[nabs-l] What do you think: does getting involved with a blindness organization or society involve working in the real world?

[Lillie Pennington]

Yes, on the basic level that's involves changing society's perceptions about blindness. Justin also has several good points.


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> On Oct 1, 2014, at 9:51 PM, Sami Osborne via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm just curious to know your opinions on whether you consider getting involved with a blindness organization or society such as the Federation or NABS to be going out and working in the real world?
> 
> I'm just curious because not everybody in the world is blind, so working with a company that only involves blind people is, in my opinion, not really a job where you interact with everyone out there.
> I think it should be obvious to everyone on this list that about 70 percent of the people in this world are sighted and about 30 percent includes us, the blindness community.  Sorrmy if my math is off, but that's my estimate of how much of the world contains the sighted people and how much contains us.  Somebody else on this list might have a more accurate calculation of the actual percentages.
> 
> So, in your opinion, is getting involved with a blindness group going out and working in the real world or only in your "blindness" world?
> 
> I'm looking forward to hearing your views.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sami.
> 
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