What can we DU now to help TTW and Yoshi ?

[mnhtnbb]

274. Sounds like a plan...

if you live in NYC, though, it must be easy for your son to get around without a driver's license, isn't it?
Maybe it's time to stop offering rides?

I have a son who is legally blind--lost his sight at age 9 when it turned out he inherited a juvenile,
genetic form of macular degeneration--and yet he's never let his vision impairment stop him
from going after what he wants. (His sight is 20/200 and he sees with his peripheral vision). We are helping him with living expenses while he's in grad school at Yale School of Drama, funded by a very nice financial aid package. I was struck by what he said, one time in an interview with a journalist after he was awarded a scholarship for his undergrad years at UNC-Chapel Hill:
"everybody has to deal with something". Hmm...so, I, too, give rides to this 25 year old son when he's
here visiting (he's been here all summer, but going back to New Haven next week) but I've always
encouraged him to figure out using public transportation. Somehow, he manages to get around--
and even did so living on his own for a year in Berlin when he was there on a Fulbright scholarship--but you
can imagine how I felt letting him go when I took him to the airport and he flew off by himself to Berlin!

Yet for all his accomplishments, I worry about him--now hoping he'll be able to find a job when he's
finished with grad school--because he can't really even wait tables due to his vision (he tried and got fired after
less than a week) and wherever he ends up living/working, there will have to be good public transportation.

Everybody has to deal with something...