[nabs-l] Any Suggestions for Blindness Literature?

[Elizabeth Mohnke]

Hello All,

I recently posted a question about how to go about dealing with a professor who thinks I am the most amazing person simply because I happen to be blind. I really appreciate all the suggestions that everyone gave me about how to go about handling this situation. Since I did not have time to meet with my professor last week, I sent him an email telling him that I was beginning to feel a bit uncomfortable in his class due to the fact that he either feels uncomfortable or unsure about how to communicate and interact with me as a blind student.

However, I am not quite sure how well this email helped the situation as I was a bit frustrated with other things when I wrote my email to him. As a result of my stress and frustration, I am not quite sure how well I came across in the email I sent my professor last week. But hopefully it serves as a good starting point in being able to talk to my professor about this situation.

I am sure he is simply curious about how I do things as a blind person. It  sounds as though he has not had too much interaction with other blind people. I would really like to be able to sit down with him and answer all his questions about how I do things as a blind person. However, my schedule is rather busy right now, and I feel as though I simply do not have the time to sit down with him and answer all his questions. Since I do not have the time to sit down and answer all his questions about blindness, I thought perhaps I could just simply share some articles on how blind people do things as they live independent lives.

However, I must admit, it has been a while since I have read through NFB literature. So I am simply curious, what articles would you share with someone who had questions about how you do things as a blind person if you did not have the time to sit down and talk to them about how you do things as a blind person? Are there any good articles to share that would summarize how blind people do things as a blind person without going too in-depth on a particular skill that blind people use in their daily lives? I can think of a couple of good articles as it relates to blindness philosophy, but I do not think an article on blindness philosophy works for someone who is rather curious about how blind people do things as blind people living independent lives. So any suggestions on articles I could share with my professor would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Elizabeth