[BlindTlk] Question about societal attitudes toward blindness

[Ericka]

Mike I just do what you’re doing. I get out in public and live my life. It’s nauseating sometimes to re-educate people over and over but I guess it’s just the cross to bear. There’s really great people of vision out there that want to know and I really support of and then there’s just some of those you’ll never get through to. You just hope that they’re not your boss, landlord or God for bid your mother-in-law. LOL I’ve dated both Blind and cited and I happened to marry a blind guy in the end. It had a lot more to do with interests than the blindness. And to be honest sometimes when you have some vision and your partner is totally blind it can get kind a hairy. People with vision think that either you’re more worth talking to because they can relate to you a little bit more or for some stupid reason they think that me standing there with the cane and a little bit of vision I am his caretaker. 

I wish I had a magic wand like Harry Potter to change things. I’m just grateful that things are better than they were even 50 years ago.

Ericka Nelson

> On Apr 23, 2019, at 5:13 AM, Walker, Michael E. (UMSL-Student) via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Good morning,
> 
> Something I have been troubled by for a long time is why society sees blind people differently from people who can see. For example, I often find that when the topic of friendship or dating comes up, I still get asked questions like whether or not I have considered dating a blind person. It tells me that society still has a ways to go in learning that blindness is an inconvenience rather than something that defines us. We like to participate in the same venues as everyone else, without being seen differently. How do we overcome these challenges? The only thing I know to do is to keep doing what I’m doing: putting myself out there and meeting people. What do you guys do to overcome these challenges? How do you feel about being seen differently because you’re blind?
> 
> Thank you,
> Mike
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