[BlindTlk] visually impaired people not caring about personal hygine..

[Humberto Avila]

Hmm, just putting my personal two bars of soap here. Having been aware 
of a really really important party, event, networking conference, 
recreational gathering of some type or whatever is where I want to meet 
someone new, having to plan for it with a refreshing, clean-inducing 
shower, having put on nice looking polo shirts, slacks / cacky jeans, 
and nice matching dress shoes, as well as a good cologne, and my social 
outcomes aren't still what I'd like them to be. It feels like sometimes 
my skills or even my personal hygiene truly matters to me. there's still 
plenty of unaware and "ignorant" sighted people whom despite educating 
them about with everything, they don't get it. I feel like despite our 
attitudes, and impressing our colleagues and friends about how capable 
we are we get these stares, even going as far as playing the game of, 
"Oh but you don't act blind!" kind of thing. Hygiene or otherwise.

So Don, I'm hoping if, there is ever a PHD level research scholarly 
study on hygiene among the blind and low vision population, it may yield 
interesting findings just about how our society is and not necessarily 
about the blind people themselves. I would say in my experience 
interacting with countless blind ones, most people will care about their 
hygiene and even their appearance. But this is with anything, you know? 
We are a microcosm of population in general. There are sighted ones who 
will care about those things and those who apparently will not.



On 12/28/2023 11:23 AM, Don Mitchell via BlindTlk wrote:
> Has there ever been an independent study done on hygiene among blind people?
> I know that we, as a blind society, would like to believe that we are on a
> par with sighted society on how we attend, or do not attend, to our physical
> hygiene? Is it true? Does not seeing our appearance have an effect on how we
> attend to hygiene? Since hygiene effects how people are received and can
> effect the quality and outcome of social interactions I don't think the
> answer to this question should be taken lightly. Does hygiene contribute to
> the high rate of unemployment among the blind? Good topic for exploration
> and discussion.
>
>
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