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

[Ray Foret Jr]

And there are even some who still call us "blinks"  OH please, that's just ridiculous.

Anyhow, I guess the concincis here is to just be yourself.


Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!

Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!

Skype name:
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On Nov 13, 2012, at 10:12 AM, "Gary Wunder" <gwunder at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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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