[nabs-l] Social Stuff

[Beth]

Right on.  But how should parents go about it?  WHat about the overuse
of punishment for moving one's head back and forth or rocking and eye
poking?  WHat about the dangerous consequence of mental illness as a
result of the lack of sociality and social skills?  ANy thoughts on
those?
Beth

On 9/24/09, Sean Whalen <smwhalenpsp at gmail.com> wrote:
> It may be beside the immediate point, but is certainly relevant. Attributing
> the inappropriate drawings to the fact that the roommates were gay is
> completely absurd. Sure, the inappropriate content may have been different
> inappropriate content had the roommates been heterosexual, but it would have
> been inappropriate content just the same.
>
> As a minority population that is often discriminated against, misunderstood,
> and mischaracterized, I find it odd that some among us think it respectable
> to do the same to other groups.
>
> Believe me, there are plenty of college apartments with heterosexual content
> that would offend many scrawled on their walls.
>
> It bothered me when I first saw that message, but I decided to let it go.
>
> Now that we're here, Meghan is 100% right. Here here and two thumbs up!
>
> More to the immediate point, I don't think filthy apartments are any
> indicator of social awkwardness or akin to eye poking, rocking, etc. While I
> agree wholeheartedly with Arielle on the issue, I think it is also useful to
> realize that social norms apply to the blind as well as the sighted. I don't
> think it holds water to say that sighted people have their own idiosyncratic
> things about them so it is OK for blind people to rock. Social norms matter.
> How you look and present yourself matters. It is certainly inappropriate to
> label every undesirable behavior of a blind child, e.g. obstinacy or
> egocentricity as a symptom of social dysfunction, but I think it useful and
> appropriate for parents to discourage behaviors, commonly called blindisms,
> which only serve to perpetuate societies views on blindness and to further
> set apart the blind individual as different.
>
> Sean
>
>
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