[blparent] People are funny

[Dianna Alley]

I do not care about stuff like that sometimes they are joking and people 
take life too serious yeh you have those that are not joking but what do 
those people know I worry about things I need to worry about.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com>
To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] People are funny


> You know, you don't have to explain. It's your information and your life 
> it doesn't mean you have to explain it to anybody.
> Your neighbor sounds sweet and well meaning.  It also sounds like she's 
> aware of how she may come cross and is working on that.
> If I can find it, I'll send the quotes from sports casters and coaches. 
> I'm sure what they *meant* to say sounded fine, but it just sounds wrong 
> to everybody else.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jeri 
> Milton
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 9:34 PM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] People are funny
>
> They're actually very nice neighbors, but the wife tends to say things and
> then apolagise for what she said later. I think maybe she might have a 
> screw
> loose or something. Like back when we first moved in here I was pregnant
> with Katlyn, she saw my husband out front. He told her that we were
> expecting a baby soon and her reply was "Oh, I thaught maybe she was
> pregnant, but sometimes it's hard to tell with bigger girls." Then she
> apolagised quickly.
>
> When she asked if I was pretending to watch Dylan, I just smiled and said 
> Oh
> Bev I'm watching him. Then she asked me if I was ever going to tell him 
> that
> I couldn't see him. Dylan was four years old at the time. I told her that
> I've never hid it from him and that he's known since he was born. It's 
> just
> funny to me how people are really bewildered over the fact that we as 
> blind
> people can watch our children just as they can, if not better at times. I
> don't know if I'll ever get use to it. Do comments from other people 
> bother
> any of you? I get so tired of explaining myself to them.
>
> Jeri
> Jeri
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jodie and
> Kahlan
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 12:35 PM
> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [blparent] People are funny
>
> Those remarksw would annoy me, too, especially the part about pretending 
> to
> watch. In the only way you can, you are watching him.
>
> --
> Hugs from Jodie and kahlan
> "Only a fool walks into the future backward."
> Terry Goodkind
>
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