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

[Mike Freeman]

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Mike Freeman
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On Nov 13, 2012, at 10:24, Jasmine Kotsay <jasmine.kotsay at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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