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This is one of the best articles i have read in haayal. My daughter is hearing impaired and speaking with professionals i realized how difficult it is for anyone with any impairment to get ahead at work. Even in the U.S. despite existing laws against discrimination, profundly deaf persons cannot get decent jobs unless they have parents who are very supportive and have money to get the best education and devices. Israel is no better than third world countries when it comes to inlcusion of handicapped. A good example would be the sidewalks in Israel: uneven, hard to manuever and full of obstacles and good luck to any person who uses a wheelchair and needs to decent to cross the street.
To the person who was not sure about books on tape: Amazon has a very large variety of books on tape. In fact in the U.S. and Canada any store that sells books including some of the large supermarket chains offers books on tape.
Amit may I ask a personal question about your thoughts on the implant for deaf persons? Would appreciate your comments on the subject.

I have come a little closer to understanding something of the life of a blind person But there are a few places where you make reference to driving and that you drive a bus. I do not understand that. Everything else I understand and I have not problem understanding. I think though, that if you set out to explain something, I understood that you are a very unique person who manages extremely well with youother senses,It also explains how "stumim" Israelis are. It also explains by the way that Israelis treat you as more Normal by asking you all these "unsensative" questions. Think about it, the dialogues you are describing are human, they are inquisitive even if "childish" but THEY WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE?I do:How do you drive??
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I do think you take it wrong, Israelis are like raw material. At least they ae not "ADISHIM' WHICH WOULD BE MUCH WORSE.
I hope you will write to me. it is particularly of interest to me. Just a side not: We had a discussion at home the other day and my son was asked what he would write at school if he was asked to write about the affects of a multiplicity of aesthtic experience on the mind and soal, and he said he would would write about the experience of a blind person's appreciation of art. I thought it was so sensitive. I would like to have a discussion with the writer about this subject which would be much more in depth then this particular article.
PLEASE SEND MY RESPONSE TO THE WRITER, AND ASK IF HE WOULD TAKE THE TIME TO SEND A PERSONAL REPLY, PLEASE.
MALI WHITTEN

1st of all, Congrats, Gidi, on the superb article. Who helped with the spelling? (kidding)0
As a friend of Gidi's, who's been visited by him 3 times here in Budapest, I'd like to emphasize the main point he was trying to get across: intolerance, or just plain ignorance, stems from prejudice, from people not trying to get to know each other (and I'm not only referring to blind, or handicapped, persons).0
This is also why, when a business is opened, the investors seldom think of handicapped persons when picturing their potential customers, and hence - do not install any aids for them.0
As an example, almost every time Gidi and I go out to a restaurant/pub/cafe, whether in Israel or abroad, he likes to taunt the waiter/waitress by grabbing the menu and exclaiming, "This menu is empty! There's nothing on it!". Only once the joke didn't work, because the waitress handed him a Braille menu...0
Sorry for the looong reply (but it IS 4:50 am...)0

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