[Blindtlk] Use of the Term Visually Impaired

[Carly Mihalakis]

Here in Berkeley, they routinely ram that person first shit down our 
throats but I have to say, i am enucleated and therefore am not 
"impaired" by any strech of anyone's imagination, but am stone ass 
BLIND. When, in public people refer to my blind partner and I as 
"visually in paired" or "unsighted" I quickly correct them by  saying 
"no, I'm blind." People feel seem to feel so strongly about such an 
issue yet, those who conceivers of this so called People First 
lingo,to the best of my knowledge, are not themselves effected by 
anything separating them from the main stream. Oughtn't effected 
people be them deaf, blind  or  crippled, inform society as to how 
they would like to be referred?
for today, Car
>From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Christine
>Szostak
>Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 4:38 PM
>To: Blind Talk Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Use of the Term Visually Impaired
>
>Hi,
>   I suspect that actually the issue was not really with the term visually
>impaired, but rather with the order. When you say a "visually impaired
>person" the disability comes first as  opposed to saying a "person with a
>visual impairment". Thus, having the disability first is objected to, at
>least this is what I am assuming the blogger was getting at.
>Happy Friday!
>Chris
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kelby Carlson" <kelbycarlson at gmail.com>
>To: <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 4:24 PM
>Subject: [Blindtlk] Use of the Term Visually Impaired
>
>
> > Hi everybody!
> >
> > So, since I'm not aware of any incendiary debates flaring up around here
> > recently, I thought I'd bring up something I read recently that I found
> > utterly baffling.  This was on a blog thread about proper etiquette around
>
> > people with disabilities.  Towards the end, a discussion of language
> > appropriateness came up, and someone said that "visually impaired" was an
> > unacceptable term that should not be used.  Instead, one should say "with
> > a visual impairment." I have heard similar things regaring the phrasing of
>
> > a "blind person" versus "a person with blindness", but this was especially
>
> > perplexing because I can't recall ever meeting someone in my entire life
> > who was opposed to the term "visually impaired", at least when it was used
>
> > to describe someone who had some functional vision.  I don't have strong
> > feelings either way, but I would actually lean more to towards preferring
> > visually impaired than "partially sighted", though I think neither one is
> > more linguistically accurate than the other.
> >
> > I have encountered the issue of language surrounding disability many
> > times, and it's always been a bit strange-don't we, as blind people (among
>
> > other people with various kinds of disabilities) have higher priorities on
>
> > our lists of "things to fix in the world"? These are just my thoughts on
> > the matter.
> >
> > Kelby S.  Carlson
> >
> > Vanderbilt University
> >
> >
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