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

[Gary Wunder]

I respect your right not to be a member, of course, but what force presses
harder for the elimination of such terms and the integration of the blind
and the sighted than the NFB? To me this integration is central to
everything we do. I do not like the term sighty anymore than I think I want
to be called a blindy or a blink or a bat. I am a blind person, a person who
happens to be blind, a person who has blindness as one of his
characteristics, but it is certainly not the dominant one in my life.

Gary



-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Michelle
Medina
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 8:30 AM
To: Blind Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] How do You Find your Interactions with Sighted
People?

Ol' sighty. . . that's a new one. Very original to.

I hate to confess here, but that's one of the reasons I'm not a
card-carrying member of any organization to do with us blind folk, because
it's the 21st century and myths still abound from both sides, both sighted
and non-sighted folks about each other.

On 11/13/12, Carly Mihalakis <carlymih at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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