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

Wed Nov 14 04:32:14 UTC 2012

My friends are my friends. I pay no attention to their visual acuity or lack thereof. If you are confident and don't make a big deal out of blindness you should handle any situation. Bring food into work when appropriate. It is a good ice breaker. 

Constance Canode 
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On Nov 13, 2012, at 9:43 PM, "Gloria Whipple" <glowhi at centurylink.net> wrote:

> I don't worry about it
> 
> Hahaha!
> 
> Gloria Whipple
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike
> Freeman
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 19:31
> To: 'Blind Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] How do You Find your Interactions withSighted
> People?
> 
> True enough. But I didn't know I was looking for interactions with sighted
> people. Therefore, I don't have a method to find them. (har)
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David Evans
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 6:42 PM
> To: gwunder at earthlink.net; Blind Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] How do You Find your Interactions withSighted
> People?
> 
> 
> 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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