[Blindtlk] How do You Find your Interactions with SightedPeople?

[Michelle Medina]

I'm actually the opposite. Now, let me say, I don't have a life
outside of my home anyway,, for the most part, because of where I
live. Super rural, NO transport unless Dad's providing it.
Still, out of all the friends I did have, and I grew up in a
completely sighted world, all I ever saw on a regular basis was
sighted people *while I was born without eyes*, I only have one friend
whom I see and keep in contact from those days and interestingly
enough, she does have issues with her sight. She can drive during the
day but not at night, but her sight flucuates so sometimes it works
for her and other times it doesn't.

On 11/12/12, Mark Tardif <markspark at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> When I worked at Braille International, it was interesting because we had a
>
> number of blind proofreaders in our department.  However, we certainly
> didn't interact much with sighted people from other departments outside the
>
> work place.  I can say that I had a couple of sighted friends who I did go
> out with either after work or completely away from work, and I know that
> some of us tried to organize Friday afternoon trips to restaurants to
> celebrate happy hour and grab a bite, but it never really got off the
> ground.  And now, I am not hearing at all from most of the people in my
> department.  Yes, it's frustrating, but I'm not sure what the solution is.
> I think there are a lot of people who simply like to separate their work
> life from their social life.
>
> Mark Tardif
> Nuclear arms will not hold you.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cindy Handel
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 8:34 PM
> To: Blind Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] How do You Find your Interactions with
> SightedPeople?
>
> I've found the same thing.  I know a lot of people and some I call friends.
> But, there are very few who are truly close.  It seems people want to be
> helpful, to a certain extent.  They say I should call if I need them to
> take
> me someplace or do something.  But, I don't like to do that very often.  It
> wears out a friendship very quickly.  I have invited people to my home or
> out to eat with me.  But, the invitation is not reciprocated.  I don't
> really know why, but it's very frustrating.
>
> Cindy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wogg le4
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 6:54 PM
> To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Blindtlk] How do You Find your Interactions with Sighted People?
>
> Hi all
>
> I realize it's probably a strange one but how do you find your
> relationships with sighted people?
>
> I often find that, while I meet plenty of people through work and so
> on and get to know them quickly, I make very few real friends, more
> aquaintances.
>
> I was wondering why this is - perhaps it's the nature of my work -
> perhaps my personality and I wondered what the experiences of others
> were?
>
> W
>
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