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

[Gary Wunder]

Hello. I do not know you or your work, but I do not find this divide with
sighted people. I think that my blindness is important when it comes to
working on social issues where I need the help of others to get where I want
to go, but I don't think blindness figures into my everyday relationships in
a way that your note suggests. To people I get to know well, I don't think
my blindness matters very much. I don't think it gets in the way of knowing
them either. I grew up in a sighted family, went to a school with sighted
people, and went to work at the University of Missouri hospitals and
clinics.

Right now we are finishing up work on the December issue of the Braille
Monitor. In it Dr. Newel Perry talks about some of his blind boys being
sensitive about their blindness, and when he talked with them about going to
college, some of them would agree to go but would want him to pair them up
with other blind students. He did not think this wise, but I'll let you read
his story in the pages of the Monitor.

I think that how we feel about ourselves determines, at least to some
degree, what we transmit to others. There are always folks who will think
and act bizarrely no matter how we feel about our capabilities, but most
folks take their cue from us, and if we're comfortable about being blind, I
think we soon put them on that path as well.

I have no idea whether this is what you are looking for or not. I trust you
will get other responses from this list as well.

Warmly,

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of wogg le4
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 5:55 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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