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

Desiree Oudinot turtlepower17 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 00:29:08 UTC 2011


Sorry for the double post, but oops, meant portraying in that last
post, not betraying! That's what I get for typing too fast, huh?

On 5/31/11, Desiree Oudinot <turtlepower17 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> <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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