[Blindtlk] How do You Find your Interactions with Sighted People?

[cheryl echevarria]

I have found that if you are confident whether blind or not, if you act normal they will treat your normal.  If the person is still in the olden days, that is there fault.
I get mostly you can't be blind you are looking me straight in the eye. Well, I say when you talk to someone don't you look them straight in the eye.
That is my biggest issues, or when I am walking to the far right of the area where I am walking, people for whatever reason, plaster themselves to the wall, so when I walk past them, I am still bumping into them, I don't get that one. Then they still yell didn't you see me, I said no but I felt you after I bumped into you, why are you standing there.
Or I get the people even though I use the cane or guide dog, insist on walking into me.  I mean normally guide dogs walk around people or move further to the left to pass them, but some just think we are faking it.
Or since I do have some light and I can see shapes, they say to me, oh you are not blind, you can see things. I explain, that not all blind people are totally black no sight at all, and second depending on the conversation, you can't see what I see, you cannot judge.
But most of the time, people treat me normally and the person that is not a card carrying of either group, if you are on both sides of the fence on things, and never been to a meeting or such, then how do you know it isn't for you. I mean you are on this list and possibly the ACB as well, which you are all welcome to do. I don't agree with everything that NFB does. I mean really I voted purple in the past elections red and blues.
But you should know the issues and if you are agree or disagree with them.

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> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:02:30 -0800
> To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> From: carlymih at comcast.net
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] How do You Find your Interactions with Sighted People?
> 
> Good morning, W.
> 
>          Yeah. Ol' Sighty tends to avoid me like the plague although 
> acquaintances, there are many. It's okay though. What are ya gonna 
> do, yu want peple to act natural, unincumbered by anything that seems 
> to incumber these sighted people.PM 11/12/2012, you wrote:
> >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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