[nabs-l] Speak to me

RJ Sandefur joltingjacksandefur at gmail.com
Mon Nov 21 21:12:43 UTC 2011


I was looking in the woman's direction. RJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lea williams" <leanicole1988 at gmail.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
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Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Speak to me


> When I first moved to North carolina about 3 and a half years ago, I
> would go places with my family a lot. The people would speak to my
> family instead of me, I would speak up and reply as if they had spoken
> to me and most of the time they got the point and switched their focus
> on me. My family got in the habbit of shaking their heads and pointing
> at me to say "talk to her not me". You have to look in their direction
> or they feel like they are talking to a wall and willspeak to who ever
> is making eye contact. I do my best to make eye contact, of course it
> is hard when you can't see but I at least get close enough to get my
> point across that I am the one to speak to. I did however had an eye
> doctor who just would not get it and would keep talking to my step mom
> instead of me. I nearly fell out of my seet trying to lean forward to
> get my face between the line of site between him and my step mom that
> he so insistantly tried to keep. Another second longer I was about to
> say something to him. Most times I don't have to explain to them to
> speak with me instead of the people I might be with, so I try to give
> them a bit of time to ketch on. I am a it pussy and will perject in
> when I feel like they should be talking to me and since I have had eye
> site before, I am good at giving dirty looks when I am not happy. My
> aunt and cousins who raised me are very dramatic with non verble
> comunications so I think I picked up a lot of that, It seems to work
> well when the sited fails to get the point. For most however, I try to
> be as polite as possible. I realize that they most likly have never
> had to be confronted by someone like me, some of the other blind
> people here has wives and mothers who do a lot of talking for them. So
> I am having to reteach them a lot of better interaction skills with
> the blind.
>
> On 11/21/11, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> good response on her part.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: RJ Sandefur
>> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 2:50 PM
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> Subject: [nabs-l] Speak to me
>>
>> I was in Pizza hut, and the lady came to take my order. She turns to my
>> sister and asks, "And what does he like to eat this evening?" I said, 
>> "I'd
>> like a personal pan pizza please." My nine year old niece said, "Uncle RJ 
>> is
>> blind not a baby!" RJ
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