[il-talk] Frustrated

[David Meyer]

I realize that one doesn't always have time to do this but I remember a time
when something similar happened to me.  I was working evenings in a group
home for developmentally challenged adults and was on my way to the train.
As I was walking a car pulled along along side of me while I was walking and
hit his horn.  For some reason, I stopped.  A gentleman said quite
confidently, "Do you know you are going in entirely the wrong direction?"  I
had some time so I decided to have him examine his own question.  I
responded that perhaps he might be right, but perhaps I might be right.  I
then asked him how it was he thought I might be going in the wrong
direction.  He was quite uncomfortable when telling me that I belonged in
that big building that was a block or so behind us.  I asked him how it was
I might belong there.  He said that the building was for special people and
that I was a special person and.... I cut him off at that point telling him
that I was familiar with that building, that I was a staff member there,
that I was leaving work and that I was on the way to the train.  I then
asked him again if I was entirely wrong with the direction I was going.
Without saying another word, he drove off.  I'm sure he was uncomfortable,
but I truly felt on top of the world.  It might not have been right of me
but I wanted for him to feel for just awhile, the irritation we feel at
members of the general public almost daily. 

-----Original Message-----
From: il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Francisco Chang
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 1:28 PM
To: Deborah Kent Stein; NFB of Illinois Mailing List
Subject: Re: [il-talk] Frustrated

As a sighted person I would find it extremely rude if someone grabbed me me
if I seemed lost. It is ridiculous that many sighted people think that it is
all right to grab a blind person because they are trying to help. A sighted
stranger would not like it if a blind person grabbed his/her arm because
he/she seemed lost. 

Francisco Chang, RN, BSN, AACC, CCRN, CVRN, EP Lab, Swedish Covenant
Hospital, Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 26, 2012, at 10:43 AM, "Deborah Kent Stein" <dkent5817 at att.net>
wrote:

> 
> 
> When they ask me if I know where I'm going, sometimes I say, "Yes - do
you?" I love Mary Ellen Gabias' response to people who grab her: "Oh, can I
help you?"
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patti Chang" <pattichang at att.net>
> To: "il-talk il-talk" <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 7:55 AM
> Subject: [il-talk] Frustrated
> 
> 
>> 
>>> A guy just stopped me along Higgins. He watched me walk at full speed
for two blocks and still assumed I was lost.
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