[Blindtlk] Why do we advocate?

[Cindy Handel]

Gary, I think you're right.  But, this is not limited to blind people. 
There are a lot of sighted people who don't go out of their way to meet and 
know their neighbors.

Since eye contact is very important to sighted people, and since some may be 
uncomfortable getting to know us, since eye contact may not be there, maybe 
it's up to us to extend ourselves and try a little harder to meet neighbors, 
if we want to know them.  Maybe, if a neighbor says hello, we could stop and 
say hi and ask their name.  I'm guilty of not doing that, but I really 
should.  From that, next time they say hello, we could say hello and use 
their name.  It might be a way of opening a line of communication between 
neighbors.

Cindy

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gary Wunder
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:43 PM
To: 'Blind Talk Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Why do we advocate?

It has been interestingly observed that we have our best friend in Australia
and connect with him using the internet but don't know the name of our next
door neighbor. I think this is something that goes way beyond blindness. We
spend more time inside our houses, less time on our porches, and we let our
children have far less time outside for fear something will happen to them.



-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Reese
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 2:37 PM
To: Blind Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Why do we advocate?

I was just thinking about how times have really changed from when I was
growing up.  I have been living in my house now for more than 5 years and I
don't even know who my neighbors are.  Once in a while they will say hello
but that's it.  I'm willing to bet part of it is since you can't make eye
contact with them, they are very uncomfortable interacting with blind
people.  How well do you know your neighbors and how did you get to know
them?

When I was a kid growing up however, I lived on a street where everyone knew

everyone and I was pretty known around the neighborhood.  I'm sure eye
contact was important then as it is now.  So why don't people know there
neighbors like they use to and why are sighted people still uncomfortable
having a conversation with a blind person?

Reese


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