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

[David Evans]

Dear All,

We use to have a saying back in the 1960's to answer those people "who did 
not want to get involved in making the World a better place."
The saying was very simple and straight to the point and says it like it is.
"If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem."
If you are staying out of it because you don't know what is right or you 
don't want to get your hands dirty and keep your sole lily white you are 
just as bad as those you condemn.
You can not make an omelet without breaking a few eggs and you can not 
change the World by standing on the sidelines.
Apathy is the fuel of failure and disinterest the biggest barrier to 
progress.

David Evans
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Wunder" <gwunder at earthlink.net>
To: "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] How do You Find your Interactions withSighted 
People?


>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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