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

[Carly Mihalakis]

Good morning,

Those myths will persist and abbound  whether or not you carry any cards, no?
Best thing to do is keep laughing,  so making them laugh. Resist a 
tendancy of feeling defensive.At 06:29 AM 11/13/2012, Michelle Medina wrote:
>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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