[blindlaw] Pimp My Cane
Aziza Cano
daydreamingncolor at gmail.com
Mon Mar 29 19:46:09 UTC 2010
Not necessarily. Sighted people do things that just make you know their
sighted, like point, wave, exclaim over the color of something, without
realizing it. It would take a lot of discipline for a sighted person who
doesn't know much about blindness to pull it off...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Clark" <goldflash9 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 7:05 AM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Pimp My Cane
> Actually it would be pretty easy to fool a blind person -- they can't see
> what the person is doing and how well or poorly the person is pulling it
> off. The more difficult thing is to fool a sighted person that is very
> accustomed to how a blind person operates, i.e. a sighted spouse of a
> blind person. I have heard of at least a couple of instances of people
> doing this.
> Personally I don't see the benefit, but clearly they are getting something
> out of it, in a defective sort of way.
>
> Sarah
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark BurningHawk" <stone_troll at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 10:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Pimp My Cane
>
>
>> Ummm, hello? There's a *LOT* more to "impersonating a blind person,"
>> than carrying a white cane. I defy anyone who is sighted to pull that
>> off well enough to fool a blind person.
>>
>> Mark BurningHawk
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>> Namaste!
>>
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