[nabs-l] Security in ourselves, acceptance in others

[Desiree Oudinot]

I still stand by what I said, however: Be cautious that the positive
image your projecting is for your own benefit, and perhaps your close
family and friends; not a world at large in which you may never be
accepted. The cold hard truth is, we will not be able to change the
minds of every person we encounter. This topic's subject, security in
ourselves, is what is most important. So, while we should strive to be
the best we can be, we are not Supermen and Superwomen, we are just
like everyone else. We love, hate, laugh, cry and all the rest like
everyone else. That is the part of ourselves we should be betraying,
our humanity.

On 5/31/11, Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
> You make a lot of sense! I'm still trying to get rid of my
> blindism, and sometimes I would get a little annoyed when Mom
> always "got on my case" about it.  She told me that, like it or
> not, the world around me is mostly sighted and wrong or right,
> they make judgments on people based on what they see.  So if we
> want to change what it means to be blind (hint hint, NFB says
> that all the time) we need to convey that positive image about
> blindness not only in what we say, but in what sighted people see
> visually from us.
>
>  Chris
>
> "A loss of sight, never a loss of vision!" (Camp Abilities motto)
>
> --- Sent from my BrailleNote
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: Daniel Romero <djdan567 at gmail.com
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> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Thu, 26 May 2011 14:27:53 -0400
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Security in ourselves, acceptance in others
>
> I think the reason why this might go down is because of the view
> that
> we get from the public in general.  Most people who are sighted
> are not
> used to a blind person.  You have to understand that one blind
> person
> being seen is a huge thing.  They're now reliable for what a
> person
> thinks about blind people.  They are the ones setting an example.
> So if
> you have a blind person who smells bad, rocks, pokes their eyes
> or
> just do not have the proper skills, the outside person will make
> an
> assumtion and say that all blind people are like that.  i'm not
> saying
> it's right for blind people to call out other blind people with a
> skills set that is lower then theirs, they're just calling them
> out
> because they are representing blind people.  It puts a bad label
> on us
> blind people who do take care of ourselves, have the skills to be
> independent and succeed.  like i said, i'm not saying it's right
> but I
> don't think us who do have the skills want to have a negative
> conotation.  Not all blind people poke their eyes, rock, hop,
> twitch,bump into everything, smell bad, do not clean their own
> clothes, or anything like that.  So to be part of a group that's
> going
> to display such a view that is negative to the public, we fall
> right
> behind that.  Am I making sense?
>
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