[Blindtlk] How do You Find your Interactions withSighted People?

[Jasmine Kotsay]

Hi,
	"Blinks?" I've never heard of that, but it seems pretty 
strange.  LOL!

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Ray Foret Jr <rforetjr at att.net
To: gwunder at earthlink.net,Blind Talk Mailing List 
<blindtlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:39:10 -0600
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] How do You Find your Interactions 
withSighted	People?

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:
barefootedray

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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