[humanser] Drivers license requirement for employment

[Carly Mihalakis]

Good morning,

It would seem to me that, inflicting a shocked state on to someone 
who interacts with you most likely will reduce conditions to that 
which many blind people resent, being seeing only for blindness and 
not for the flaming and colorful people, we often are.
I believe in blindness being so mythic amongst sighted cultures that, 
among the things of which we are without is a presumed entitlement of 
anonymity, blindness forever being a presence I came to know in 
deviance class, a master status or the single characteristic beyond 
anything else by which you are identified I.E Black president, gay 
teacher, deaf Ms. America among many others. It could be a sort of game.

So, I do digress, it seems honest just to tell a potential employer 
this identifying characteristic of your's. After all, would you have 
a problem disclosing that you might be a blond, a redhead or Chinese?
for today, Car

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>Sandy
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>From: "JD Townsend" <43210 at Bellsouth.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 10:29 PM
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>Subject: Re: [humanser] Drivers license requirement for employment
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>>Sadly some folks are prejudice on the outset.  I took a 2 hour trip 
>>for an interview once and the interviewer told me at the door that 
>>the job was too intense for me, without even letting me 
>>speak;  seems my white cane said all she wanted to know.
>>
>>I learned after many interviews that I had to compete not as a 
>>blind applicant, but as the best applicant.  Some people tell an 
>>interviewer on the outset that they are blind or visually impaired, 
>>but I have never seen the wisdom in this.  I find that the initial 
>>hand-shake and the walk down long corridors to the interview room, 
>>finding my seat and addressing the real issues of the job have 
>>served me well.  When I have taken this attitude, ignoring my 
>>blindness as an issue, the interviews have gone much better.  I 
>>tell the interviewer that I dislike paperwork, but that I sleep 
>>much better when it is up to date;  should they ask me how I do it 
>>I say that I have PC add-ons that have served me well in the past 
>>and that it should not be a problem with whatever system they are 
>>using.  Should they ask about transportation I tell them that I got 
>>here on my own and on time and that I should have no problem.  It 
>>isn't my job to explain about adaptive equipment or transportation, 
>>just that I can do the job, then I re-focus on my strengths as a 
>>clinical social worker and how I might fit my skills into serving the agency.
>>
>>If we allow disability or adaptations to become a focus of an 
>>interview instead of our skills and work ethic we have no chance 
>>for employment.
>>
>>Just my opinion, sorry for the lecture.
>>
>>JD
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