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Remarkable World Commentary Episode #110: One Size Does Not Fit All · Podcasts By Donna Jodhan

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  Podcast Commentator: Greetings, Donna J. Jordan, LLBAP and MBA invites you to listen to her
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  biweekly podcast, Remarkable World Commentary.
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  Here, Donna shares some of her innermost thoughts,
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  insights, perspectives, and more with her listeners.
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  Donna focuses on topics that directly affect the future of kids,
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  especially kids with disabilities.
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  Donna is a blind advocate, author, sight loss coach,
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  dinner mystery producer, writer, entrepreneur,
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  law graduate, and podcast commentator.
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  She has decades of lived experiences, knowledge,
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  skills, and expertise in access, technology and information.
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  As someone who has been internationally recognized for her work and roles.
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  She just wants to make things better than possible.
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  Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA: Greetings, everybody. And I'm Donna J.
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  Jordan, your host for the Remarkable World Commentary.
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  And this is my solo podcast for September, my first solo podcast for September.
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  Hope everybody is doing good.
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  So I want to thank everybody for all those who have taken the time to write to me.
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  Those who have taken the time to give me their feedback and tell me what they're
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  thinking. Thank you everybody.
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  So for this month, month of September, my first solo podcast,
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  I want to talk about this topic.
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  All right. One size does not fit all.
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  And I'm praying and hoping that the rest of the world is listening somehow,
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  and that this statement will help others to realize that no one size does not,
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  does not fit all. Right.
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  And yes, it does not fit all.
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  We're all not the same.
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  We're all very unique people in our own way.
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  We're each very unique people in our in our own way.
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  Okay. And why do I say this?
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  One size does not fit all.
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  You cannot use a template to, you know, match or to meet every single
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  situation in a landscape where there are too many different types of situations,
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  there are too many different types of circumstances.
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  When I say one size does not fit all, I mean that in the case of a person with a
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  disability, it is simply not possible to say one size will fit all.
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  Every single person with a disability has a unique requirement and a unique set of
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  needs. Okay. This is a definite, definite mistake that so many of us
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  make, including me at times, but I don't think it applies.
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  I don't think it is appropriate.
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  I don't think it. It's a lack of respect really in many,
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  many ways. Saying one size fits all, one size does not fit all.
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  Okay. It doesn't matter if you are a phone rep or agent or a
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  teacher, a god, a government department, or any other type of entity.
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  One size does not fit all.
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  Too many people. People fall into the trap of thinking that because one is blind or vision
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  impaired, there's only one set of requirements to be done.
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  And they think that because a person is blind or vision impaired,
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  that person has no vision.
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  And that's a very, very, very false statement.
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  The word or the term blind or vision impaired.
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  Sight impaired. A person with sight loss applies to different persons with different
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  types of or different levels of vision loss.
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  So if you say a person who is blind or vision impaired,
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  that person could be someone with functional vision.
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  That is, they can get around on their own, but they need glasses to help them see things
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  at distances or read things close up.
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  Then you have the person with low vision again,
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  can probably see a screen, can probably read a screen,
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  but can only do it reading with special devices and they do it reading very slowly.
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  Then you have the person who has minimal vision,
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  like myself, probably can see light and dark and shadows.
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  And then you have the person with no vision, can't see anything.
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  And I may not even be touching on all of the levels of vision loss,
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  but what I'm trying to say is that when one is told that a person is blind or vision
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  impaired, or a person with sight loss, it does not mean that that person is totally
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  blind. Okay. All right.
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  The there are different levels of vision loss that fall under the category of blind or
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  vision impaired, and it is the same for other types of disabilities.
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  Persons with hearing loss.
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  There are different levels of hearing loss.
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  Loss amongst persons with hearing loss.
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  Okay. I hope I'm making sense or saying it clearly enough.
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  Again, hearing loss applies to a person, applies to different levels of
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  hearing loss, not just one level.
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  So a person may be categorized as a person with hearing loss,
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  but how much hearing loss does this person have?
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  Again, what I'm trying to emphasize here is that one size does not fit all,
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  okay? Each person with a disability is a separate case to be considered.
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  I don't like using the word case, but each person with a disability has a
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  unique need. All right.
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  My story of the month is one that was sent in to us by someone who has used my mental
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  stretch technique to help them out.
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  My stretch technique emphasizes using different senses like sense of smell,
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  sense of hearing, sense of touch, sense of feeling,
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  sense of sight. And for this month, I have someone who has sent in their
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  experience of using my mental stretch to help them as an on
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  line dating victim. This person or this listener inadvertently or
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  unwittingly became a victim of online dating.
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  I guess they went into it with their eyes half closed,
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  or maybe their eyes shut, so to speak, became a victim of online dating
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  because the person who was encouraging them or inviting them to date,
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  did not provide them with the true details, and they ended up almost having to pay a lot
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  of money to this. This almost having to pay quite a bit of money to
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  the person who was inviting them.
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  I can't seem to get the word right now.
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  Perpetrator. That's it.
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  The perpetrator almost, almost got this poor old victim to pay them a
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  bunch of money because they gave them a stress SOS gave them a story that was not
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  true, but the victim had the, you know, was able to deal with it after
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  having sat down, Used our mental techniques and our mental stretch.
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  And, you know, they got their act together, gathered their resources and their thoughts,
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  spoke to some trusted friends, and realized just in the nick of time that
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  the perpetrator was only a perpetrator and no one that had any good intention of dating in
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  a meaningful, committed and open manner.
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  That's my story for this month.
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  Someone who was a victim of online dating and someone who used our mental stretch,
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  which is built on the use of using different senses to help them get out of it.
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  So you use a sense of smell.
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  Sense of touch. Sense of hearing.
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  Sense of feeling. Sense of taste.
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  Sense of sight. Your five senses.
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  This is it for me. For this month.
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  For my first remarkable world commentary solo podcast,
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  I'm Donna J. Jordan. Please write to me at Donna jordan@gmail.com
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  and let me know how you're doing.
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  Okay? Write to me at Donna Jordan,
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  donnaodhan@gmail.com. Take care now and see
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  you again real soon.
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  Podcast Commentator: Donna wants to hear from you and invites you to write to her at donna@gmail.com.
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  Until next time.