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

[Carly Mihalakis]

Good morning, Gary,

Think, ol' whity!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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