[Blindtlk] dating sighted people Vs. Blind people?

[Jeanette Fortin]

I've been reading these posts and will say that having been married to a 
sighted person and then to a blind person, the issues we had had nothing to 
do with my being blind.  people are people, i think my blindness is no 
different than the fact that i hav blonde hair and green eyes, most of the 
dating i have done before i was married the second time and now that i am 
single has been what i would consider pretty typical of anyone dating.  i 
think the older we get the harder it is to find decent folks to date, just 
my experience as well as several  of my women friends my age, blindness is 
not a huge issue other than one of my friends says a guy she met told a 
friend of hers thathe couldn't imagine having to  date a blind woman when 
there are so many sighted women in their 50's to pick from, hum, 
interesting, probably not the kind of guy she'd like to date anyway.
 at any rate, i don't make a big deal out of being blind, just who i am, 
most folks except me for who i am and don't really find my blindness to be a 
big deal.  i think sometimes, just my experience, that blind folks make a 
bigger deal out of being blind than others do, some folks carry on about how 
independant they are to the degree that it turns folks off, we are just 
folks who can't see, nothing more.  i know folks wioll disagree with me, but 
i think living out our independance is much more effective than announcing 
it all over the place. jeanette
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julie J" <julielj at neb.rr.com>
To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] dating sighted people Vs. Blind people?


>I mostly agree with what has been said already. The only thing that I feel 
>differently about is the idea that just because you date a blind person 
>that you won't have any differences of opinion concerning what it means to 
>be blind.  I think attitudes about blindness among blind people run the 
>gambit pretty much on the same scale as among sighted folks.
>
> JMO
> Julie
>
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