[nagdu] update on my work question

[Tracy Carcione via nagdu]

Hector Cevigny, in "My Eyes Have A Cold Nose" opines that the most important 
thing for helping people treat a blind person as just another human being is 
imagination.  He talked about a bookie friend of his who had the capacity to 
imagine the world from another perspective than his own, and could see him 
as just a guy, not just a blind guy..  I think about this from time to time, 
and I think it has some validity.

Julie J,  congratulations on your raise and promotion!  Your workplace 
sounds a bit like mine, in that people don't much care how I get things 
done, so long as I do.

I have a friend who thinks that NFB conventions would do a lot more to 
educate the public if we all fanned out across our host city, eating at 
restaurants, going to tourist spots, doing the kinds of things other 
tourists do, instead of holing up in the hotel as many people seem to do.
Tracy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Buddy Brannan via nagdu" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] update on my work question


Hi,

Education by action is the best kind of education. Clearly, in your case, it 
works a treat. And, more importantly, they’re as educated as they need to 
be. The how and why doesn’t matter, clearly your coworkers see results, and 
that’s what they care about. That’s the best thing ever.

To tell you the truth, I think it’s possible to be *too* educated. 
Sometimes, it’s those smart people that often have the hardest time…has 
anyone else ever noticed that? Like, in school, it seemed like it was easier 
to make friends with the people who was the more average students, maybe the 
ones that weren’t really academic? Seems that those were the people who had 
more common sense going on upstairs, the ones who, if they wanted to know 
something about you, they’d just plain old ask, and otherwise everyone got 
on with life. The so-called A students, the ones in the AP classes that did 
really well, you know, the ones who would argue about why they got a 95 
instead of a 97, coincidentally, the ones I was in lots of classes with, 
just didn’t know what to do with us. This of course has absolutely nothing 
to do with education or, I guess, much of anything else, but I still wonder 
if it’s really a thing or not.
--
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: (814) 860-3194 or (814) 431-0962




On May 15, 2014, at 12:16 PM, Julie J. via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Thanks to all of you!  Yes, my employer is super supportive of me as a 
> blind person, but really it isn't a big deal.  I know this sounds kind of 
> backwards, but I have never had in depth conversations with anyone in my 
> office about Braille, guide dogs, accessible technology or general 
> blindness.  I just do what I need to to do and take care of my job 
> responsibilities and it's all good.  I guess perhaps that's education by 
> action?  I don't know.
>
> I'm not sure how educated any of them are about blindness and what guide 
> dogs do exactly.  I'm not sure that it matters to them.  I show up and get 
> stuff done, so they are happy.  It works.   I don't think the details of 
> the how are so important as the results.
> Julie
>
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