[nabs-l] Philosiphy in society

[Jedi]

Darian,

You're asking a great, yet complicated, question. I've taken a lot of 
time to think these issues through, and i've come to some pretty 
important decisions. I'm attaching some files to this message for 
anyone to read. They are papers I've produced for school, so they are 
written for scholars. Still though, I think you all can get something 
out of them as the process I went through helped me find a lot of 
peace. The first is a narrative. Although it's written as though it 
happened to me, it's actually a composit of situations I've been in 
and/or witnessed as other blind people managed them. The second three 
are theoretical in nature: they explain conflict processes as they 
relate to communications between the blind and sighted. The final paper 
is kind of an agrogate of the last three I just mensioned with an 
additional element called Honor.

One more concept needs to be added before you all start picking apart 
my work. *grin* That is the notion that it is always okay to say no to 
a sighted person who wants to be educated or who wants to help. As is 
true with any other request anyone might be presented with, we as 
humans weigh the necessity of complying to that request based on a 
number of factors including how well we know a person, any past 
exchanges we've had that might make it worthwhile to make yet another 
exchange, the amount of power each of you have in the situation, 
whether or not you want something from that person, etc. All of my work 
assumes that dealing with blindness issues is no different than dealing 
with other issues all people face, just in a different and much more 
potent context.

So here you go folks. Happy reading if you are so interested. These are 
just my thought processes backed by what I larned during my senior year 
of undergraduate school regarding conflict and intercultural processes 
as they relate to blindness.

Respectfully,
Jedi

Original message:
> Hi all,
>   So, I was thinking about how  what we learn in the NFb can translate
> into society.  For example,  socializing, we want to be considered as
> "normal" as the next person, but often we are asked the  general
> blindness related questions, not  ina bad way, but because people
> don't understand something and want to know  what we do.  How do
> people deal with this?  Say, you really had a long day, and the last
> thing  you want to hear is something related to blindness, but the
> grammys were on, and you wouldn't mind talking about  how a certain
> pop star finally didn't win something *smile*.
>  Or,  you have the weel-meaning person trying to direct you somewhere,
> when you've made it clear  that you do not require said assistance?
> How do you  handle this without getting  fairly annoyed and/or taking
> it to be more serious than it's  simply ment.   I know we talk about
> the  importance of educating the public, yet   the equil importance of
> stressing normality.   How have people handled  these ideas?  How does
> one  operate keeping in mind the ideas of both living one's life and
> keep in mind the next blind person that comes along?

>     Darian

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