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

[don nepple]

hi i 
 i do not have any proglams sight people i have a lot of sighted frends in my church so her in idaho in the nfbi i get along with both blind people and sighted people.thanks frum idaho.

> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:06:57 -0500
> From: michellem86 at gmail.com
> To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] How do You Find your Interactions with SightedPeople?
> 
> 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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