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

[Carly Mihalakis]

Evening, blind sister, Sami,

         Well, perhaps unbeknownst to certain "blind consumer 
organizations, Ol'Sighty, in many cases, doesn't care too much about 
being lectured, most people don't. Ol'Sighty, along with most people, 
however,tend toward  responding to action I.E. what he sees within 
his world:  Show him blind people doing.
and, whether he is doing it alone, perhaps, Ol'Sighty cares not.

So no, blind people working within their blind worlds, Ol'Sighty 
probably expects. I totally dig this talk, keep 'em comin'!
for today, Car At 07:37 PM 10/1/2014, Lillie Pennington via nabs-l wrote:
>Yes, on the basic level that's involves changing society's 
>perceptions about blindness. Justin also has several good points.
>
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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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