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

[Robin]

Ol'Sighty , in my opinion, usually sits back and observes me prior to 
interacting with me. There are times Ol'Sighty AVOIDS me like the 
PLAGUE, but I try to let it slide. I do NOT want to IMPOSE myself on anyone.
I take advantage of my interactions with Ol'Sighty by trying to leave 
the impression that Blind people are like everyone else, and don't 
let me be the Last TOTALLY BLIND person you give assistance to.It 
APPEARS to work because Ol'Sighty continues to go out of his/her way 
to OFFER aid, and this is the primary reason why I usually accept the 
OFFER even if I do NOT need it.
I also do NOT subscribe to either of the so called blindness 
organizations, but I do NOT fault anyone who does with few exceptions 
that I do NOT intend to go into in this EMAIL MESSAGE.

At 08:12 AM 11/13/2012, you 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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