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

[Mark Tardif]

Yes, that term, fortunately, is almost never heard now, but back in the 
seventies when I was in high school, I heard it quite often and, crazy and 
ridiculous as this is going to sound, I actually heard one or two people use 
the term "blink pole" for the long white cane.  Yes, I went to school with 
some strange folk indeed.

Mark Tardif
Nuclear arms will not hold you.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jasmine Kotsay
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 1:24 PM
To: Blind Talk Mailing List ; gwunder at earthlink.net
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] How do You Find your Interactions withSighted 
People?

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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