[Blindtlk] [Bulk] Re: dating sighted people Vs. Blind people?

[Bryan Schulz]

take that one straight to the top

Bryan Schulz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Foret Jr" <rforetjr at att.net>
To: "Jeanette Fortin" <jeanette at fortin-home.com>; "Blind Talk Mailing List" 
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Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] [Bulk] Re: dating sighted people Vs. Blind people?


> Ditto bit time Jeanette,  To speak frankly, I sometimes wonder just how 
> truly independant some blind people who go around all but broadcasting 
> their independance all over the place really are.  that, however, is 
> another subject and might make an interesting thread.
>
>
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> On May 26, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Jeanette Fortin wrote:
>
>> 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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