat Cam any different then any other kids He was born blind and right now he doesn't know any different. Were not trying to hide the fact that he is blind the truth is we are very matter-of-fact about. We just don't want other people treating him like it's something horrible that he can't see. He is a very active three year old being blind hasn't stopped him from doing anything he decides he wants to.

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